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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.
(3.) He must be one that is so far hopeful for Godliness.
1. As to be captivated by no gross sin.
2. To have a love not only to Learning, but to Religion, to the Word of God, and good Company, and Prayer, and good Books; and a settled dislike of the things, words and persons that are against these.
2. To have a love not only to Learning, but to Religion, to the Word of God, and good Company, and Prayer, and good Books; and a setled dislike of the things, words and persons that are against these.
(3.) And he must show some sense of the concerns or his soul, and regard of the Life to come, and that his Conscience is under some effectual convictions of the evil of sin, and the goodness and necessity of a godly Life. The youth that hath not these three qualifications, should not be intended or devoted to the Ministry. To devote an uncapable person, an ungodly person, to such a holy state and work is worse than of old