A26903:201
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. They will harden the profane, by pleasing them in their ignorance and ungodliness, to get them on their side.
6. They will harden the prophane, by pleasing them in their ignorance and ungodliness, to get them on their side.
7. They will be Enemies to the serious Religious people, because they discern the Vice and Hypocrisy, which they would conceal, and because they honour such as fear the Lord, while vile Persons are contemned in their Eyes, Psal. 15.4.
7. They will be Enemies to the serious Religious people, because they discern the Vice and Hypocrisie, which they would conceal, and because they honour such as fear the Lord, while vile Persons are contemned in their Eyes, Psal. 15.4.
8. They will turn their preaching against such, partly to vent their malignant Spleen, and partly to overcome them as their Enemies. Hereupon they will describe their serious piety, as Faction, Self Opinion, and Hypocrisy, and will raise jealousies against them in the minds of Rulers, and increase the Rabbles malignity and rage, ⟨p. 120⟩and will extenuate the sin and danger of the most ungodly sort, that take their own part.
8. They will turn their preaching against such, partly to vent their malignant Spleen, and partly to overcome them as their Enemies. Hereupon they will describe their serious piety, as Faction, Self Opinion, and Hypocrisie, and will raise jealousies against them in the minds of Rulers, and increase the Rabbles malignity and rage,