A26903:371
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
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§. 5. Therefore though young men should not receive any Falsehood, Heresy, or ill example from the aged, yet they should still remember ⟨p. 184⟩that caeteris paribus, Age hath the great advantage for knowledge, and youth must needs live in an humble teachable sense of Ignorance; other, mens abuse of Time, and aged folly will not prove them miraculously wise. The aged are always the wisest if they equally improve their time and helps.
§. 5. Therefore though young men should not receive any Falshood, Heresie, or ill example from the aged, yet they should still reber ⟨p. 184⟩that caeteris paribus, Age hath the great advantage for knowledge, and youth must needs live in an humble teachable sence of Ignorance; other, mens abuse of Time, and aged folly will not prove them miraculously wise. The aged are alwaies the wisest if they equally improve their time and helps.
§. 6. It is so odious a sin for Lads and young Students to be self-conceited, and unteachable; and set up their apprehensions with ungrounded confidence against their Elders, that all should be very fearful of that guilt, and have such humble thoughts of their own understandings, as to be jealous of their conceptions; for all these Vices make up their self-conceited prefidence.
1. It is both great ignorance of the darkness of mens understanding, and great ignorance of themselves, to be ignorant that they are ignorant, and to think they are sure of that which they know not.