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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. 9, If the Devil or deceivers should make you doubt whether there be any Judgment and Life to come, should not the mere possibility and probability of such a day and life, be far more regarded by you than all fleshly pleasure, which is certainly short and base. Did you ever hear a man so mad as to say, I am sure there is no Heaven or Hell for Souls? But you are sure that your flesh must not in a dark grave: you are sure that death will quickly put an end to all that this world can afford you: House and Land, and all that now deceive poor worldlings, will be nothing to you: ⟨p. 71⟩No more than if you had never seen them, save the terrible reckoning that the Soul must make. Sport, and Mirth, and Meat, and Drink, and filthy Lusts are ready all to leave you to the final Sentence of your Judge: And is not even an uncertain hope of Heaven more worth than certain transitory Vanity? Is not an uncertain Hell to be more feared and avoided▪ than the forsaking of these certain trifles and deceits? Much more when God hath so certainly revealed to us the life to come.
Qu. 9, If the Devil or deceivers should make you doubt whether there be any Judgment and Life to come, should not the meer possibility and probability of such a day and life, be far more regarded by you than all fleshly pleasure, which is certainly short and base. Did you ever hear a man so mad as to say, I am sure there is no Heaven or Hell for Souls? But you are sure that your flesh must not in a dark grave: you are sure that death will quickly put an end to all that this world can afford you: House and Land, and all that now deceive poor worldlings, will be nothing to you: ⟨p. 71⟩No more than if you had never seen them, save the terrible reckoning that the Soul must make. Sport, and Mirth, and Meat, and Drink, and filthy Lusts are ready all to leave you to the final Sentence of your Judge: And is not even an uncertain hope of Heaven more worth than certain transitory Vanity? Is not an uncertain Hell to be more feared and avoided▪ than the forsaking of these certain trifles and deceits? Much more when God hath so certainly revealed to us the life to come.