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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 2 › Section 23
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.
SECT. XXIII.
Having thus dispatched the first part of my subject, concerning a Christians Crucifixion to the world, by Christ and his Cross: I come to the second Part concerning the Glorying of a Christian. The Judaizing Teachers did Glory carnally, even in a carnal worship, and carnal privileges, and in the carnal effects of their Doctrine on their Proselytes: but Paul that had more to Glory in then they, doth disclaim and renounce all such Glorying as theirs, and owneth and professeth a contrary Glorying, even in the Cross of Christ and his Mortification. The Observation to be handled is; that, True Christians must with abhorrency renounce all Carnal Glorying; and must Glory only in the Cross of Christ, by whom the world is Crucified to them, and they unto the world.
HAving thus dispatched the first part of my subject, concerning a Christians Crucifixion to the world, by Christ and his Cross: I come to the second Part concerning the Glorying of a Christian. The Iudaizing Teachers did Glory carnally, even in a carnall worship, and carnall priviledges, and in the carnall effects of their Doctrine on their Proselytes: but Paul that had more to Glory in then they, doth disclaim and renounce all such Glorying as theirs, and owneth and professeth a contrary Glorying, even in the Cross of Christ and his Mortification. The Observation to be handled is; that, True Christians must with abhorrency renounce all Carnal Glorying; and must Glory only in the Cross of Christ, by whom the world is Crucified to them, and they unto the world.
In handling this, I shall briefly show you, 1. What is included, or what we may Glory in. 2. What is excluded: or what we may not Glory in. For the former, here are two things expressed in the Text, in which a Christian may and must Glory: 1. The Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2. Our Crucifixion to the world hereby. So that the Positive part of the Doctrine containeth these two branches, which I shall handle distinctly, before I speak to the Negative part.