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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.
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.
11. Their ignorance oft makes them unfit for hard Controversies, and yet their pride and malignity will make them forward to talk of what they understand not, and to take thence an occasion to revile those whom they dislike, and speaking evil of what they never knew, they will make up their want of knowledge, with outward Titles, pretended Authority, confident Affirmation, censorious Reproach, and violently oppressing by power the Gainsayers.
12. If any mans Conscience be awakened to call him to true Repentance, they will either tell him it is needless melancholy trouble, and give him an opiate of some flattering ⟨p. 121⟩false comfort, or preach him asleep again, with unsuitable things, or a cold, dull, formal kind of managing holy things.
12. If any mans Conscience be awakned to call him to true Repentance, they will either tell him it is needless melancholy trouble, and give him an opiate of some flattering