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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 18 › Question 6: Quest. 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.
Quest. 6.
MY next Question to you is this: How do you think you shall value the world, when it is parting from you? or at the furthest, when you are newly parted from it? If a man come to you on your death-bed, when you see that there is no hope of life, and ask your opinion then of the world, will you magnify it as now you do? When your spirits are languishing, and your heart fainting, and your body even possest with pain, if then one should ask you, Is the wealth and honours of the world such excellent things as once you deemed them? Do you now think it folly to renounce and forsake them all for Christ? What would you then say? I beseech you tell me, What think you that you shall then say? Do you think you shall then extol the world, and count them fools that will be persuaded to forsake it? Or rather will you not wish your selves, [O that I had forsaken it, before it did forsake me!] Will you not cry out, [Oh vain world! Deceitful world!] And wish you had more regarded the durable Riches? I think you will.
MY next Question to you is this: How do you think you shall value the world, when it is parting from you? or at the furthest, when you are newly parted from it? If a man come to you on your death-bed, when you see that there is no hope of life, and ask your opinion then of the world, will you magnifie it as now you do? When your spirits are languishing, and your heart fainting, and your body even possest with pain, if then one should ask you, Is the wealth and honours of the world such excellent things as once you deemed them? Do you now think it folly to renounce and forsake them all for Christ? What would you then say? I beseech you tell me, What think you that you shall then say? Do you think you shall then extoll the world, and count them fools that will be perswaded to forsake it? Or rather will you not wish your selves, [O that I had forsaken it, before it did forsake me!] Will you not cry out, [Oh vain world! Deceitfull world!] And wish you had more regarded the durable Riches? I think you will.