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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.
2. In acquainting them with the right means for the attainment of this end, and helping them to use them, and hindering them from the contrary.
2. In acquainting them with the right means for the attainment of this end, and helping them to use them, and hindring them from the contrary.
1. It is the first and great work of the Ministers of Christ to acquaint men with that God that made them, and is their Happiness: to open to them the treasures of his Goodness, and tell them of the Glory that is in his presence, which all his chosen people shall enjoy: That so by showing men the Certainty and the Excellency of the promised felicity, and the perfect blessedness in the life to come, compared with the vanities of this present life, we ⟨p. 58⟩may turn the stream of their cogitations and affections; and bring them to a due contempt of this world, and set them on seeking the durable treasure. And this is the work that we should lie at with them night and day: could we once get them right in regard of the end, and set their hearts unfeignedly on God, and heaven, the chiefest part of the work were done: for all the rest would undoubtedly follow.
1. It is the first and great work of the Ministers of Christ to acquaint men with that God that made them, and is their Happiness: to open to them the treasures of his Goodness, and tell them of the Glory that is in his presence, which all his chosen people shall enjoy: That so by shewing men the Certainty and the Excellency of the promised felicity, and the perfect blessedness in the life to come, compared with the vanities of this present life, we ⟨p. 58⟩may turn the stream of their cogitations and affections; and bring them to a due contempt of this world, and set them on seeking the durable treasure. And this is the work that we should lie at with them night and day: could we once get them right in regard of the end, and set their hearts unfeignedly on God, and heaven, the chiefest part of the work were done: for all the rest would undoubtedly follow.