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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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VII. As you love your selves and the common good, get good men about you, read Ps. 101.15, 16. Especially faithful teachers, and next godly Friends and Servants, and Companions, and read much the Histories of the Lives of wise and Godly men, such as K. Edw. 6th. and the Lord Harrington, young men, imitate such excellent persons as Scripture and other History justly commend to your imitation. It will be profitable to read the Lives of worthy men, such as are gathered by Mr. Clerk, Dr. Fuller, Thuanus, Beza, yea of the Martyrs; and of such Christian Princes as Constantine M. Theodosius, &c. Maximilian 2d. Emperor, John Frederick of Saxony, Philip of Hassia, Ludov. Pius of France, yea such Heathens as Titus, Trajan, Adrian, but especially M. Aurel. Antonine and Alex. Severus: Yea and such Lawyers, Philosophers, Physicians, but especially Divines, as Melchior Adamus in Four Volumes hath recorded; and of such Bishops as Cyprian, Nazianzene, Ambrose Austin, Basil, Chrysostom, and our Usher and such others.
VII. As you love your selves and the common good, get good men about you, read Ps. 101.15, 16. Especially faithful teachers, and next godly Friends and Servants, and Companions, and read much the Histories of the Lives of wise and Godly men, such as K. Edw. 6th. and the Lord Harrington, young men, imitate such excellent persons as Scripture and other History justly commend to your imitation. It will be profitable to read the Lives of worthy men, such as are gathered by Mr. Clerk, Dr. Fuller, Thuanus, Beza, yea of the Martyrs; and of such Christian Princes as Constantine M. Theodosius, &c. Maximilian 2d. Emperor, Iohn Frederick of Saxony, Philip of Hassia, Ludov. Pius of France, yea such Heathens as Titus, Trajan, Adrian, but especially M. Aurel. Antonine and Alex. Severus: Yea and such Lawyers, Philosophers, Physicians, but especially Divines, as Melchior Adamus in Four Volums hath recorded; and of such Bishops as Cyprian, Nazianzene, Ambrose Austin, Basil, Chrysostome, and our Vsher and such others.
VIII. Live not in Idleness (as the Sons of rich men too oft do) for that will rust and corrupt your minds, and cherish besotting, ⟨p. 176⟩