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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 26
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. Consider also that it is Christ that God hath advanced to this Glory, and it is the magnifying of him that is designed by God, and not of such as you. Its true, that he intendeth to Glorify us with Christ, and that in some participation of his Glory: But that is not by ascribing merit, and power, and wisdom to us, nor by praising us for that which indeed we have not: but it is by communicating some of the Spirit of Christ unto us, and letting us see the glory of our head: Though we may see the brightness of the Sun, and have the comfort of its rays, yet that doth not make us Suns our selves. So though we shall be where Christ is, and behold his Glory, 1 John 17. 24. and exercise our selves in his eternal praise; yet all this is but a derived dignity, communicated to us by the aspect of our Lord; and therefore it will not be our work to praise our selves but him. Rev. 5. 9. Him hath God advanced to be a Prince and a Saviour, Acts 5. 31. and made him head over all things to the Church, Eph. 1. 22. and delivered all things into his hand, 1 Joh. 13. and given him all power in heaven and earth, Mat 28. 18. & a name above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, Phil. 2. 9, 10. and to this end he dyed, rose and revived, that he might be Lord of the dead and of the living, Rom. 14. 9. So that the exalting of the Redeemer is a more principal end in the work of Redemption then our exaltation, and in ours we are passive, receiving the dignity which from him is communicated to us; but Christ with his Father is the fountain and end of his own glory.
2. Consider also that it is Christ that God hath advanced to this Glory, and it is the magnifying of him that is designed by God, and not of such as you. Its true, that he intendeth to Glorifie us with Christ, and that in some participation of his Glory: But that is not by ascribing merit, and power, and wisdom to us, nor by praising us for that which indeed we have not: but it is by communicating some of the Spirit of Christ unto us, and letting us see the glory of our head: Though we may see the brightness of the Sun, and have the comfort of its raies, yet that doth not make us Suns our selves. So though we shall be where Christ is, and behold his Glory, 1 Iohn 17. 24. and exercise our selves in his eternal praise; yet all this is but a derived dignity, communicated to us by the aspect of our Lord; and therefore it will not be our work to praise our selves but him.