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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.
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II. LET us next consider, What it is to take heed to our selves, and wherein it must be done. And here I may well for brevity sake adjoin the Application to the Explication, it being about the matter of our Practise, that I may be put to go over as little as may be of the same things again. Take therefore I beseech you all this Explication, as so much Advice and Exhortation to the duty, and let your hearts attend it as well as your understandings.
II. LET us next consider, What it is to take heed to our selves, and wherein it must be done. And here I may well for brevity sake adjoyn the Application to the Explication, it being about the matter of our Practise, that I may be put to go over as little as may be of the same things again. Take therefore I beseech you all this Explication, as so much Advice and Exhortation to the duty, and let your hearts attend it as well as your understandings.
1. Take heed to your selves, lest you should be void of that saving Grace of God which you offer to others, and be strangers to the effectual workings of that Gospel which you preach; and lest while you proclaim the necessity of a Saviour to the world, your own hearts should neglect him, and you should miss of an interest in him and his saving benefits? Take heed to your selves, lest you perish, while you call upon others to take heed of perishing! and lest you famish your selves while you prepare their food. Though there be a promise of shining as the stars to those that turn many to righteousness,