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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 8 › Subsection
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.
2. Having showed you how the Cross, as suffered by Christ, doth crucify the world, we are next to show you, how that same Cross as Believed in and considered doth Crucify it to us.
2. HAving shewed you how the Cross, as suffered by Christ, doth crucifie the world, we are next to shew you, how that same Cross as Believed in and considered doth Crucisie it to us.
They that look only to the Merit of the Cross, and over-look the Objective use of it to the soul, do deceive themselves, and deprive themselves of the full efficacy of it; and deal like a foolish patient, that thinketh to be cured by commending the Medicine, or by believing that it hath virtue to cure his disease; when in the mean time he lets it lie by him in the box, and never taketh it, or applieth it to himself. The Believing Meditation of the Cross of Christ, doth give the world these deadly wounds.
They that look only to the Merit of the Cross, and over-look the Objective use of it to the soul, do deceive themselves, and deprive themselves of the full efficacy of it; and deal like a foolish patient, that thinketh to be cured by commending the Medicine, or by believing that it hath vertue to cure his disease; when in the mean time he lets it lie by him in the box, and never taketh it, or applyeth it to himself. The Believing Meditation of the Cross of Christ, doth give the world these deadly wounds.
1. It bringeth us under the actual promise of the Spirit: For though there be a work of the Spirit, which causeth us to Believe, before our actual faith in nature, yet the further gift of the Spirit for Mortification, is promised upon Condition of our faith. And upon the performance of that Condition, we have right to the thing promised. It is by faith that we fetch strength from Christ for the conquest of this and all other enemies. If we could believe, these mountains would be cast into the Sea; and all things are possible to us, if we could believe,