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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.
He that shall live to that happy time, when God will heal his broken Churches, shall see all this that I am now pleading for, reduced to practice, and this moderation take place of the new dividing zeal, and Scripture-sufficiency take place, and all mens Confessions and Comments to be valued only as subservient helps, and not to be the test of Church-Communion, any further then they are exactly the same with Scripture. And till the healing Age come, we cannot expect that healing truths be entertained, because there are not healing spirits in the Leaders of the Church. But when the work is to be done, the workmen will be fitted for it; and blessed will be the agents of so glorious a work.
But because the Love of Unity and Verity, Peace and Purity must be conjunctly manifested, we must avoid the extremes both in Doctrine and Communion. The extremes in Doctrine are on one side, by Innovating Additions: on the other side by envying or hindering the progress of the light. The former is the most dangerous, of which men are guilty these ways.
But because the Love of Unity and Verity, Peace and Purity must be conjunctly manifested, we must avoid the extreams both in Doctrine and Communion. The extreams in Doctrine are on one side, by Innovating Additions: on the other side by envying or hindring the progress of the light. The former is the most dangerous, of which men are guilty these waies.
1. By making new points of faith, or duty.