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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.
And who is the gainer by all this? No one in the World; unless you will call it the Devil's gain, to have his malicious, cruel Will fulfilled: And sure the pleasing the Devil and a fleshly Lust, Fancy, or Appetite, can never compensate all your losses, nor comfort you under the sufferings, ⟨p. 83⟩which you wilfully bring upon your selves.
Young Men, the reason I thus deal with you by way of question is, that I may, if possible, engage your own thoughts in answering them: For I find most are aptest to learn of themselves: And indeed without your selves, and your own serious thoughts, we cannot help you to true understanding. He that readeth the wisest Lecture to Boys or Men, that take no heed to what is said, yea, or that will not make it their own study to understand and remember, doth but cast away his labour. It's hard saving any man from himself; but there is no saving any man without himself, and his own consent and labour. If you will but now take these twenty questions in secret into your serious thoughts, and consider of them, till you can give them such an answer as reason should allow, and as you will stand to before God, when the mouth of all iniquity shall be stopped, I should not doubt but you will reap the benefit.
Young Men, the reason I thus deal with you by way of question is, that I may, if possible, engage your own thoughts in answering them: For I find most are aptest to learn of themselves: And indeed without your selves, and your own serious thoughts, we cannot help you to true understanding. He that readeth the wisest Lecture to Boys or Men, that take no heed to what is said, yea, or that will not make it their own study to understand and remember, doth but cast away his labour. It's hard saving any man from himself; but there is no saving any man without himself, and his own consent and labour. If you will but now take these twenty questions in secret into your serious thoughts, and consider of them, till you can give them such an answer as reason should allow, and as you will stand to before God, when the mouth of all iniquity shall be stopt, I should not doubt but you will reap the benefit.