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A26905 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. Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1658 (1658) Wing B1233; ESTC R17065 262,204 331

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be moved to return with shame and sorrow for that which hath been formerly your glory and your joy O do not keep out the light of Conviction that you may keep up your Idols in the dark Your sin is never the less because you wilfully keep it out of sight and your danger is never the less for being unknown If you will sin in darkness you shall suffer in darkness As you have a fire of fleshly and worldly lusts within you which abhors the light of saving truth so God hath a fire of perpetual torment for you which is as far from the consolatory light of his countenance As the fire of concupiscence is dark so is the tormenting fire dark If you hate the converting light because your deeds are evil and will not by this light be made manifest to your selves Iohn 3. 19 20 21. this will be your condemnation and by this will you deprive your selves of the Glorifying light If you love Darkness who can you blame but your selves if you be cast into outer darkness And if you hate light you cannot reasonably expect to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in Light Col. 1. 13. What say you then Beloved Hearers are you willing to know your hearts or not Whether you are dead to the world and the world to you Me thinks you should be willing when you see the Question is as great as Whether you are Christians indeed or not and as great as Whether you are in a state of salvation or not Me thinks you that naturally love knowledge and would be at some pains to know all that 's about you in the world should not be unwilling to know your selves and specially so great a matter by your selves as Whether you are the heirs of salvation or damnation for in the issue it is no less Especially when your disease is such as must be cured by the Light if ever it be cured You cannot lament your worldliness and sensuality you cannot lament your disaffectedness to God and intolerable neglects of him till you find them out You cannot betake you to Christ for the pardon of this sin till you have discovered it A sin unseen will never humble you and break your hearts nor fit them for Christ to bind them up If you see not that the world is yet alive in you you will not apply the Cross for the crucifying of it nor have recourse to a Crucified Christ for that End Moreover it is the Nature of all sin and worldly vanities to seem best in the dark and basest in the Light As God and heavenly things seem best in the greatest Light and worst in the Darkness None do set light by God and Grace and Glory but those that know them not And none do set much by worldly fleshly things but those that know them not As illumination brings in God into the soul so doth it help to cast out Satan and the world When mens eyes are opened and they are turned from darkness to light they are presently turned from the power of Satan unto God Acts 26. 18. These infernall worldly spirits cannot endure the Light They walk not by day but haunt them whom they captivate in the night of ignorance and if we do but come in upon them with Light they are gone It is the same Devil that is called The Prince of this world and the Ruler of the darkness of this world Eph. 6. 12. and this power is a power of darkness Luke 22. 53. and therefore as light immediatly expelleth darkness so if you will admit the Light of Christ it will deliver you from the power of darkness Col. 1. 13. and cause you to cast off the works of darkness Rom. 13. 12. that is your worldly fleshly works For my part I have not access to your hearts unless grace perswade you to open me the door I cannot promise to Illuminate you and go with you into the inmost rooms but I shall stand at the door and hold you the Candle by which you may see your selves what is within if you will but consent and take the pains of a through enquiry I do therefore earnestly intreate you to set up a judicature in your selves and by the Word which you have heard to try your states and let Conscience be Judge and do it speedily faithfully and effectually By this means you may prevent a sharper tryal If you are afraid of Conscience how much more should you be afraid of God Will not his Judgement think you be more dreadful then your own What madness is it to leave all to that tetrible Judgement rather then to Judge your selves for the preventing of it Believe it you shall be condemned by your selves or ●y God Yea both by your selves and by God ●…s your self-condemnation be seconded by an effectual execution of the sin which you condemn Willing or unwilling you must to the Barr either of Conscience or of God or both Come on then beloved Hearers rouze up your sleepy souls and remember that your salvation is the thing in question and therefore put it not to a wilful hazard and leave not loose a matter of such consequence But if you are men of common reason if you do not hate your selves and have not a resolved plot to damn your selves take time while you may have it and aceept the light and help that is offered you and speedily and strictly examine your own hearts Whether they are Crucified and dead to the world or not Is it so or is it not Sirs Cannot you tell If you know but what this mortification is and know but your own hearts no doubt but you may tell And if you are ignorant of either of these it is because you are shamefully negligent and have not much regarded the things that you should know For those that are willing to be acquainted with their state I shall besides the foregoing discoveries here give you a few more signs by which you may discern whether you are crucified to the world And I beseech you do what you can in the tryal as we go and make up the rest at the next opportunity when you come home and follow it on till you come to a resolution SECT XV. IT is not a perfect work of Mortification that I shall now enquire after For that no man on earth hath obtained Nor is it any high degree which only the stronger and better sort of true Christians do attain For if I convince you that you want either of these you will not much be humbled by the conviction But it is the very least and lowest measure that i● consistent with sincerity and which is in all that are heirs of heaven this is it that I shall now discover to you 1. If you are sincerely Crucified to the world it is not carna self that is your End but your ultimate End is God and Glory Can you but tell me what is the main Design of your Life Whether it
he was very Rich. And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful he said How hardly shall they that have Riches enter into the Kingdom of God Luke 18. 21 22 23 24. Read and consider Luke 12. 15. to 49. And Luke 16. 19 to the end Luke 14. 33 26 27 28. So likewise whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath he cannot be my Disciple Eph. 2. 10. We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus to Good Works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them Jam. 2. 14. What profiteth it my brethren if a man say he hath faith and have not works Can faith save him Tit. 2. 14 Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and sanctifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of Good Works 1 Tim. 6 17 18 19. Charge them that are Rich in this world that they be not high minded nor trust in uncertainty of Riches but in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy that they do Good that they be rich in Good Works ready to distribute willing to communicate Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life Heb. 13. 16. But to do Good and to Communicate forget not for with such sacrifice God is well pleased Luke 16. 9 13. I say unto you Make you friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations If ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous Mammon who will commit to your trust the true Riches ye cannot serve God and Mammon Psal. 41. 1 2 c. Blessed is he that considereth the poor the Lord will deliver him in the time of trouble c. Read Deut. 15. 7 8 9 c. 2 Cor. 9. 8 9 c. Dan. 4. 27. Lev. 23. 22. Prov. 22. 9. Prov. 28. 27. He that giveth to the poor shall not lack but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse Read Isa. 58. throughout Jam. 1. 27. Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted of the world Jam. 5. 1 2 3 5. Go to now ye Rich men weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you your Riches are corrupted and your Garments moath-eaten your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire Ye have heaped treasure together for the last daies Ye have lived in pleasure on earth and been wanton you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter 1 Joh. 3. 16 17 18. We ought to lay down our lives for the Brethren but whoso hath this worlds good and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his bowels from him how dwelleth the Love of God in him My little children let us not love in word nor in tongue but in deed and in truth Gal. 6. 6 7 9 10. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all his goods or good things Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap Let us not be we●…y in well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not As we have therefore Opportunity let us do Good unto all men especially to them who are of the houshold of faith Eph. 4. 28. Let him Labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him that needeth Mat. 10. 41 42. He that Receiveth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shall receive a Prophets reward and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous mans reward And whoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a Disciple verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward Read 1 Cor. 9. 4 5. to 16. Mat. 25. 40 45. Verily I say unto you in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of those my Brethren ye have done it unto me Verily I say unto you in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me Mat. 6. 3 4. But when thou dost alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth That thy alms may be in secret And thy father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly But this I say Brethren the time is short it remaineth that both they that have wives be as though they had none and they that buy as though they possessed not and they that use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passeth away 1 Cor. 7. 29 30 31. THE CONTENTS THe Text opened Doctrines deduced and Method propounded pag. 1. to 5 What is not this Crucifying of the world by way of Caution to avoid extreams Sect. 2. p. 5 In what respects the world must be Crucified to us 1. As the creature would be mans felicity or any part of it Sect. 3. p. 10 2. As it is set in competition with God or in the least degree of co-ordination with him p. 11. 3. As it standeth at enmity to God and his waies 4. As it is the matter of our flesh pleasing and fuel of conscupiscence 5. As an Independant or separated good without its due Relations to God p. 14. 15 Eph. 2. 12. Psal. 39. 6. 73. 20. considered p. 18 19 The different successes of sanctified and unsanctified studies and knowledge p. 17 21 The creatures Aptitude to tempt us is inseparable p. 22 Wherein the world's Crucifixion consisteth as to our acts We must use the world as it 〈◊〉 Christ Sect. 4. p. 24 More particularly 1. To esteem the world as an enemy to God and us Sect. 5. p. 31 How this enmity may be apprehended p. 32 2. A deep habituate apprehension of its worthlesness and insufficiency p. 33 3. A kind of Annihilation of it to our selves p. 35 How we must be Crucified to it The difference between this and Natural Death Sect. 6. p. 36 1. Our undue Estimation of the world must be Crucified p. 37 2. And our inordinate cogitations 3. And affections p. 39 1. Our Love 2. Desire 3. Expectations 4. Our Delight p. 43. So in the Irascible 1. Displacency and hatred c. p. 43 4. Our inordinate Seeking and Labour p. 47 Divers Objections and Questions answered Sect. 7. p. 48 How the Cross of Christ doth Crucifie the world And 1. How it is done by the Cross as suffered by Christ Sect. 8. p. 50 2. How by the same Cross believed in and considered p. 54 3. How by the Cross which we suffer in Obedience and Conformity to Christ p. 57 The point proved by experience Sect. 9.