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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.
I have told you once already from God, that this your way is your folly, though your posterity be like to approve your sayings, because you do so much to make them of your mind, Psalm 49. 13. For though your inward thoughts be that your houses shall continue, and you hope to leave a ⟨p. 169⟩name behind you, yet man being in honour abideth not, but is like the beasts that perish: When he dyeth he shall carry nothing away, his glory shall not descend after him: though whiles he lived he blessed his soul, and men praise them that (thus) do well to themselves; yet shall they go to the generation of their fathers, and shall never see Light. Man that is in honour and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish, Vers. 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20. Though the ungodly prosper in the world and increase in riches, yet he that goeth believingly into the Sanctuary may see their end: Surely they are set in slippery places, and cast down into destruction: How are they brought to desolation as in a moment, and consumed with terrors, Psalm 73. 12, 17, 18, 19. And in that very day do all his thoughts perish, Psalm 146. 4. Then shall they eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices; for the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them, Prov. 31. 32.
I have told you once already from God, that this your way is your folly, though your posterity be like to approve your sayings, because you do so much to make them of your mind, Psalm 49. 13. For though your inward thoughts be that your houses shall continue, and you hope to leave a ⟨p. 169⟩name behind you, yet man being in honour abideth not, but is like the beasts that perish: When he dyeth he shall carry nothing away, his glory shall not descend after him: though whiles he lived he blessed his soul, and men praise them that (thus) do well to themselves; yet shall they go to the generation of their fathers, and shall never see Light. Man that is in honour and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish, Vers. 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20. Though the ungodly prosper in the world and encrease in riches, yet he that goeth believingly into the Sanctuary may see their end: Surely they are set in slippery places, and cast down into destruction: How are they brought to desolation as in a moment, and consumed with terrours,