[Oct. 17th, 1852.]
- What is glorying? 2. What is the cross of Christ? 3. What is the world? 4. What is being crucified to the world? 5. How is this to be effected?
I. Glorying.
- To rejoice in anything as a source of good. 2. Especially as the source of honor. Men are said to glory——in themselves, in the law, in the flesh, in man, in God, in afflictions, in other men’s labors. , , , , simple accusative.
II. The cross of Christ.
- Not afflictions on account of Christ, as Luther says. 2. But Christ crucified, as in 1 Cor. 2:7, and 2:2. To glory in the cross is, 1. To rejoice in it, or in Christ crucified, as the only ground of salvation. 2. To make it the sole ground of confidence. 3. To look for honor to no other source. 4. To make it the sole instrument of success in preaching.
III. The world.
- All things seen and temporal. 2. Mankind as distinguished from the Church.
IV. To be crucified unto the world.
- Luther says: To condemn the world, as the world condemns me. The world judges me worthy of death, I judge the world worthy of death. 2. To die to, to renounce, to be indifferent to, and free from the power of the world. The world loses its power over me, and its attractions for me. It is implied that this separation is effectual and painful.
V. How is this done? By which? or by whom? Better the latter. Christ thus frees me from the world. 1. By delivering me from its condemnation. 2. By delivering me from its life, and putting his life in me. 3. By the revelation of love made in the cross, and the sense of obligation thus awakened. 4. By the connection of the cross with the revelation of eternal things.
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