The crucifying of the world

For except your righteousness exceed the righteousness even of Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the Kingdom of heaven, Mat. 5. 20. Remember that you live among the blind: and if you stumble and fall, you know not how many will fall upon you; and if you break but your shins, they that fall upon you may break their necks; and if you rise again, you are not sure that they will rise. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims (in this world) abstain from fleshly lusts ⟨p. 194⟩which war against the soul; having your conversation honest among the Gentiles (the unbelievers and profane) that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation, 1 Pet. 2. 11, 12. For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men, 1 Pet. 2. 15. Finally brethren, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous; not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise blessing, knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing, 1 Pet. 3. 8, 9. And so walk, that if any obey not the word, they may yet be won by your exemplary conversation, 1 Pet. 3. 1. As you hear more then others, so do more then others, that it may appear you build upon a rock, Mat. 7. 24, 25. And as the book of God is much in your hands and mouth, so remember that whoso looketh into the perfect Law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. For Pure Religion, and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep your selves unspotted from the world, Jam. 1. 25, 27.