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The Christian religion expressed I, briefly in the ancient creeds, the Ten commandments, and…
The Christian religion expressed I, briefly in the ancient creeds, the Ten commandments, and the Lords prayer, and, II, more largely in a profession taken out of the Holy Scriptures, containing 1, the articles of the Christian belief, 2, our consent to the gospel covenant, 3, the sum of Christian duty, according to the primitive simplicity, purity, and practice, fitted to the right instruction of the ignorant, the promoting of holiness, and the charitable concord of all true believers ... / by Richard Baxter.
London : s.n., 1660
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.
15. Those Ministers that are placed in Parishes, where are many sorts of people, some Ignorant of the essentials of Christianity, some Apostates, some impious and of wicked lives, and some that consent not to be members of their Pastoral charge, should teach them all that will submit and learn: For we are called to it by the Magistrate and obliged by the public maintenance which we receive to that end; and engaged by the general command of improving our talents, and the special opportunity that we have thereunto.
15. Those Ministers that are placed in Parishes, where are many sorts of people, some Ignorant of the essentials of Christianity, some Apostates, some impious and of wicked lives, and some that consent not to be members of their Pastoral charge, should teach them all that will submit and learn: For we are called to it by the Magistrate and obliged by the publike maintenance which we receive to that end; and engaged by the general command of improving our talents, and the special opportunity that we have thereunto.
16. This teaching of all our Parishioners that will submit, must be both personally and publicly, as far as we have ability and ⟨p. 35⟩opportunity. The former must be by Catechizing, and conference; wherein we must teach them first the essential points of Christianity, and labour to help them to the clearest understanding of the doctrine of Salvation; and press it on their affections, and help them to discern their sin and misery, and do all that we can to procure their conversion or edification, according to their several states; managing the whole work with those holy affections, that the weight of it doth require.
16. This teaching of all our Parishioners that will submit, must be both personally and publikely, as far as we have ability and ⟨p. 35⟩opportunity. The former must be by Catechizing, and conference; wherein we must teach them first the essential points of Christianity, and labour to help them to the clearest understanding of the doctrine of Salvation; and press it on their affections, and help them to discern their sin and misery, and do all that we can to procure their conversion or edification, according to their several states; manageing the whole work with those holy affections, that the weight of it doth require.