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Gildas Salvianus: The Reformed Pastor
Gildas Salvianus, the reformed pastor showing the nature of the pastoral work, especially in private instruction and catechizing : with an open confession of our too open sins : prepared for a day of humiliation kept at Worcester, Decemb. 4, 1655 by the ministers of that county, who subscribed the agreement for catechizing and personal instruction at their entrance upon that work / by their unworthy fellow-servant, Richard Baxter ...Gildas Salvianus, the reformed pastor shewing the nature of the pastoral work, especially in private instruction and catechizing : with an open confession of our too open sins : prepared for a day of humiliation kept at Worcester, Decemb. 4, 1655 by the ministers of that county, who subscribed the agreement for catechizing and personal instruction at their entrance upon that work / by their unworthy fellow-servant, Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by Robert White for Nevil Simmons, 1656
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.
SECT. IV.
1. What the words, Pastor, Bishop and Church do signify, I will not wast time to tell you, they being so well known. As for the things signified. 1. By a Pastor or Bishop here is meant, An Officer appointed by Christ for the ordinary Teaching and Guiding a particular Church and all its members, in order to their salvation and the pleasing of God.
1. VVHat the words, Pastor, Bishop and Church do signifie, I will not wast time to tell you, they being so well known. As for the things signified. 1. By a Pastor or Bishop here is meant, An Officer appointed by Christ for the ordinary Teaching and Guiding a particular Church and all its members, in order to their salvation and the pleasing of God.
Christ appointeth the Office it self by his Laws. The person he calleth to it by his qualifying Gifts, Providential disposals, secret impulses, and ordinarily ⟨p. 13⟩by the Ordination of his present Officers, and the Acceptance of the Church.