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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.
GOD hath made much use of honest Lawyers, as the instruments of our safety, and of the just and orderly Government of the Land.
1. They are not bred up in mere idleness and Luxury, as too many are of higher Birth, but in such diligent Study as improveth their understandings, and keepeth them from that debauchery which Idleness and fullness cherish.
1. They are not bred up in meer idleness and Luxury, as too many are of higher Birth, but in such diligent Study as improveth their understandings, and keepeth them from that debauchery which Idleness and fulness cherish.
2. And their Studies and Callings make it their interest, as to know, so also to maintain the Laws; and that is to maintain propriety, just Liberty and Order, and so to preserve justice and the common peace (except in Countries that have pernicious Laws) Injustice in Judges and Lawyers is like Heresy, ungodliness and persecution in Pastors of the Church; clean contrary to their very Calling and Profession; but more easily and commonly seen and hated, because it is ⟨p. 165⟩against the well known interest of mankind. Shame therefore and common hatred of the unjust, is here a great restraint of evil.
2. And their Studies and Callings make it their interest, as to know, so also to maintain the Laws; and that is to maintain propriety, just Liberty and Order, and so to preserve justice and the common peace (except in Countries that have pernicious Laws) Injustice in Judges and Lawyers is like Heresie, ungodliness and persecution in Pastors of the Church; clean contrary to their very Calling and Profession; but more easily and commonly seen and hated, because it is