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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.
3. By pretending of Prophetical and other obscurer passages of the Scriptures that they have a greater objective Evidence, and we a greater certainty of their meaning, then indeed is so.
As I have met with some so confident of their right understanding of the Revelation (which Calvin ⟨p. 295⟩durst not expound, and profest he understood it not) that they have framed part of their Confessions or Articles of faith out of it; and grounded the weightyest actions of their lives upon their exposition; and could confidently tell in our late changes and differences, which side was in the right and which in the wrong, and all from the Revelation; and thence would fetch such arguments as would carry all, if you would but grant the soundness of their expositions; but if you put them to prove that, you marred all.
As I have met with some so confident of their right understanding of the Revelation (which Calvin ⟨p. 295⟩durst not expound, and profest he understood it not) that they have framed part of their Confessions or Articles of faith out of it; and grounded the weightyest actions of their lives upon their exposition; and could confidently tell in our late changes and differences, which side was in the right and which in the wrong, and all from the Revelation; and thence would fetch such arguments as would carry all, if you would but grant the soundness of their expositions; but if you put them to prove that, you marr'd all.
And these corruptions of sacred Doctrine by their Additions are of two sorts: some that are the first Inventers: and others that are the propagators and maintainers: and these when Additions grow old, do commonly maintain them under the notion of ancient verities, and oppose the ancient verities under the notion of Novelty, as is before said.