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How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life…How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life…
How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life directions and motives to it, intended for an auditory of London citizens, and published for them, for want of leave to preach them / by Richard Baxter.How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life directions and motives to it, intended for an auditory of London citizens, and published for them, for want of leave to preach them / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Rob. Gibs, 1682
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.
II. Another is unbelief of Gods Commands and Promises; when men take not themselves to be his Subject and Stewards, nor can take his promise for good security for their reward.
III. Another is the forementioned sin of Selfishness, which makes a mans self to be his chiefest love and care, and more to him than Christs interest, or the Church or Kingdom.
IV. Another is a false conceit that a man is so obliged to provide for his Children and Kindred, that all that he can get, how rich soever he be, must be left to make them rich, except some inconsiderable pittance.
V. Another is the great neglect of Parents to prepare their Children to be profitable to the Commonwealth, but only to live in prosperity to themselves. 1. Children should be taught as much as may be, to become persons of understanding, and such wisdom as may make them useful. 2. And especially to be truly Religious: For then they will be devoted to do good, in love and obedience to God. 3. They should be taught what it is to be members of Societies, and what duty they owe to Church and State, and how great a part of their duty lieth in caring for the Common good, and how sinful and damnable it is to live only to themselves; and how much this selfishness is the sum