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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 4: How the Case standeth with our Youth in matter of Fact.
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CHAP. IV. How the Case standeth with our Youth in matter of Fact.
§ 1. Through the great mercy of God, many Families are sacred Nurseries for Church and Kingdom; and many Parents have great comfort in the Grace of God appearing in their Children. From their early Childhood many are of humble, obedient Dispositions, and have a love to Knowledge, and a love to the word of God, and to those that are good and virtuous persons. They have inward convictions of the evil of Sin, and a fear of sinning, and a great dislike of wicked persons, and a great Love and reverend Obedience to their Parents, and when they grow up, they diligently learn in private, and in public: They increase in their love to the Scriptures and good Books, and to Godly teachers, and godly Company, and God saveth them from temptations, and worldly deceits, and fleshly Lusts, and they live to God, and are blessings to the Land, the joy of their Friends, and exemplary and useful to those whom they converse with.
§ 1. THrough the great mercy of God, many Families are sacred Nurseries for Church and Kingdom; and many Parents have great comfort in the Grace of God appearing in their Children. From their early Childhood many are of humble, obedient Dispositions, and have a love to Knowledge, and a love to the word of God, and to those that are good and virtuous persons. They have inward convictions of the evil of Sin, and a fear of sinning, and a great dislike of wicked persons, and a great Love and reverend Obedience to their Parents, and when they grow up, they diligently learn in private, and in publick: They increase in their love to the Scriptures and good Books, and to Godly teachers, and godly Company, and God saveth them from temptations, and worldly deceits, and fleshly Lusts, and they live to God, and are blessings to the Land, the joy of their Friends, and exemplary and useful to those whom they converse with.