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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.
A man would think now that if the heart of man be curable, we should by this time be all brought to the sense of our miscarriages, and be prepared to a closure on any reasonable terms? Who would think but after all the smart of our divisions, we should long ere this have got together, and prayed, and consulted our selves into peace! But alas there is no such matter done; and few do I find that mind the doing of it. We continue our quarrels as hot as ever: As Salvian saith in another case, Miseri jam sumus: & nec dum nugaces (discordes) esse cessamus. l. 6. p. 20 2. Et pag. 200. Mala incessabiliter malis addimus, & peccata peccatis cumulamus: & cum maxima nostri pars jam perierit, id agimus ut pereamus omnes.—Nos non vicinos nostros tantum ardere vidimus, sed ipsi jam ex maxima nostrorum corporum parte arsimus. Et quid hoc, proh nefas, mali est? arsimus, arsimus, & tamen flammas quibus jam arsimus non timemus. Nam quod non ubique agantur quae prius acta sunt, miseriae est beneficium, non disciplinae. Facile hoc probo. Da enim prioris temporis statum, & statim ubique sunt quae fuerunt.
A man would think now that if the heart of man be cureable, we should by this time be all brought to the sense of our miscarriages, and be prepared to a closure on any reasonable terms? Who would think but after all the smart of our divisions, we should long ere this have got together, and prayed, and consulted our selves into peace! But alas there is no such matter done; and few do I find that mind the doing of it. We continue our quarrels as hot as ever: As Salvian saith in another case, Miseri jam sumus: & nec dum nugaces (discordes) esse cessamus. l. 6. p. 20 2. Et pag. 200. Mala incessabiliter malis addimus, & peccata peccatis cumulamus: & cum maxima nostri pars iam perierit, id agimus ut pereamus omnes.—Nos non vicinos nostros tantum ardere vidimus, sed ipsi iam ex maxima nostrorum corporum parte arsimus. Et quid hoc, proh nefas, mali est? arsimus, arsimus, & tamen flammas quibus iam arsimus non timemus. Nam quod non ubique agantur quae prius acta sunt, miseriae est beneficium, non disciplinae. Facile hoc probo. Da enim prioris temporis statum, & statim ubique sunt quae fuerunt.
The minds of many are as much exasperated or estranged as ever. Three sorts I meet with, that all are too backward to any accommodation.