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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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Feast not therefore without fear, remember that flesh-pleasing sensuality is as damnable in the rich as in the poor, and that the greatest wealth will not allow you to take any more for quantity or quality, than standeth with Temperance, and truly tendeth to fit you for your duty, your riches are given you in trust as God's Stewards, to serve your Country, and relieve the poor, and to promote good uses, but not to serve your fleshly lusts, nor to be abused to excess or cherish sin. To be sober and temperate is the interest of your own Souls and Bodies, and under your great Temptations the more laudable.
Feast not therefore without fear, remember that flesh-pleasing sensuality is as damnable in the rich as in the poor, and that the greatest wealth will not allow you to take any more for quantity or quality, than standeth with Temperance, and truly tendeth to fit you for your duty, your riches are given you in trust as God's Stewards, to serve your Countrey, and relieve the poor, and to promote good uses, but not to serve your fleshly lusts, nor to be abused to excess or cherish sin. To be sober and temperate is the interest of your own Souls and Bodies, and under your great Temptations the more laudable.
II. Another of your dangers is the ill examples of too many persons of your rank. You are apt to think that their wealth and Pomp and Power makes them more imitable than others, as being more Honourable. And if they wallow in drunkenness or filthy lust, or talk profanely, you may think that such sins are the less disgraceful.
II. Another of your dangers is the ill examples of too many persons of your rank. You are apt to think that their wealth and Pomp and Power makes them more imitable than others, as being more Honourable. And if they wallow in drunkenness or filthy lust, or talk prophanely, you may think that such sins are the less disgraceful.