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The crucifying of the world
The crucifying of the world by the cross of Christ with a preface to the nobles, gentlemen, and all the rich, directing them how they may be richer / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R. W. for Nevill Simmons, 1658
The Crucifying of the world, BY The Cross of CHRIST. › Part 1 › Section 6
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. So far as you are Crucified to the world, your worldly sorrows also will be Crucified. If you miss of it, you will not be grieved for that miss. For the displeasure of God which an affliction may manifest, you ought to be grieved; but not for the mere loss of the creature for it self. As God in the creature must be Loved and Delighted in, and not the creature for it self; so it is Gods displeasure manifested in the creature that must be our Grief. If a mans flesh be dead, you may cut it off, and he never feeleth you; you may cut it, or prick it, and he will not smart. And if you be dead to the world, you will not feel it as others do, when worldly things are taken from you. You will make no great matter of it.
4. So far as you are Crucified to the world, your worldly sorrows also will be Crucified. If you miss of it, you will not be grieved for that miss. For the displeasure of God which an affliction may manifest, you ought to be grieved; but not for the meer loss of the creature for it self. As God in the creature must be Loved and Delighted in, and not the creature for it self; so it is Gods displeasure manifested in the creature that must be our Grief. If a mans flesh be dead, you may cut it off, and he never feeleth you; you may cut it, or prick it, and he will not smart. And if you be dead to the world, you will not feel it as others do, when worldly things are taken from you. You will make no great matter of it.
Obj. But Grace doth not make men stocks or stupid, and therefore how can we choose but feel?
Obj. But Grace doth not make men stocks or stupid, and therefore how can we chuse but feel?
Answ. There is a feeling that is merely natural, and not subject to the command of Reason and Will: and there is a feeling which is under Reason, and is voluntary. The later only is it that I speak of, which Grace commandeth. The most gracious man may feel heat and cold, pain and weariness, hunger and thirst, as much as the worst. But the Passions of his soul, so far