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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.
§. 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.
2. It is an odious sort of Pride, to overvalue an ignorant understanding, and to be proudly confident of that which they have not.
3. It is folly to think that Truth can be known, without sufficient time and trial; and contrary to the Worlds continual experience.