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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. And the Devil hath advantage to set in, and even possess such proud, prepared ignorant minds, and become their Teacher, and lead them almost to what he will, against Truth, and the Church, and themselves, and God.
3. And the Devil hath advantage to set in, and even possesse such proud, prepared ignorant minds, and become their Teacher, and lead them almost to what he will, against Truth, and the Church, and themselves, and God.
4. And self-conceit, and hasty confidence maketh them continual liars; even while they rage for what they say as true: For being usually mistaken for want of patient trial, they say what they think, and are not to be much believed in their prefidence.
4. And self-conceit, and hasty confidence maketh them continual lyers; even while they rage for what they say as true: For being usually mistaken for want of patient tryal, they say what they think, and are not to be much believed in their prefidence.
§. 8. But seeing many old men are ignorant and erroneous, and some young men have sounder understandings, how shall I know when I am guilty of proud, self-conceit, and prefidence, ⟨p. 187⟩and refusing others judgment. Answ. 1. When you rashly neglect their judgement and Counsel, who have had as good helps and parts as you, and far longer time and experience, without so much as hearing what they have to say, and taking time to try the cause according to its weight, especially if they be such as nature or relation obliged you to learn of. 2. When you easilier suspect such than your own understandings. 3. When your confidence of your understandings is so unproportionable to your Time and Studies, that you must suppose you know by a miracle or some rare capacity and wit; as if you had got more in a few years than the rest of mankind doth in many. 4. When you judge suddenly before you take time to think, and may know that you never heard what may be said against you.