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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.
But this is the grand danger and misery of mankind, that the ignorant know not what Teachers to choose: Yea the more they need the help of the best, the less they know who those are; but I'll tell you are far as you are capable of discerning.
But this is the grand danger and misery of mankind, that the ignorant know not what Teachers to choose: Yea the more they need the help of the best, the less they know who those are; but i'le tell you are far as you are capable of discerning.
1. Usually the common report of men that are sober and impartial commendeth worthy men above others, for Knowledge and Goodness is like Light, a self discovering thing.
2. Choose not a Teacher that preferreth humane Wisdom before Divine, but one that maketh it his business to expound the Scripture, and teach you what is the Will of God, and how to please him and to be saved.