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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 20 › Direction 9: Direct. 9.
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.
They come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.] Mat. 13. 22. [He that received seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.] I know the men that I am now speaking of have many excellent gifts, and in other respects do seem the forwardest for godliness in the Country; but the more is the pity that men of such parts should be rotten-hearted hypocrites, and damned for worldliness after so much pains in duties: For an heathen may as soon be saved as a worldling: When they have prayed, and preached, and cried down profaneness, let them hear what the Lord saith to them, Luke 18. 22, 23, 24. and there see again their faces in that glass: [Yet lackest thou one thing: (even such an one as none can be saved without, even a Love to God and Heaven above earth:) sell all that thou hast and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come follow me: And when he heard this he was very sorrowful; for he was very rich. And when Jesus saw that he was sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the Kingdom of God?]
They come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them; for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.] Mat. 13. 22. [He that received seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choak the word, and he becometh unfruitful.] I know the men that I am now speaking of have many excellent gifts, and in other respects do seem the forwardest for godliness in the Countrey; but the more is the pitty that men of such parts should be rotten-hearted hypocrites, and damned for worldliness after so much pains in duties: For an heathen may as soon be saved as a worldling: When they have prayed, and preached, and cryed down prophanness, let them hear what the Lord saith to them, Luke 18. 22, 23, 24