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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.
IV. Having showed you, What it is to Take heed to our selves, and Why it must be done? I am next to show you, What it is to Take heed to all the Flock, and wherein it doth consist and must be exercised. It was first necessary to take into Consideration, What we must be, and what we must do for our own souls, before we come to that which must be done for others: Ne quis aliorum vulnera medendo ad salutem, ipse per negligentiam suae salutis intumescat; ne proximos juvando, see desert; ne alios erigens, cadat, saith Gregor. M. de cur. past. l. 4. Yea left all his labours come to nought, because his heart and life is nought that doth perform them. Nonnulli enim sunt qui solerti curâ spiritualia praecepta prescrutantur, sed quae intelligendo penetrant, vivendo conculcant: repente decent quae non opere, sed meditatione didicerunt: & quod verbis praedicant, moribus impugnant; unde fit ut cum pastor per abrupta graditur, ad praecipitium grex sequatur. Idem ib. li. 1. cap. 2. When we have led them to the living waters, if we muddy it by our filthy ⟨p. 49⟩lives, we may lose our labour, & yet they be never the better. Aquam pedibus perturbare, est sancta meditationis studia male vivendo corrumpere, inquit Idem. ibid.
IV. HAving shewed you, What it is to Take heed to our selves, and Why it must be done? I am next to shew you, What it is to Take heed to all the Flock, and wherein it doth consist and must be exercised. It was first necessary to take into Consideration, What we must be, and what we must do for our own souls, before we come to that which must be done for others: Ne quis aliorum vulnera medendo ad salutem, ipse per negligentiam suae salutis intumescat; ne proximos juvando, se deser•t; ne alios erigens, cadat, saith Gregor. M. de cur. past. l. 4. Yea left all his labours come to nought, because his heart and life is nought that doth perform them. Nonnulli enim sunt qui solerti curâ spiritualia praecepta prescrutantur, sed quae intelligendo penetrant, vivendo conculcant: repente decent quae non opere, sed meditatione didicerunt: & quod verbis praedicant, moribus impugnant; unde fit ut cum pastor per abrupta graditur, ad praecipitium grex sequatur. Idem ib. li. 1. cap. 2. When we have led them to the living waters, if we muddy it by our filthy ⟨p. 49⟩lives, we may lose our labour, & yet they be never the better. Aquam pedibus perturbare, est sancta meditationis studia male vivendo corrumpere, inquit Idem. ibid.