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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.
Et pag. 180. O miseriam lacrymabilem. O miseriam luctuosam! quam dissimilis nunc a seipso est populus Christian•s, id est, ab eo qui fuit quondam!—Ecce in quid reducti sumus, ut beatam fore Ecclesiam judicemus, si vel tantum in se boni habeat quantum mali. Nam quomado non beatam arbitremur, si mediam plebis partem haberet innoxiam, quam pene totam nunc esse plangimus criminosam—superfluè unius scelera deflevimus; aut omnes enim, aut pene omnes flendi atque lugendi sunt.
Et pag. 195, 196. Omnia amamus; omnia colimus; solus nobis in com•aratione omnium Deus vilis est? siquando enim veniret, (quod saepe evenit) ut eodem die & festivitas Ecclesiastica & ludi publici agantur, quaeso ab omnium Conscientia, quis locus majores Christianorum virorum copias haberet? Caveane ludi publici, au atrium Dei? Et templum omnes magis sectentur, au theatrum? dicta Evangeliorum magis diligant au thymelicorum? verba vitae, an mortis? verba Christi, an mimi? Non est dubium quin illud magis amemus quod anteponimus.
Too like to these here described were our times grown, through the fault of those that professed themselves to have the oversight of their souls. A most sad thing it was to see those men that undertook to guide men in the ways of life, to be the chief means of discouraging them; and to hear them make a mock at holiness, that should have devoted their Doctrine and […] thereto. The accusation may seem harsh to those of after-times that knew not this! or that by the Patrons of iniquity are persuaded of the ⟨p. 161⟩contrary. But I say as Salvian, l. 6. p. 197. Sed gravis est forsitan haec atque iniqua congestio. Gravis profecto, si falsa.