A26903:187
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.
6. And if such worldly and wicked Prelates be the Ordainers, Examiners, Judges, and Institutors of the Inferior Clergy, or be their Rulers, it's easy to know what sort of men they will Introduce and Countenance, and what sort they will silence, and discourage.
6. And if such worldly and wicked Prelates be the Ordainers, Examiners, Judges, and Institutors of the Inferior Clergie, or be their Rulers, it's easie to know what sort of men they will Introduce and Countenance, and what sort they will silence, and discourage.
7. And if Lay-Patrons have the choice of Parish Pastors, and most, or many of them should be such, as Christ tells us the Rich most usually are, a worldly, and sensual sort of men, or such as have no lively sense of Heavenly things, we may easily conjecture, what men such are likely to present.
8. And if the people have any where, (as anciently) the Choice when most of them are bad, what men will they choose. Or if they have not the choice, yet they are so considerable, that their Consent, or Dissent, Love, or Hatred, will sway much with those that much live among them. But I must afterward say more of these Impediments.