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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
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(3.) And because being taken for Wise Learned men, and Preachers of Truth, and Teachers of others, and reprovers of Errors, their Reputation is much concerned in it, and their unhumbled Souls, which look all ⟨p. 132⟩others should Assent and Consent to their prescripts, will hardly be brought to confess sin and Error; but will sooner (as Papists) plead-infallibility, or conclude as some Councils have done that a Lay man must not accuse a Clergy man, be he never so bad. Repentance is hard to all men of carnal interest, but to few more than to an unhumbled Clergy man.
(3.) And because being taken for Wise Learned men, and Preachers of Truth, and Teachers of others, and reprovers of Errors, their Reputation is much concerned in it, and their unhumbled Souls, which look all ⟨p. 132⟩others should Assent and Consent to their prescripts, will hardly be brought to confesse sin and Errour; but will sooner (as Papists) plead-infallibility, or conclude as some Councils have done that a Lay man must not accuse a Clergy man, be he never so bad. Repentance is hard to all men of carnal interest, but to few more than to an unhumbled Clergy man.
And 2. Whoever accuseth or reproveth them of sin, will be represented as an Enemy to the Church, & a dishonourer of his Ghostly Fathers, and one that openeth their nakedness which he should Cover: and so their Ulcers are as a noli me tangere; and fret as a Gangrene unremedied.
And 2. Whoever accuseth or reproveth them of sin, will be represented as an Enemy to the Church, & a dishonourer of his Ghostly Fathers, and one that openeth their nakedness which he should Cover: and so their Ulcers are as a noli me tangere; and fret as a Gangreen unremedied.