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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.
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, ⟨p. 120⟩and will extenuate the sin and danger of the most ungodly sort, that take their own part.
9. They will shame their Office and Profession, by base mutability, turning with the Time and Tide, as Temptations from their worldly Interest lead them.
10. They will by their making light of Godliness, and by the scandal, or unholiness of their own Conversations, make the vulgar believe that Godliness is either a cheat, or a matter of mere words, and outward observances, and to be of the Religion of their Rulers, and a thing to keep men in some awe and order in a worldly Life.
10. They will by their making light of Godliness, and by the scandal, or unholyness of their own Conversations, make the vulgar believe that Godliness is either a cheat, or a matter of meer words, and outward observances, and to be of the Religion of their Rulers, and a thing to keep men in some awe and order in a worldly Life.