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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.
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.
Teaching and Guidance contain the main parts at least of the work to which they are designed. The particulars we shall further stand upon anon.
A particular Church is the object of their work; by which they are distinguished from Apostolical unfixed itinerant Ministers.
They are the stated Ordinary Teachers of such a Church, by which they are differenced, both from private men, who do occasionally teach; and from the foresaid Itinerant Ministers, that do but in transitu, or seldom teach a particular Church. The subject is the matters of Salvation and Obedience to God, and the end is salvation it self, and the pleasing of God therein; by which work and ends the office is distinguished from all other offices, as Magistrates, School-masters, &c. though they also have the same remote or ultimate ends.