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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.
3. Have you done many works of mercy to others? Have you given all you have to the poor: have you converted many souls? Are you public mercies to the place where you live? Give God the Glory of so great a mercy: But take heed of giving the Glory to your selves And take not the outward works alone, so much as for certain Evidences of your happiness.
3. Have you done many works of mercy to others? Have you given all you have to the poor: have you converted many souls? Are you publick mercies to the place where you live? Give God the Glory of so great a mercy: But take heed of giving the Glory to your selves And take not the outward works alone, so much as for certain Evidences of your happiness.
4. Have you extraordinary experiences of Mercy, and extraordinary feelings of comfort in your selves. Rejoice in in them as Gods mercy, and give him the Glory. But remember that these are no certain Evidences of your safe condition. Many have been wonderfully saved from death, that will not be saved from hell. And many large comforts, have ended in eternal sorrows.
4. Have you extraordinary experiences of Mercy, and extraordinary feelings of comfort in your selves. Rejoyce in in them as Gods mercy, and give him the Glory. But remember that these are no certain Evidences of your safe condition. Many have been wonderfully saved from death, that will not be saved from hell. And many large comforts, have ended in eternall sorrows.
5. Have you a living faith, and a soul abounding in the Love of God, and emptied of Self in Christian humility, and exercised in holy walkings, and conflicts for Christ, and looking with hope to the Joy that is set before you? What then shall I say to you? Glory in this blessed work of Grace: this image of Christ: this heavenly nature and conversation: and this foretaste and earnest of everlasting life. But sure I need not bid you give not your very Graces the Glory due to Christ. For this were to prohibit you a contradiction: it is the nature of them all to carry you to Christ, and to cause you to deny your selves: You cannot exercise these Graces but you must do it. Do I need to desire you that you make not your own faith the matter of that Righteousness which must answer the Law, when faith it self is a Receiving of another