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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.
And then when you find that you are slighted for your slight and unskilful work, your stomachs will rise against those that slight you, and so by selfishness you will turn malignant, and become Enemies to those that you take for Enemies to you, because they are not contented with your unholy trifling: And all your enmity will turn against your self, and be like Satan's against the members of Christs which is but his own self-tormenting.
And then when you find that you are slighted for your slight and unskilful work, your stomachs will rise against those that slight you, and so by selfishness you will turn malignant, and become Enemies to those that you take for Enemies to you, because they are not contented with your unholy trifling: And all your enmity will turn against your self, and be like Satans against the members of Christs which is but his own self-tormenting.
§. 15. II. The Case being so important I shall briefly conjoin your Danger and your Remedy, beseeching you as you have any care for your Souls, your Country, or the Church of God, or any thing which Faith or reason should regard, that you will soberly weigh the Counsel that I give you.
§. 15. II. The Case being so important I shall briefly conjoyn your Danger and your Remedy, beseeching you as you have any care for your Souls, your Country, or the Church of God, or any thing which Faith or reason should regard, that you will soberly weigh the Counsel that I give you.
I. The first of your dangers which I shall mention lieth in a too hasty resolving for the Sacred Ministry. Pious and prudent desires and purposes I would not discourage: But two sorts of Parents in this prove greatly injurious to the Church: First, Worldly men, that set their Sons to the Universities in order to their worldly Maintenance and Preferment, looking at the Ministry merely as a Profession or Trade to live by; Secondly, and many honest, godly Parents ignorantly think it a good work to design