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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.
And to know that things are past your reach, and to know how ignorant you are, one would think should be no great cause of Pride! However, do not the Devils know more then you? And will you be Proud of that which the Devils do excel you in? Yea to some I may say as Salvian, li. 4. de Gubern. p. 98. Quid tibi blandiris O homo quisquis es, Credulitate, quae sine timore atque obsequio Dei nulla est? aliquid plus Daemones habent. Tu emin unam rem habes tantummodo; illi duat. Tu Credulitatem habes; non habes timorem: illi & Credulitatem habent pariter & timorem. Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people; and how unfit is it then that we should be proud our selves? We must study Humility, and Preach Humility; and must we not possess and practice it? A proud Preacher of Humility, is at least a self-condemning man.
And to know that things are past your reach, and to know how ignorant you are, one would think should be no great cause of Pride! However, do not the Devils know more then you? And will you be Proud of that which the Devils do excell you in? Yea to some I may say as Salvian, li. 4. de Gubern. p. 98. Quid tibi blandiris O homo quisquis es, Credulitate, quae sine timore atque obsequio Dei nulla est? aliquid plus Daemones habent. Tu emin unam rem habes tantummodo; illi duat. Tu Credulitatem habes; non habes timorem: illi & Credulitatem habent pariter & timorem. Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denyal and humility to our people; and how unfit is it then that we should be proud our selves? We must study Humility, and Preach Humility; and must we not possess and practice it? A proud Preacher of Humility, is at least a self-condemning man.
What a sad case is it that so vile a sin is no more easily discerned by us? but many that are most Proud, can blame it in others, and take no notice of it in themselves. ⟨p. 179⟩The world takes notice of some among us, that they have aspiring minds, and seek for the highest room, and must be the Rulers, and bear the sway where-ever they come, or else there is no standing before them. No man must contradict them that will not partake of the fruits of their indignation: In any consultations, they come not to search after truth, but to dictate to others that perhaps are fit to teach them. In a word, they have such arrogant domineering spirits, that the world rings of it; and yet they will not see it in themselves.