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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 17 › 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.
4. If the world be Crucified to you, How comes it to pass that you are so tenderly sensible of every loss or dishonour that doth befall you? If you are wronged in your estate, what a matter do you make of it? If a man should deprive you but of a few pounds, you can hardly put it up; but you must go to Law for it, or you must seek revenge? Or if you pass it by, you think you have done some great meritorious act. If one slander you, or dishonour you, how sensible are you of it? How it sticks upon your stomachs, as if you had lost your treasure? Death is not sensible. If you were Dead to the world, and the world to you, these things would all seem smaller in your eyes; and you would have more ado to remember them then now you have to forget them. You could not be so sensible of a loss or an injury, if you were not too much alive to the world. And if you be Poor, what an impatient complaining life do you live? as if you ⟨p. 104⟩wanted your treasure or your God? and if you grow rich or gain, how glad are you? Were you Dead to the world, and the world to you, you would be more indifferent to these matters, and Poverty and Riches would not seem so much to differ as now they do: but Godliness with contentment, which is Profitable to all things, would seem to you the Great Gain, 1 Tim. 4. 8. & 6. 6.
4. If the world be Crucified to you, How comes it to pass that you are so tenderly sensible of every loss or dishonour that doth befall you? If you are wronged in your estate, what a matter do you make of it? If a man should deprive you but of a few pounds, you can hardly put it up; but you must go to Law for it, or you must seek revenge? Or if you pass it by, you think you have done some great meritorious act. If one slander you, or dishonour you, how sensible are you of it? How it sticks upon your stomacks, as if you had lost your treasure? Death is not sensible. If you were Dead to the world, and the world to you, these things would all seem smaller in your eyes; and you would have more ado to remember them then now you have to forget them. You could not be so sensible of a loss or an injury, if you were not too much alive to the world. And if you be Poor, what an impatient complaining life do you live? as if you ⟨p. 104⟩