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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.
Sense and Appetite is born with us, and it is inordinate in our corrupted nature, and the reason and will, that should resist and rule it, are weakened and depraved; labouring ⟨p. 149⟩poor Country men are not in such danger in this as you are: your bodies are not tired and tamed with labours nor your thoughts taken up with Wants and Cares. While your bodies are at ease, and your Studies are Arbitrary, fleshly lust and appetite hath time and room to solicit your phantasies, and incline you to interrupt your Studies, and think of the matters of sensual delight, either with what to please your Appetite in eating, or of strong drinks or wine that also exhilarates, or of some needless or hurtful pastime called Recreation, Cards, Dice, Gaming, &c. or to think of Women and filthy Lusts, or to read Romances, Play-Books or other corrupting vanities. More idle Scholars far, are strongly haunted with Temptations to self-pollution, and other filthy lusts, than the poor and afflicted sort of men.
Sence and Appetite is born with us, and it is inordinate in our corrupted nature, and the reason and will, that should resist and rule it, are weakened and depraved; labouring ⟨p. 149⟩poor Countrey men are not in such danger in this as you are: your bodies are not tired and tamed with labours nor your thoughts taken up with Wants and Cares. While your bodies are at ease, and your Studies are Arbitrary, fleshly lust and appetite hath time and room to sollicite your phantasies, and incline you to interrupt your Studies, and think of the matters of sensual delight, either with what to please your Appetite in eating, or of strong drinks or wine that also exhilarates, or of some needless or hurtful pastime called Recreation, Cards, Dice, Gaming, &c. or to think of Women and filthy Lusts, or to read Romances, Play-Books or other corrupting vanities. More idle Scholars far, are strongly haunted with Temptations to self-pollution, and other filthy lusts, than the poor and afflicted sort of men.