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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 22 › Benefit 1: Benefit 1.
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.
Your Crucifixion to the world by the Cross of Christ, will be one of the clearest and surest evidences of your sincerity; And so may afford you abundant help for the conquering of your doubts, and the ascertaining your salvation. When on the contrary, an unmortified worldly mind, is the certain and common mark of a miserable hypocrite. I know a melancholy man may be so weary of the world, as to be impatient of his life: But to prefer the Lord and everlasting Life, before it, in our practical Estimation, and Resolution, and Endeavours, is the very point of saving sincerity, and the specific nature of true Sanctification: And all other marks must be reduced unto this. There is no man so spiritual and heavenly, but while▪ he is ⟨p. 205⟩here, hath a mixture of earthliness and carnality: And many a thousand that are earthly and carnal, have some esteem of God and Glory, and some purposes for them, and some endeavours after them: But it is that which is predominant that giveth the Denomination. According to that, it is that we must be called either Spiritual and Heavenly, or Carnal and Earthly men.
YOur Crucifixion to the world by the Cross of Christ, will be one of the clearest and surest evidences of your sincerity; And so may afford you abundant help for the conquering of your doubts, and the ascertaining your salvation. When on the contrary, an unmortified worldly mind, is the certain and common mark of a miserable hypocrite. I know a melancholy man may be so weary of the world, as to be impatient of his life: But to prefer the Lord and everlasting Life, before it, in our practical Estimation, and Resolution, and Endeavours, is the very point of saving sincerity, and the specifical nature of true Sanctification: And all other marks must be reduced unto this. There is no man so spiritual and heavenly, but while▪ he is ⟨p. 205⟩here, hath a mixture of earthliness and carnality: And many a thousand that are earthly and carnal, have some esteem of God and Glory, and some purposes for them, and some endeavours after them: But it is that which is predominant that giveth the Denomination. According to that, it is that we must be called either Spiritual and Heavenly, or Carnal and Earthly men.