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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.
And it will not be unuseful to our selves to read such Lectures of our own mortality: It is better to go into the house of mourning, then into the house of feasting: for it tendeth to make the heart better, when we see the end of all the living, and what it is that the world will do for those that sell their salvation for it. When we see that it will be our own case, and there is no escape;
(Scilicet omne Sacrum mors importuna prophanat, Omnibus obscuras injicit illa manus.)
it will make us talk to our selves in Bernards language, Quare O miser non omni hora ad mortem ⟨p. 92⟩te disponis? Cogitate jam mortuum, quem scis necessitate moriturum: distingue qualiter oculi vertentur in capite, venae rumpentur in corpore, & cor scindetur dolore. When we see that (as he saith) death spareth none: inopiae non miseretur, non reveretur divitias; non sapientiae, non moribus, non aetati denique parcit; nisi quod senibus mors est in januis, juvenibus vero in insidiis; it will excite us the better to consider the use of faith and holiness; that it is not to put by death, but to put by hell; not that we may not dye as certainly as others, but that we may dye better, and be certainly happy after death.
it will make us talk to our selves in Bernards language, Quare O miser non omni hora ad mortem ⟨p. 92⟩te disponis? Cogita te jam mortuum, quem scis necessitate moriturum: distingue qualiter oculi vertentur in capite, venae rumpentur in corpore, & cor scindetur dolore. When we see that (as he saith) death spareth none: inopiae non miseretur, non reveretur divitias; non sapientiae, non moribus, non aetati denique parcit; nisi quod senibus mors est in januis, juvenibus vero in insidiis; it will excite us the better to consider the use of faith and holiness; that it is not to put by death, but to put by hell; not that we may not dye as certainly as others, but that we may dye better, and be certainly happy after death.