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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. 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.
3. It is folly to think that Truth can be known, without sufficient time and tryal; and contrary to the Worlds continual experience.
4. It is an absurd, an inhumane, a subverting of the order of World, for Lads to set up their Wits by groundless self-conceitedness against their Elders, as for Subjects to set their Wills against Rulers.
5. It is a continual unrighteousness; there is a justice required in our common private judging, as well as in Judges public judgment. And all should be heard and tried before we peremptorily judge.