A26903:112
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.
1. Which side is Christ, and his Prophets, and Apostles on? Which side doth the Scripture speak for? Which way went all ⟨p. 77⟩the Saints whose names are now honoured? Were they for the fleshly or the spiritual life? Were they for the love of pleasures more than God? Doth Christ from Heaven teach you an earthly or a heavenly choice and life? Did he come to cherish sin, or to destroy it, and save us from it? You can make no doubt of this, if ever you read or heard the Bible. And
2. Which do you think were the wiser and better men, and worthy to be believed and followed? Whether Christ and all his Apostles, and Saints, that ever were in the world to this day, or the Drunkards, and Whoremongers, and Worldlings, who deride the Doctrine sent from Heaven? If there be a Heaven, is Drunkenness or Sobriety liker to be the way to it? But if indeed you will take the mocks of a swinish Sot to be wiser than God, than Christ, than Prophets, and Apostles, and all that ever went to Heaven, and their jeers to be more credible than all God's Word, what can a man say to convince such Wretches with any hope?
2. Which do you think were the wiser and better men, and worthy to be believed and followed? Whether Christ and all his Apostles, and Saints, that ever were in the world to this day, or the Drunkards, and Whoremongers, and Worldlings, who deride the Doctrine sent from Heaven? If there be a Heaven, is Drunkenness or Sobriety liker to be the way to it? But if indeed you will take the mocks of a swinish Sot to be wiser than God, than Christ, than Prophets, and Apostles, and all that ever went to Heaven, and their jears to be more credible than all God's Word, what can a man say to convince such Wretches with any hope?