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The divine life in three treatises
The divine life in three treatises ... by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1664
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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. And perhaps some of your friends will grow weary of their friendship, having that infirmity of humane nature, not to be much pleased with one thing long. Their Love is a flower that quickly withereth: It is a short-lived thing that soon groweth old. It must be novelty that must feed their love and their delight.
9. And perhaps they may have got some better friends in their apprehensions, that may have so much interest as to take them up, and leave no room for ancient friends. It may be they have met with those that are more suitable, or can be more useful to them: that have more learning, or wit, or wealth, or power, than you have, and therefore seem more worthy of their friendship.
9. And perhaps they may have got some better friends in their apprehensions, that may have so much interest as to take them up, and leave no room for antient friends. It may be they have met with those that are more suitable, or can be more useful to them: that have more learning, or wit, or wealth, or power, than you have, and therefore seem more worthy of their friendship.
10. And some of them may think when you are in a low and suffering state, and in danger of worse, that it is part of their duty of self-preservation to be strange to you (though in heart they wish you well.) They will think they are not bound to hazard themselves upon the displeasure of superiors, to own or befriend you or any other: Though they must not desert Christ, they think they may desert a man for their own preservation.
10. And some of them may think when you are in a low and suffering state, and in danger of worse, that it is part of their duty of self-preservation to be strange to you (though in heart they wish you well.) They will think they are not bound to hazard themselves upon the displeasure of superiours, to own or befriend you or any other: Though they must not desert Christ, they think they may desert a man for their own preservation.