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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.
Yea some that seemed very humble and mortified when they had no great Temptation; when wealth and honour have been set before them, have lost virtue and wit before they were well aware. And worldly interest hath secretly bribed and biassed their understandings, to take the greatest Truth for Error, Duty for Sin, and Error for Truth, and Sin for Duty, and they have talked, and preached, and wrote for it, and seem to believe that indeed they are in the right; and cannot discern that they are perverted by interest, when an impartial stander by, may easily see the bias, by the current ⟨p. 155⟩of their course. And if you be servants of the flesh and the world, woe to you when your Masters turn you off, and you must receive your wages.
Yea some that seemed very humble and mortified when they had no great Temptation; when wealth and honour have been set before them, have lost vertue and wit before they were well aware. And worldly interest hath secretly bribed and byassed their understandings, to take the greatest Truth for Errour, Duty for Sin, and Errour for Truth, and Sin for Duty, and they have talkt, and preacht, and wrote for it, and seem to believe that indeed they are in the right; and cannot discern that they are perverted by interest, when an impartial stander by, may easily see the byass, by the current ⟨p. 155⟩of their course. And if you be servants of the flesh and the world, woe to you when your Masters turn you off, and you must receive your wages.
§. 26. VII. Above all therefore choose like real Christians, and take God and Heaven for your hope, your all.