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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.
But if a Stage-Hypocrite should learn the knack, or art of preaching, with affected fervency, and seeming zeal, yet, Art and Paint will not reach the power and beauty of Nature: Usually affectation bewrayeth it self; and when it is discerned, the Hypocrisy is loathed: And it faileth ordinarily, in point of Constancy: Will the Hypocrite pray always. Job 27.10. Art will not hold out like Nature: (when the motives of Gain (which is their Godliness) ceaseth, the pleasure of applause, the means will cease. Yea, usually it turneth to a malignant reviling of the serious piety which they counterfeited before, or of the persons, whose applause they did affect: For where the Hypocrisy of the Preacher is discovered, by his contrary self-condemning words, or life; and the people accordingly ⟨p. 114⟩judg of him as he is, his proud heart cannot bear it, but he turneth a malicious reproacher of those, whose applause he sought, thinking by disgracing them, to defend his own esteem, by making their censure of him incredible, or contemptible.
But if a Stage-Hypocrite should learn the knack, or art of preaching, with affected fervency, and seeming zeal, yet, Art and Paint will not reach the power and beauty of Nature: Usually affectation bewrayeth it self; and when it is discerned, the Hypocrisie is loathed: And it faileth ordinarily, in point of Constancie: Will the Hypocrite pray alwaies. Iob 27.10. Art will not hold out like Nature: (when the motives of Gain (which is their Godliness) ceaseth, the pleasure of applause, the means will cease. Yea, usually it turneth to a malignant reviling of the serious piety which they counterfeited before, or of the persons, whose applause they did affect: For where the Hypocrisie of the Preacher is discovered, by his contrary self-condemning words, or life; and the people accordingly ⟨p. 114⟩judg of him as he is, his proud heart cannot bear it, but he turneth a malicious reproacher of those, whose applause he sought, thinking by disgraceing them, to defend his own esteem, by making their censure of him incredible, or contemptible.