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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 21 › 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.
Quest. 6. Also I would know, Are you certainly acquainted with their particular estates? and do you know how able they are to give? If you do not, you are no competent Judges. How oft ⟨p. 197⟩have I known men reproached for unmercifulness, and for not being more liberal, when they have been so low in their estates, that they were not able to maintain their families, or to pay every man his own: and yet they that knew not this did back-bite them as covetous.
Quest. 6. Also I would know, Are you certainly acquainted with their particular estates? and do you know how able they are to give? If you do not, you are no competent Judges. How oft ⟨p. 197⟩have I known men reproached for unmercifulness, and for not being more liberall, when they have been so low in their estates, that they were not able to maintain their families, or to pay every man his own: and yet they that knew not this did back-bite them as covetous.
Quest. 7. Furthermore I would know; Are you sure it is not Satan within you that prompteth you to these accusations? Hear my evidence and judge. He is called in Scripture the Accuser of the Brethren, Rev. 12. 10. and he is described to be a Lying malicious spirit. If therefore it be a Lying, malignant, malicious spirit, then certainly it is the spirit of Satan.
And 1. We have cause to believe that it is a Lying spirit by these evidences following.