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Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity,…
Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity, physic, and law, III. the sons of magistrates and rich men / by Richard Baxter.Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity, physick, and law, III. the sons of magistrates and rich men / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by T.S., 1681
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.
Qu. 7 Do you know the difference between a man and a Brute? Brutes have no capacity to think of a God, and a Saviour, and a Life to come, and to know Gods Law, and study Obedience, and fear Hell, and sin, nor reason to rule their Appetites and Lusts, nor any hope or joy in foreseen Glory: But man is made capable of all this: And can you think God maketh such noble faculties in vain? Or should we live like Brutes that have none such?
Qu. 7 Do you know the difference between a man and a Bruit? Bruits have no capacity to think of a God, and a Saviour, and a Life to come, and to know Gods Law, and study Obedience, and fear Hell, and sin, nor reason to rule their Appetites and Lusts, nor any hope or joy in foreseen Glory: But man is made capable of all this: And can you think God maketh such noble faculties in vain? Or should we live like Bruits that have none such?
Qu. 8. Do you not certainly know that you must die? All the World cannot hinder it: You must die. And is it not near, as well as sure? How swift is time? O how quickly shall we all be at our race and Warfares end? And where then is the ⟨p. 70⟩pleasure of Pride, and Appetite, and Lust? Neither the dismal Carcass, nor the dust or bones retain or taste it: And alas the unconverted Soul must pay for it for ever. And can you think that so short a brutish pleasure, that hath so sure and sad an end, is worthy the grieving of your Friends, the offending God, the hazard of your Souls, the loss of Heaven, and the suffering of Gods justice in Hell for ever. O foolish sinners! I beseech you, think in time how mad a bargain you are making. O what an Exchange! For a filthy Lust or fleshly Pleasure, to sell a God, a Saviour, a Comforter, a Soul, a Heaven, and all your hopes?
Qu. 8. Do you not certainly know that you must die? All the World cannot hinder it: You must die. And is it not near, as well as sure? How swift is time? O how quickly shall we all be at our race and Warfares end? And where then is the ⟨p. 70⟩