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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 27
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.
9. Have you the pleasantest meats or drinks that your appetite desires? the easiest lodgings? the easiest lives? ⟨p. 250⟩the pleasantest recreations or companions? Glory not in them. These are the most desperate bait of the Devil, and the common ruin of the world. To take your fill, and please your flesh, and fit your lives to its desires, is the very way to hell, and the property of the slaves of Satan: Your sweet meat will have sour sauce. If you live after the flesh you shall die; but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the body you shall live, Rom. 8. 13. You know what became of him, Luke 16. that was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared deliciously every day. Its a heavy case to have your portion and all your good things in this life. Rejoice rather that you have conquered the desires of your flesh, and have brought it into subjection: That you are Masters of your appetites, and can eat and drink to the glory of God, and that you can deny your ease, and endure hardness as a soldier of Christ: That you have pleasanter recreations in the ways of life, and sweeter comforts then the flesh can have any: and that you have delights that are more durable, and meat to eat that others know not of. Rejoice that you have conquered the flesh your greatest enemy, and so have escaped the greatest danger. For there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, Rom. 8. 1.
9. Have you the pleasantest meats or drinks that your appetite desires? the easiest lodgings? the easiest lives? ⟨p. 250⟩the pleasantest recreations or companions? Glory not in them. These are the most desperate bait of the Devil, and the common ruine of the world. To take your fill, and please your flesh, and fit your lives to its desires, is the very way to hell, and the property of the slaves of Satan: Your sweet meat will have sowre sauce. If you live after the flesh you shall die; but if by the Spirit you mortifie the deeds of the body you shall live,