A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.
— Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
I haven’t got the slightest clue as to what this quote is about
I read it as how a physician/friend is foolish if he doesn’t tell you there is something wrong with you because he doesn’t want to bother you. Another example – as friends, if we don’t tell people about Jesus and salvation because we’re afraid of angering them or afraid they won’t like us, we are being cruel to them. What’s more important than pointing the way to the cross?