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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.
8. When the most and wisest men that know you, think you not so wise as you think your selves, nor your reason so good; but pity your self-conceitedness, and yet this brings you not to suspect and try.
8. When the most and wisest men that know you, think you not so wise as you think your selves, nor your reason so good; but pity your self-conceitedness, and yet this brings you not to suspect and trie.
9. When you are hardly and rarely brought to an humble confession of your errors, but in all debates you seem still, what ever the cause be, to be in the right, and when you have once said it you will stand to it, and justify untruths, or extenuate and excuse them.
9. When you are hardly and rarely brought to an humble confession of your errours, but in all debates you seem still, what ever the cause be, to be in the right, and when you have once said it you will stand to it, and justifie untruths, or extenuate and excuse them.
10. When you too much affect the esteem of wisdom, and love to have your judgments a Rule to others, and are unfit for true subjection.