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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 what a doleful case is it, that so much of your Minds, and Love, and Delight, which were all made for God, should be so misemployed▪ even in your strength when they should be most vigorous? and all worse than cast away on filth and folly? If your Souls be more worth than your Money, it is more folly and loss to misemploy and abuse your Souls, your Reason, Love, and your Delight, than to abuse or cast away your Money. And what a Traitor or Murderer deserveth, that would give his Money to hire one to kill the King, or his Neighbour, I suppose you know; and what deserveth he that will use not only his money, but himself, his soul, his thoughts, his love, his desire and pleasure against the most glorious God that made him. That you cannot hurt him is no thanks to you; while you break his Laws, and deny him your Love and Duty, and love more that one thing which only he hateth, and will never be reconciled to.
§ 3. And what a doleful case is it, that so much of your Minds, and Love, and Delight, which were all made for God, should be so misimployed▪ even in your strength when they should be most vigorous? and all worse than cast away on filth and folly? If your Souls be more worth than your Money, it is more folly and loss to misimploy and abuse your Souls, your Reason, Love, and your Delight, than to abuse or cast away your Money. And what a Traitor or Murderer deserveth, that would give his Money to hire one to kill the King, or his Neighbour, I suppose you know; and what deserveth he that will use not only his mony, but himself, his soul, his thoughts, his love, his desire and pleasure against the most glorious God that made him. That you cannot hurt him is no thanks to you; while you break his Laws, and deny him your Love and Duty, and love more that one thing which only he hateth, and will never be reconciled to.
§ 4. And how doleful a case is it, that all the Care, and Love, and Labour of your ⟨p. 39⟩