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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 24: Use 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.
2. Is Christ ever the less Christ, because he dwells in the hearts of Believers? Eph. 3. 17. And will you pretend to honour Christ without you, and deny him his honour within you, even because he is within you? Yea and will pretend that it is for the honour of Christ thus to dishonour him? and tell men that they ⟨p. 228⟩deny or overlook it, because they admire him within them, as well as without them? If Paul say, [I have laboured more abundantly then they all▪ and add when he hath done, [Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me; and by the grace of God I am what I am; and his Grace which was bestowed on me was not in vain,] 1 Cor. 15. 10. will you tell him that he exalteth himself against Grace? No: but he exalteth Grace in himself. Paul travailed in birth of the Galatians till Christ-were formed in them, Gal. 4. 19. And must not he and they observe and honour Christ •n them after all this travail, If we glory that we [are Crucified with Christ, and that we live] we always add or understand [yet not we, but Christ liveth in us, and the life which we now live in the flesh, we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself for us, Gal. 2. 20.] And is it a dishonour to Christ to acknowledge him in us, and to say that we Live by him?
2. Is Christ ever the less Christ, because he dwels in the hearts of Believers? Eph. 3. 17. And will you pretend to honour Christ without you, and deny him his honour within you, even because he is within you? Yea and will pretend that it is for the honour of Christ thus to dishonour him? and tell men that they ⟨p. 228⟩deny or overlook it, because they admire him within them, as well as without them? If Paul say, [I have laboured more abundantly then they all and add when he hath done, [Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me; and by the grace of God I am what I am; and his Grace which was bestowed on me was not in vain,]