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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

shall be beaten with many stripes Luke 12. 47. But if your Love and Obedience be answerable to your knowledge glory rather in that 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 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 emptyed of Self in Christian humilty 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 for our righteousness Or need I advise you that you trust not in your Love and Evangelical Obedience as a satisfaction to Gods Justice or the matter of that righteousness which must answer the Law when that Love and Obedience is nothing else but a Love to him and an Obedience of him that hath satisfied for us and is become our righteousness Do I need to perswade the humble so far as they are humble not to be proud of their own graces or works or the self-denying not to glory in themselves The nature of the new creature and the annointing that is in you doth effectually teach you all these things and you have already learned them Yet because you are sanctified but in part you have still need of warning and therefore I require you that you objectively abuse not these Graces of Christ for actively you cannot seeing Grace is that as Austin defineth it qua nemo malè utitur Should you think you merit by denying merit or should you think you have somewhat to Glory in with God because you have denyed your selves and your own worthiness or should you trust in those acts as the matter of your Iustification against that Law whose nature is to distrust in all that is your own and thus to trust in Christ alone you would be guilty of the most sacrilegious robbing of Christ and of an impious abuse of the most precious gra●●s contrary to their nature and ends and of the most absurd and sensless abuse of your very Reason by palpable contradiction To conclude I now beseech you all take heed of your Glorying internally and externally Let the blinded worldling glory that he hath the world but do you glory that you need it not and can be without it and are heirs of a better world Let sensual wretches glory in the pleasing of their flesh but do you glory that you are able to deny it its desires and to please your Lord. Let the deluded ambitious ones glory in their honours but learn you to pitty them in the height of their prosperity and glory in the durable prerogatives of the Saints Let natural men glory in their health and natural Life but glory you in a readiness to die and be with Christ and in the Believing expectations of the Life everlasting Let hypocrites glory in their evading of sufferings But do you glory in tribulations and infirmities and that you are accounted worthy to suffer for Christ. Let Pharise●s glory in their superstitions and ceremonies and self-righteousness but glory you in Gospel simplicity and in the righteousness of Christ Isa. 45. 24 25. Surely shall one say In the Lord have I righteousness and strength even to him shall men come c. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory I●r 4. 2. The Nations shall bless themselves in him and in him shall they glory Let the pomp and fulness of a flattering world be the glory of the worldling But let the despised humility and hopes of true Believers in the lowest ebb of worldly accomodations be our greater glory For God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the world and things that are despised hath God chosen and things that are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence But of him are ye in Christ Iesus who of God is made unto us Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption that according as it is written He that Glorieth let him Glory in the Lord. 1 Cor. 1. 27 28 29 30 31. And believe this As Carnall Glorying is childish against our own reason and daily experience and will shortly make all that used it ashamed so the spiritual glorying of the mortified Believer is also rational and manly and will never make him ashamed but end in the perfect endless glory Fix then your resolutions with this mortified Apostle God forbid that I should Glory save in the Cross of our Lord Iesus Christ by whom the world is Crucified to me and I unto the world FINIS This was reached ●t an As●●ze at ●orcester before the ●udges and therefore here are these passages suited to that occasion Leg. E●as Epist. ad Alphons valet de annuli sui ●i●●llo Cl. Alex. Paedag. l. 2. c. 1. The whole Book is worth the reading by such

taken is wonderful There are unsearchable wonders of Love and wonders of Iustice wonders of Wisdom and wonders of Power It s the admiration of Angels the study of all Saints to know the height and breadth and length and depth and when they have all done they find that the Love of Christ surpasseth knowledge As all other knowledge of arts creatures languages is nothing in comparison of the knowledge of a Crucified Christ so our own knowledge is too narrow to comprehend the greatness and too dull to reach to the bottom of the mysterie of this design of the heavenly Love Eph. 3. 17 18 19. When Christ hath posed men and Angels with wonders in our Redemption And when we have done nothing in it our selves its easie to perceive in whom we should 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 It s 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 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 Iesus 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 principall 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 3. Consider also your Debasement in condemnation and humiliation is the designed way to the glory of your Redeemer and in it your own glory This is his honour that when the Law had condemned you he absolved you by his Ransom and when you were dead in trespasses and sins he quickned you through the riches of mercy and the great Love wherewith he loved you Eph. 2. 4 5. you must be sick before he can have the honour of curing you He will ●ay you at the feet of God in shame crying out Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called a son make me one of thy hired servants You shall call your selves foolish disobedient even mad and the greatest of sinners Tit. 3. 3. Acts 26. 11. 1 Tim. 1. 15. If therefore you begin to glory in your selves you contradict the glory of Christ and consequently hinder the glory you should receive from him You have but the benefit of receiving his alms and therefore must stand in the posture of beggars but it is he and not you that must have the honour of giving it You must be Nothing that he may be All or else you will be Nothing indeed You must not Live but Christ in you or else you will not Live indeed Gal. 2. 20. You must be found in him not having your own Righteousness which is of the Law or works but the Righteousness which is of Christ by faith or else you will lose your selves and your righteousness Phil. 3. 9. And thus the just being dead in themselves must live by faith but if any be lifted up his soul is not upright in him Heb. 2. 4. Christianity therefore teacheth you to glory in Christ and not in your selves 4. Consider it is Christ and not you that revived your souls when you were dead in sin and Crucified you to the world to which you were alive You might have rotted and stunck in the grave of sin if he had not called you out You saw the spectacles of Mortality before your eyes and you could say The world is vain before But yet it lived in your hearts till power came from Christ to kill it Words were but wind you would never have let go your bone of present worldly pleasure if Christ had not taken it out of your jaws by shewing you the hopes of greater things Long might you have heard Sermons and yet have been carnal still if his Spirit had not entered into your hearts Seeing then it is he that hath done the cure so far as it ●is done it is in him that you must glory and not in your selves 5. Consider if yet he should deal with you according to your deservings the remnants of your sin would bring you to damnation If yet he did not hide your nakedness and by his intercession procure you a daily pardon you would every day be your own distroyers nay you would not be an hour longer out of hell If he did not bring you before his Father you could have no access to him in any of your addresses Your sacrifices would be cast back into your faces as dung if the merit of his sacrifice made them not accepted So that by this you may see in whom you must still glory 6. Now you have a little grace you cannot keep it of your selves Now you are made alive you cannot keep your selves alive If you be not preserved by him that did revive you and kept by his mighty power to salvation and if he be not the finisher of your faith who was the author of it how speedily how certainly would you prove apostates and undo all that hath been so long a doing If then you stand not on your own legs but are carryed in his arms you may see in whom it is that you should glory 7. Nay more if you were left to your selves but to resist one temptation it would bear you down You now think of many sins with an holy scorn But the filthyest of those sins would become your pleasure if you were forsaken by Christ. You now look on whoredom and gluttony and drunkenness and ambition as dirt and dung But if Christ should forsake you this dung would you feed upon and as dogs you would eat up the filthyest vomit that ever you did disgorge your selves of and as swine you would choose that mire for your bed and rest in it till hell awaked