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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.
§. 25. VI, Watch with great fear against Pride, Ambition and Worldly ends, in your own hearts and lives.
The roots of these mortal sins, are born in us, and lie very deep. And they not only live, but damnably reign where they are little discerned, bewailed or suspected; but woe to him that is conquered by them. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. The love of the World is enmity to God, if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, Paul spake weeping of such whose God was their Belly, who gloried in their shame, who minded earthly things, being Enemies to the cross of Christ, when their Conversation should have been in Heaven, Phil. 3.18, 19, 20. A surprise in passion even of an ugly sin, is less dangerous than such an habit of worldliness and pride. And alas how many that have escaped the Temptations of sloth and sensuality, have ⟨p. 154⟩been flattered and overcome by this. Those that have had better wits than others, and got more Learning, have thought now that preferment is their due. And if they fall into times (which have not been rare) when the malignity of Church or State Governors, it hath made it the way to preferment to declaim against some Truth, or the most Religious men, that are against a carnal sinful interest, and to revile Gods best Servants, and cry up some notion or error of their own, and magnify the worst that promote their worldly ends and hopes, alas! how doth this stream usually carry down the pregnantest wits into the Gulf of perdition:
The roots of these mortal sins, are born in us, and lie very deep. And they not only live, but damnably reign where they are little discerned, bewailed or suspected; but woe to him that is conquered by them. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. The love of the World is enmity to God, if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, Paul spake weeping of such whose God was their Belly, who gloried in their shame, who minded earthly things, being Enemies to the cross of Christ, when their Conversation should have been in Heaven,