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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.
§. 16. I. And what remedy is there for this? That which I have now to propose is, first to tell you, who they be, that should be devoted to the Ministry, and next what both Parents and you should do.
1. The work is so high, and requireth such qualifications, and miscarrying in it is of such dreadful consequence, that no youth should be resolvedly devoted to the Ministry, that hath not all these following endowments?
(1.) He must have a good natural Wit and Capacity; it should be somewhat above the ordinary degree; but it must needs be of the better rank of ordinary wits, for Grace ⟨p. 144⟩supposeth nature; and by sanctifying it turns it the right way; but doth not use to make wise Teachers of natural drones or weak headed lads, that have not wit enough to Learn. How many and how great things have they to learn and teach.