The Crucifying of the world, are unfan&ified. 2. That he efteemeth it but as adead and con- temptibk thing. So that this phrafe exprefreth both its difabling, andhis pofirive contempt of it. The other phrafe that Paul was [ crucified to the World ] loth lignifie on the other fide, i. That his eflímation and affe&ions were as dead to ; that is, he had no more efteem of it or love toit ; nor did he further mind or regard it, (fo far as he was fan&ified) then a dead man would do. 2. It fignifieth that he was allo contemned by worldlymen, and lookt on as his Cruci. fled Lord was, whom he preached. This is laid to be done [ by Chrift] or [ by his Croft : ] For the relative may relate to either antecedent. But I fhould rather refer it to the later,though in fenfe the difference is fmall; becaufe the one is implyed in the other. The further explication of theNature of this Crucifixion, and the influence that Chrift and his Crafs have thereinto, and how they are the Caufes of it,muft be further fpoke to in the handling of tie Do&rines, which are as followeth. SECT. II. Do&. i. HE carnali Glorying of Worldly is achingdetefled and renounced by h paints. Do. 2. ACrucified Chrift, or Chrifl andhis C f is he Glory_ ing of the Saints. ti Do& 3. The World it crucified to the Saints, and they to the world. Doti. q,.. It is by a Crucified Chrif1, or byChrifl andhis Croftthat this is done. But becaufe our limited timewill not allow us to handle each of thefe diftin&ly, I (hall reduce them all toone Generali Do- Brine, which is the fenfe of the Text. Doti. PrRE World is Crucified to the Saints; and the Saints are Crucified to the World, by the Croft of Chrift ; áandtherefore in it alonemn(l they Glory, abhorring the Glorying of carnall wen. THE
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