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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
Chapter 12: Counsel to the Sons of the Nobility and Magistrates.
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CHAP. XII. Counsel to the Sons of the Nobility and Magistrates.
Though men of your rank, are furthest out of the hearing of such as I, and usually the greatest contemners of our Counsel, yet will not that excuse us from due compassion to the Land our of Nativity, nor ⟨p. 169⟩from Love and Pity to your selves, nor from any probable Ministerial attempt to do you good.
THough men of your rank, are furthest out of the hearing of such as I, and usually the greatest contemners of our Counsel, yet will not that excuse us from due compassion to the Land our of Nativity, nor ⟨p. 169⟩from Love and Pity to your selves, nor from any probable Ministerial attempt to do you good.
Your dangers are much greater than other mens; or else Christ had never so often told us, how hard it is for Rich men to be saved; and how few such escape the Idolatrous damning Love of the World, and become sincere believers and followers of a Crucified Saviour, Luke 12. and 16. &c.