A26903:317
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.
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 ⟨p. 165⟩against the well known interest of mankind. Shame therefore and common hatred of the unjust, is here a great restraint of evil.
But bad men, for all this, will do badly, and turn even the Rules of Justice to Oppression, to serve the Wills and Lusts of those that can promote them, that by them they may serve their own. Therefore that Young men, that Study the Law, may prove wise and honest, is of great importance to the common good, as well as to their own.