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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. VI.
2. Take heed to your selves, lest you live in those actual sins which you preach against in others, and lest you be guilty of that which daily you condemn. Will you make it your work to magnify God, and when you have done, dishonour him as much as others? Will you proclaim Christs ⟨p. 16⟩Governing Power, and yet contemn it, and rebel your selves? Will you preach his laws, and wilfully break them? If sin be evil, why do you live in it? If it be not, why do you dissuade men from it? If it be dangerous, how dare you venture on it? If it be not, why do you tell men so? If Gods threatenings be true, why do you not fear them? If they be false, why do you trouble men needlessly with them, and put them into such frights without a cause? Do you know the Judgement of God, that they that commit such things are worthy of death, and yet will you do them? Rom. 1. 32. Thou that teachest another, teachest thou not thy self? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, or be drunk, or covetous, art thou such thy self? Thou that makest thy boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonourest thou God? Rom. 2. 21, 21, 23. What, shall the same tongue speak evil, that speaketh against evil? shall it censure, and slander, and secretly backbite, that cries down these and the like in others? Take heed to your selves, lest you should cry down sin, and not overcome it, lest while you seek to bring it down in others, you bow to it, and become its slaves your selves. For of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage, 2 Pet. 2. 19. To whom you yield your selves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness.