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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. VIII.
5. Another sad discovery, that we have not so devoted our selves and all we have to the service of God, as we ought, is, The Prevalency of worldly fleshly interests too much against the Interest and work of Christ. And this I shall further manifest in these three instances following. 1. Our temporizing. 2. Our too much minding worldly things, and shrinking from duties that will hinder our commodity. 3. Our barrenness in works of Charity, and in the improving of all that we have to our Masters use.
5. ANother sad discovery, that we have not so devoted our selves and all we have to the service of God, as we ought, is, The Prevalency of worldly fleshly interests too much against the Interest and work of Christ. And this I shall further manifest in these three instances following. 1. Our temporizing. 2. Our too much minding worldly things, and shrinking from duties that will hinder our commodity. 3. Our barrenness in works of Charity, and in the improving of all that we have to our Masters use.
1. I would not have any to be thwart and contentious with those that govern them, nor to be disobedient to any of their lawful commands. But it is not the least reproach upon the Ministry, that the most of them for worldly advantage do still suit themselves with the party that is most likely to suit to their ends. If they look for secular advantages, they suit themselves to the secular Power: if for the air of Ecclesiastic applause, then do they suit themselves to the party of Ecclesiastics that is most in credit. This is not a private, but an Epidemical malady. In Constantine's days, how prevalent were the Orthodox? In Constantius days, they almost all turned Arians, so that there were very few Bishops at all that did not apostatize or betray the truth; even of the same