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A26903	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.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing B1229; ESTC R170462	84,953	211

it as if it were but needless melancholy troublesom talk But tell me do you think in Conscience that it is sound reason that they give you and such as should satisfie a sober man that careth what becomes of his soul for ever If it be I make a motion to you Bring any of them to me or any such man and in your hearing let the case be soberly debated I will hear all that they can say against a holy sober life for the World and for their fleshly pleasure And you shall hear what I can say on the contrary and then do but use the reason of a man and judge as you see cause As Elias said to the Israelites Why halt you between two Opinions If the Lord be God follow him If Baal be God follow him If Money Preferment Drink and Lust be best take it But if God Heaven Christ Faith Hope and Holiness be best at your peril refuse them not and halt no longer I suppose you sometime think of the case or else you are dead in sin I pray you tell me or tell your selves which cause seemeth best upon the deepest thoughts and consideration But if you will take the laughter or scorns of ignorant Sots instead of reason and instead of sober consideration you are well worthy of the damnation which you so wilfully choose Qu. 16. But if you think highly of their Wit or Learning who sin as you and who encourage and deceive you I pray you answer these two questions 1. Which side is Christ and his Prophets and Apostles on Which side doth the Scripture speak for Which way went all the Saints whose names are now honoured Were they for the fleshly or the spiritual life Were they for the love of pleasures more than God Doth Christ from Heaven teach you an earthly or a heavenly choice and life Did he come to cherish sin or to destroy it and save us from it You can make no doubt of this if ever you read or heard the Bible And 2. Which do you think were the wiser and better men and worthy to be believed and followed Whether Christ and all his Apostles and Saints that ever were in the world to this day or the Drunkards and Whoremongers and Worldlings who deride the Doctrine sent from Heaven If there be a Heaven is Drunkenness or Sobriety liker to be the way to it But if indeed you will take the mocks of a swinish Sot to be wiser than God than Christ than Prophets and Apostles and all that ever went to Heaven and their jears to be more credible than all God's Word what can a man say to convince such Wretches with any hope Qu. 17. I further ask you Have you not some secret purposes hereafter to repent If not alas how far are you from it and how forlorn is your case But if you have Conscience is a Witness against you that you choose and live in that case and course which you know is worst Were it not worst you need not purpose to repent of it And will you wilfully choose known evil when the very nature of mans Will is to love good Qu. 18. And if you believe that the faithful are in a happier case than you tell me What hindereth yet but you may be like them and yet be happy as well as they Hath God put any exception against you in his word Is not Mercy and Salvation proclaimed and offered to you as freely as to them Did any thing make you so bad as you are but your own choice and doing And can any thing yet hinder you from pardon and Salvation if you your selves were but truly willing What if your Parents were bad and bred you up amiss God hath told you in Ezek. 18. and 33. that if you will but do your own part yet and take warning and avoid your Parents sin and give up your selves unfeignedly to him he will save you whatever your Parents were What if Princes or Lords or learned men should be your tempters by words or example None of them can force you to one sin God is greater and wiser than they and more to be believed and obeyed and your Salvation is not in any of their power What if your old companions tempt you They can but tempt you they cannot constrain you to any evil All the Devils in Hell or men on earth cannot damn you no nor make you sinners if you do it not your selves Refuse not Christ and he will not refuse you And when he is willing if you be but willing truly willing to be saved from sin and misery and to have Christ Grace and Glory in the use of the means which God hath appointed you neither Earth nor Hell can hinder your Salvation Who but your selves keep you from forsaking the Company House or Baits which have deceived you Who but your selves keep you from lamenting your sin and flying to Christ and begging Mercy and giving your selves to God If you think that serious Christians are the happiest refuse not to be such your selves It will be your own doing your own wilful obstinacy if you perish But of this I have already said more in my Call to the Vnconverted Qu. 19. Dare you deliberately resolve or bargain to take your fleshly pleasures for your part instead of all your hopes of Heaven I hope none of you are yet so mad I think it is but few if any of the Witches that make so express a bargain with the Devil If they did O how they would tremble when they see their glass almost run out and death at hand If you dare not make such a bargain in plain words O do not do the same in the choice of your hearts and the practice of your lives and deceive your selves by thinking that you do it not when you do It is God and not you that maketh the conditions of Salvation and Damnation If you choose that life which God hath told us is the condition of Damnation and finally refuse that life which God hath made the condition of Salvation it will in effect be all one as to chuse Damnation and refuse Salvation He that chooseth deadly poison or refuseth his necessary food chooseth Death and refuseth Life in effect God hath said If ye live after the Flesh ye shall die but if by the Spirit you mortifie the deeds of the Body you shall live Rom. 8. Christ tells you that unless you are born again and converted you cannot enter into his Kingdom Ioh. 3 3 5. Matth. 18.3 and that Without Holiness none shall see God Refuse these and choose the world and sinful pleasures and you refuse Salvation and shall have no better than you choose What you judge best choose resolvedly and do not cheat your selves Qu. 20. Have you no natural love to your Parents or your Country O what inhumane cruelty is it to break the hearts of those from whom you had your Being and who were tender of you when you could

age they come to true understanding of the Covenant which they made and must renew and till they give credible signs of real Godlyness by a Godly Life and of what mischievous effects it is to confirm them and admit them to the Lords Supper on their bare saying the words of the Catechism the Creeds Lords Prayer and Decalogue without tryed Vnderstanding and serious Piety And what a wrong it is to the Christian Church and Religion to confound and corrupt our Communion for want of Parish Discipline and distinctions And how little good all Canons or Laws for Reformation or Religious duty will do if the Ministry be ignorant worldly and ungodly and the Churches be not taught and guided by able godly humble self-denying and loving Pastors I beseech you read him diligently he was no violent man and his books here mentioned were purposely written for K. Edward and the Bishops and Church of England and accepted kindly by them His burnt bones were honourably vindicated by the publick praise and his memory by many in Cambridge solemnly commended to posterity I beseech you let his Counsel in these Books be revived and true Reformation be tryed by their Light I hope they will hear that great and moderate Reformer that will not hear me or such as I. And if you will adde the Reading of old Salvian and of Nic. Clemangis it may do you good and excite you to do good to others and promote the ends of this Advise to Youth March 25. 1681. FINIS A CATALOGUE of Mr. Baxter's Books to satisfie some Foreigners And are to be Sold by B. Simmons at the Three Golden Cocks at the West End of St. Pauls I. Doctrinal 1. A Phorisms of the Covenants and Justification suspended for some imperfections 12 mo 2. The Reasons of the Christian Religion 4 to 3. The Unreasonableness of Infidelity How the Spirit is Christs Witness Of the sin against the Holy Ghost 8 vo 4. More Reasons for the Christian Religion confuting the Ld. Herbert de Veritate 12 mo 5. A Confession of his Faith against Antinomians 4 to 6. The Vindication of Gods goodness against some melancholy Exceptions 12 mo 7. How far Holiness is the design of Christianity 4 to 8. A Latine Methodus Theologiae Christianae which with the Body of Practical Divinity maketh an entire System It consists of 73 Tables or Methodical Schemes pretending to a juster Methodizing of Christian Verities according to the Matter and Scripture than is yet extant furnishing men with necessary distinctions on every Subject shewing that Trinity in Unity is imprinted on the whole Creation and that Trichotomising is the just distribution in Naturals and Morals The 1st Part of the Kingdom of Nature The 2d of the Kingdom of Grace before Christs Incarnation The 3d of the Kingdom of Grace and the Spirit since the Incarnation The 4th of the Kingdom of Glory All in the Political Method in the Efficience Constition and Administration viz. Legislation Judgment and Execution The first Part mostly Philosophical with a full Scheme of Philosophy or Ontology The Doctrine de Anima most largely handled with above 200 select Disputations Prolixe ones of the Trinity Predetermination the Faculties of the Soul Original Sin And a multitude of Controversies briefly decided in Fol. II. Practicals for all sorts 9. A Christian Directory or Body of practical Divinity 1. Christian Ethicks 2. Oeconomicks 3. Ecclesiasticks 4. Politicks Resolving multitudes of Cases on each Subject Fol. 10. The Saints everlasting Rest. 4 to 11. A Treatise of Self-Denial 4 to 12. The crucifying of the World by the Cross of Christ. 4 to 13. The mischiefs of Self-Ignorance 8 vo 14. A Sermon of Repentance preached to the Commons the day before they voted the King's Return 4 to 15. Right Rejoycing A Thanksgiving Sermon at St. Pauls foretelling the danger of their turning all into greater Calamity 4 to 16. The vain Religion of the formal Hypocrite And the Fools prosperity 12 mo 17. A Sermon of Faith before the King 4 to 18. The poor mans Family Book for them that cannot buy many A familiar Dialogue shewing the Unconverted how to become true Christians and the Converted how to live and die as such With a Catechism Prayers and Psalms 8 vo III. Practicals for the Vnconverted 19. A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live 12 mo 20. Directions and Persuasions to a sound Conversion 8 vo 21. Now or Never 12 mo 22. A Treatise of Conversion 4 to 23. A Saint or a Bruit 4 to 24. A Sermon of making Light of Christ. 8 vo 25. A Treatise of Judgment 8 vo 26. True Christianity Christs absolute Dominion and Mans Subjection Assize Sermons 12 mo 27. Catholick Unity How to be all of one Religion Ungodliness the great Divider 12 mo IV. Practicals for the Faithful 28. The right Method for settled Peace of Conscience and Spiritual Comfort 8 vo 29. The weak Christian strong Christian and Hypocrite characterized 8 vo 30. The Divine Life 1. A Treatise of the Knowledge of God and use of his Attributes 2. Of Walking with God 3. Conversing with God in solitude 4 to 31. The Life of Faith in every State 4 to 32. Mrs. Bakers Funeral Sermon Death the last Enemy 8 vo 33. Mr. Hen. Stubs Funeral Sermon 12 mo 34. Mrs. Coxes Funeral Sermon 4 to 35. Alderman Ashursts Funeral Sermon 4 to 36. Mr. Io. Corbets Funeral Sermon 4 to 37. Mrs. Baxters Life and her Mothers Funeral Sermon The last work of a Believer 4 to 38. Poetical Fragments Partly Thanksgiving partly the groans of the afflicted 8 vo V. Controversies against Popery 39. The safe Religion Three Disputations 8 vo 40. One Sheet of Reasons against Popery 8 vo 41. A Key for Catholicks to open the juglings of the Jesuits The first part answering all their common Sophisms The second against the Soveraignty and necessity of General Councils 4 to 42. The certainty of Christianity without Popery 8 vo 43. Full and easie satisfaction which is the true Religion Transubstantiation shamed 8 vo 44. Naked Popery Answering Mr. Hutchinson 4 to 45. The true Catholick Church A popular Sermon of its Unity 12 mo 46. The successive Visibility of the Church where it hath been in all Ages An Answer to W. Iohnson alias Terret 8 vo 47. Which is the true Church A full Answer to his Reply proving that the General Councils and the Popes Primacy were but in one Empire 4 to 48. The Grotian Religion discovered 12 mo 49. The History of Bishops and their Councils abridged and of the Popes 4 to VI. English Church Controversies 50. Gildas Salvianus The Reformed Pastor shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Office especially of personal Instruction 8 vo 51. Christian Concord The Agreement of the associated Pastors and Churches of Worcestershire 4 to 52. Their Agreement for Catechising and personal Instructing their Parishes 8 vo 53. Disputations of Right to Sacraments 4 to 54. Disputations of Church Government Liturgies and Ceremonies 4 to 55. Of