A26903:239
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.
To be short, as An Ignorant, Worldly, Carnal, Proud, Unholy sort of Prelates and Priests, are and have been the great Plague of the Churches these 1300 years at least, so ⟨p. 138⟩the Skilful, Holy, Humble, Faithful, Laborious, Patient Ministers of Christ, have been and still are, the great blessings of the World; for saving Souls, promoting Knowledge, Faith, Holiness, Love and Peace, opposing Error, Pride, Oppression, Worldliness, Sensuality and Contention: diverting Gods Judgments by Faith and Prayer; forsaking all for Christ, and patiently suffering for well doing, and by Doctrine and Example teaching men to difference the Creator from the Creature, Holiness from Sin, Heaven from Earth, Soul from the Body, the Spirit from the Flesh, and helping men to prepare by a mortified heavenly heart and life, for a comfortable death and endless happiness. Of such vast importance is it to the world whether the Clergy be good or bad, skilful or unskilful, holy or worldly; and he is not a true Christian that is insensible of the difference, or thinks it small.
To be short, as An Ignorant, Worldly, Carnal, Proud, Vnholy sort of Prelates and Priests, are and have been the great Plague of the Churches these 1300 years at least, so ⟨p. 138⟩the Skilful, Holy, Humble, Faithful, Laborious, Patient Ministers of Christ, have been and still are, the great blessings of the World; for saving Souls, promoting Knowledge, Faith, Holiness, Love and Peace, opposing Errour, Pride, Oppression, VVorldliness, Sensuality and Contention: diverting Gods Judgments by Faith and Prayer; forsaking all for Christ, and patiently suffering for well doing, and by Doctrine and Example teaching men to difference the Creator from the Creature, Holiness from Sin, Heaven from Earth, Soul from the Body, the Spirit from the Flesh, and helping men to prepare by a mortified heavenly heart and life, for a comfortable death and endless happiness. Of such vast importance is it to the world whether the Clergy be good or bad, skilful or unskilful, holy or worldly; and he is not a true Christian that is insensible of the difference, or thinks it small.