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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.
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.
§. 7. And as all these Impediments are like to make worthy Pastors to be rare, so its certain that their naughtiness of such is like to make them exceeding hurtful, which is easily gathered from ⟨p. 117⟩1. What they will be. 2. What they will do. 3. In what manner they will do it. In all which, the effects may be probably foreseen. And,