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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.
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.
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.
But can you dream that they are the less Dangerous and Damnable. Will God fear them or spare them. Must they not die and be judged as well as the lowest. Is it not an aggravation of their sin, that its done by men that had the greatest Mercies, and were put in trust and honour purposely to ⟨p. 171⟩suppress sin in the World. As their places signify more than others, so do their sins; and accordingly shall they be punished: Doth the quondam Wealth, Honour or Pleasures of a Dives, a Pharaoh, an Ahab, a Herod, a Pilate, a Nero, ease a lost tormented Soul.
But can you dream that they are the less Dangerous and Damnable. Will God fear them or spare them. Must they not die and be judged as well as the lowest. Is it not an aggravation of their sin, that its done by men that had the greatest Mercies, and were put in trust and honour purposely to ⟨p. 171⟩suppress sin in the World. As their places signifie more than others, so do their sins; and accordingly shall they be punished: Doth the quondam Wealth, Honour or Pleasures of a Dives, a Pharaoh, an Ahab, a Herod, a Pilate, a Nero, ease a lost tormented Soul.