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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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Tell me I beseech you, you that can be so merry in an Alehouse, or in any vain and idle company, why should you think that it is not to us a far sweeter thing to talk of holy edifying matters, then it is to you to talk of vanity? Is the subject of your discourse more fit to delight a man of wisdom! Do you talk of better things then God, or of higher things then Heaven? or of things that nearlier concern you, then the matters of everlasting consequence?
Tell me I beseech you, you that can be so merry in an Alehouse, or in any vain and idle company, why should you think that it is not to us a far sweeter thing to talk of holy edifying matters, then it is to you to talk of vanity? Is the subject of your discourse more fit to delight a man of wisdom! Do you talk of better things then God, or of higher things then Heaven? or of things that nearlyer concern you, then the matters of everlasting consequence?
When I have heard such people talking and laughing, as if they had been the merryest people in the world, I have sometimes hearkened to their discourse, to hear what talk it was that made them so merry; and it hath been nothing but impertinency and folly, like a mans talking in his sleep; enough to make a mans head ache to hear them: I should be quickly tired with their delights: The blowing of the wind, or the falling of the rain, or as Solomon saith, the crackling of thorns in the fire, hath as much in it to please my ear, and much less to displease it, then such mens discourse.
When I have heard such people talking and laughing, as if they had been the merryest people in the world, I have sometimes hearkened to their discourse, to hear what talk it was that made them so merry; and it hath been nothing but impertinency and folly, like a mans talking in his sleep; enough to make a mans head ake to hear them: I should be quickly tired with their delights: The blowing of the wind, or the falling of the rain, or as Solomon saith, the crackling of thorns in the fire, hath as much in it to please my ear, and much less to displease it, then such mens discourse.