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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
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.
§. 3. 1. That it is certain that mere Age doth not make men wise or good, none are more sottishly and uncurably ignorant than the aged ignorants; and few so bad as the old obstinate sinners. For they grow worse deceiving and being deceived, and more and more abuse Gods mercy, and are still going further from him, as the faithful are growing better and nearer to him.
§. 3. 1. That it is certain that meer Age doth not make men wise or good, none are more sottishly and uncurably ignorant than the aged ignorants; and few so bad as the old obstinate sinners. For they grow worse deceiving and being deceived, and more and more abuse Gods mercy, and are still going further from him, as the faithful are growing better and nearer to him.
2. And it is certain that God greatly blesseth some young mens understandings, and maketh them wiser than the aged and their Teachers.
3. And such a one is not bound to think that he knoweth not what he knoweth; nor to believe that every old man is wiser than he; all this we grant.