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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 7
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.
A Few Objections are here to be answered, that we may the more profitably proceed.
Obj. 1. A man may have hunger or thirst in his very sleep, when he cannot refer the creature to God.
Answ. 1. We speak only of Humane, that is, Moral acts, and such Desires as are under the command of the Will. 2. A man may Habitually refer things to God, when he doth not Actually.
Obj. 2. How can a man seek God in ploughing or working in his shop, when these actions are so heterogeneous?
Obj. 2. How can a man seek God in plowing or working in his shop, when these actions are so heterogeus?
Answ. God made no creature, nor appointed any employment for man, which may not fitly be a Means to himself. As all came from God, so all have something of God upon them; and all tend to him from whom they came. There are some Means that stand nearer the End, and some are further from it; and yet the most remote are truly Means. A man that is but cutting down a tree, or hewing stones out of the Quarry, doth as much intend them for the building of his house, as he that is erecting the frame, or placing them in the building. We cannot attain the End without the remotest Means, as well as the nearest.