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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.
2. And their fleshly desires will have little restraints, but what one sin doth put upon another, or Gods controlling Providence give them. Their Reputation may make them avoid that which would be their disgrace: But secretly, they will serve their Appetites, and Fleshly Lusts. For they will not have Gods effectual Grace, nor much tenderness of Conscience to restrain them.
2. And their fleshly desires will have little restraints, but what one sin doth put upon another, or Gods controuling Providence give them. Their Reputation may make them avoid that which would be their disgrace: But secretly, they will serve their Appetites, and Fleshly Lusts. For they will not have Gods effectual Grace, nor much tenderness of Conscience to restrain them.
3. And Pride will be their very Nature. Esteem and applause will be taken for their due, and seem as necessary to them, almost as the Air, and as Water to a Fish. Ambition will be their Complexion; and will actuate their thoughts: And all these Vices will so corrupt their judgments, that there will want little more, than worldly Interest and temptations, to turn them to any Heresy, or ill Design.
3. And Pride will be their very Nature. Esteem and applause will be taken for their due, and seem as necessary to them, almost as the Air, and as VVater to a Fish. Ambition will be their Complexion; and will actuate their thoughts: And all these Vices will so corrupt their judgments, that there will want little more, than worldly Interest and temptations, to turn them to any Heresie, or ill Design.
And it is much to be feared, that their profanation of Holy things will make them worse, and more impenitent than other men. Partly, by the Righteous Judgment of God forsaking them; and partly, by the hardening of their own hearts, by long abuse of that truth which should have sanctified them: For when they have imprisoned it in unrighteousness, and long plaid, as Hypocrites, with that, which they preached and professed to believe, custom will so harden them, that their knowledge will have little power on their Hearts.