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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.
That to see God in his creatures, and to love him and converse with him, was the employment of man in his upright state; That this is so far from ceasing to be our duty, that it is the work of Christ by faith to bring us back to it: and therefore the most holy men are the most excellent students of Gods works: and none but the holy can rightly study them, or know them. His works are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein, Psal. 111. 2. But not for themselves but for him that made them. Your study of Physics and other Sciences, is not worth a rush, if it be not God by them that you seek after. To see and admire to reverence and adore, to love and delight in God appearing to us in his works, and purposely to peruse them for the knowledge of God, this is the true and only Philosophy, and the contrary is mere foolery, and so called and called again by God himself. This is the sanctification of your studies, when they are devoted to God, and when he is the life of them all, and they all intend him as the end, and the principal Object.
That to see God in his creatures, and to love him and converse with him, was the employment of man in his upright state; That this is so far from ceasing to be our duty, that it is the work of Christ by faith to bring us back to it: and therefore the most holy men are the most excellent students of Gods works: and none but the holy can rightly study them, or know them. His works are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein, Psal. 111. 2. But not for themselves but for him that made them. Your study of Physicks and other Sciences, is not worth a rush, if it be not God by them that you seek after. To see and admire to reverence and adore, to love and delight in God appearing to us in his works, and purposely to peruse them for the knowledge of God, this is the true and only Philosophy, and the contrary is meer foolery, and so called and called again by God himself. This is the sanctification of your studies, when they are devoted to God, and when he is the life of them all, and they all intend him as the end, and the principal Object.