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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.
4. If they do recover, be sure to mind them of their promises. Go to them purposely to set it home, and reduce them into performance. And when ever after you see them remiss, go to them then, and mind them what they formerly said. And because it is of such use to them that recover (and hath been a means of the conversion of many a soul) it is very necessary that you go to them whose sickness ⟨p. 94⟩is not mortal, as well as to them that are nearer death: that so we may have some advantage to move them to repentance, and engage them to newness of life; and may afterward have this to plead against their sins: As a Bishop of Colen is said by Aeneas Sylvius to have answered the Emperor Sigismund, when he asked him, What was the way to be saved; that he must be what he purposed or promised to be, when he was last troubled with the stone and the gout; So may we hereafter answer these.
4. If they do recover, be sure to mind them of their promises. Go to them purposely to set it home, and reduce them into performance. And when ever after you see them remiss, go to them then, and mind them what they formerly said. And because it is of such use to them that recover (and hath been a means of the conversion of many a soul) it is very necessary that you go to them whose sickness ⟨p. 94⟩is not mortal, as well as to them that are neerer death: that so we may have some advantage to move them to repentance, and engage them to newness of life; and may afterward have this to plead against their sins: As a Bishop of Colen is said by Aeneas Sylvius to have answered the Emperour Sigismund, when he askt him, What was the way to be saved; that he must be what he purposed or promised to be, when he was last troubled with the stone and the gout; So may we hereafter answer these.
8. Another part of our Ministerial Oversight consisteth in the right comforting the consciences of the troubled, & settling our people in a well grounded peace. But this I have spoken of elsewhere, and others have done it more at large.