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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.
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.
§. 4. But though, Eccl. 4.13, Better is a poor and a wise Child, than an old and foolish King who will no more be admonished. Yet,
1. It is certain that knowledge cometh much by experience; and long experience and use, is far more powerful than the short: And Time and Converse is necessary to it; naturally or ordinarily long learning and use increaseth knowledge. Do not all take it for granted that usually the boys who have been many years at School are better who Scholars than beginners; and so in all other acquisitions. Therefore it was the Elders that were commonly the Rulers of the people in Church and Commonwealth, and the Pastors and Rulers are thence called Elders: And if they were not ordinarily the wisest, why did not God make the Children the ordinary Teachers and Rulers of their Parents, but the Parents of the Children? Old men may be Ignorant and Erroneous