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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.
but if any other party suffer, they little regard it, as if it were no loss at all to the Church If it be the smallest parcel that possesseth not many Nations, no nor Cities on earth, they are ready to carry it as if they were the whole Church, and as if it went well with the Church when it goes well with them. We cry down the Pope as Antichrist for including the Church in the Romish pale, and no doubt but it is an abominable schism: But alas how many do imitate them too far, while we reprove them! And as they foist the word Roman into their Creed, and turn the Catholic Church into the Roman Catholic Church: as if there were no other Catholics, and the Church were of no larger extent; so is it with many others as to their several ⟨p. 185⟩parties. Some will have it to be the Lutheran Catholic Church, and some the Reformed Catholic Church (as if it were all reformed) some the Anabaptist Catholic Church, and so of some others. And if they differ not among themselves, they are little troubled at differing from others, though it be from almost all the Christian world. The Peace of their party, they take for the Peace of the Church: No wonder therefore if they carry it no further.
but if any other party suffer, they little regard it, as if it were no loss at all to the Church If it be the smallest parcel that possesseth not many Nations, no nor Cities on earth, they are ready to carry it as if they were the whole Church, and as if it went well with the Church when it gots well with them. We cry down the Pope as Antichrist for including the Church in the Romish pale, and no doubt but it is an abominable schism: But alas how many do imitate them too far, while we reprove them! And as they foist the word Roman into their Creed, and turn the Catholike Church into the Roman Catholike Church: as if there were no other Catholikes, and the Church were of no larger extent; so is it with many others as to their several ⟨p. 185⟩parties. Some will have it to be the Lutheran Catholike Church, and some the Reformed Catholike Church (as if it were all reformed) some the Anabaptist Catholike Church, and so of some others. And if they differ not among themselves, they are little troubled at differing from others, though it be from almost all the Christian world. The Peace of their party, they take for the Peace of the Church: No wonder therefore if they carry it no further.