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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
Chapter 4: How the Case standeth with our Youth in matter of Fact.
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4. And too many have so great an Enmity and averseness to all that is holy, spiritual and heavenly, that they are weary to hear you talk of it, and you persuade them to learn, to read, to pray, to meditate, or consider, as you persuade a sick man to the meat which he doth loath, ⟨p. 26⟩or a man to dwell with those that he hateth. They have no appetite to such things; no pleasure in them; when you have said all of God, and Christ, and Glory, they believe it not, or they savour it not: They are things above their reach and love, yea, things against their carnal minds: You tire them worse than if you talked in a strange Language to them, such enmity is in the heart of corrupted man to God and Heaven, till the Grace of the great Reconciler overcome it by a new Life, and Light and Love.
4. And too many have so great an Enmity and aversness to all that is holy, spiritual and heavenly, that they are weary to hear you talk of it, and you persuade them to learn, to read, to pray, to meditate, or consider, as you persuade a sick man to the meat which he doth loath, ⟨p. 26⟩or a man to dwell with those that he hateth. They have no appetite to such things; no pleasure in them; when you have said all of God, and Christ, and Glory, they believe it not, or they savour it not: They are things above their reach and love, yea, things against their carnal minds: You tire them worse than if you talk'd in a strange Language to them, such enmity is in the heart of corrupted man to God and Heaven, till the Grace of the great Reconciler overcome it by a new Life, and Light and Love.
5. And when custom is added to all these vicious dispositions, alas, what slaves and drudges of Satan doth it make them! For instance,