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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.
SECT. II.
Among the many things that are yet sadly out of order in the best, I shall touch upon these few particulars following.
AMong the many things that are yet sadly out of order in the best, I shall touch upon these few particulars following.
1. One of our most heinous & palpable sins is Pride: A sin that hath too much interest in the best; but is more hateful & unexcusable in us then in any men. Yet is it so prevalent in some of us, that it inditeth our discourses for us, it chooseth us our company, it formeth our countenances, it putteth the accents and emphasis upon our words; when we reason, it is the determiner and exciter of our Cogitations? It fills some mens minds with aspiring desires and designs: It possesseth them with envious and bitter thoughts against those that stand in their light, or by any means do eclipse their glory, or hinder the progress of their idolized Reputation. O what a constant companion, what a tyrannous commander, what a fly and subtle insinuating enemy is this sin of Pride! It goes with men to the Draper, the Mercer, the Taylor; it chooseth them their cloth, their trimming and their fashion. It dresseth them in the morning, at least the out side. Fewer Ministers would rustle it out in the fashion in hair and habit, if it were not for the command of this tyrannous vice. And I would that were all, or the worst: But alas how frequently doth it go with us to our studies, and there set with us and do our work? How oft doth it chose our subject? and more often chose our words and ornaments. God biddeth us be as plain as we can,