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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.
5. In this Exclusion or Removal, the Minister or Governors of that Church are Authoritatively to charge the people in the name of the Lord to avoid Communion with him: and to pronounce him one, whose Communion the Church is bound to avoid: and the Peoples duty is Obedientially to ⟨p. 109⟩avoid him, in case the Pastors charge contradict not the word of God. So that he hath the Guiding or Governing Power; and they have, 1. A discerning power, whether his charge be just. 2. And an executive power; For its they that must execute the sentence in part, by avoiding the Rejected, as he himself must execute it by denying him those Ordinances and Privileges not due to him, whereof he is the Administrator.
5. In this Exclusion or Removal, the Minister or Governors of that Church are Authoritatively to charge the people in the name of the Lord to avoid Communion with him: and to pronounce him one, whose Communion the Church is bound to avoid: and the Peoples duty is Obedientially to ⟨p. 109⟩avoid him, in case the Pastors charge contradict not the word of God. So that he hath the Guiding or Governing Power; and they have, 1. A discerning power, whether his charge be just. 2. And an executive power; For its they that must execute the sentence in part, by avoiding the Rejected, as he himself must execute it by denying him those Ordinances and Priviledges not due to him, whereof he is the Administrator.
6. It is very convenient to pray for the Repentance and restoration, even of the Excommunicate.
6. It is very convenient to pray for the Repentance and restauration, even of the Excommunicate.