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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.
2. By multiplying our Evidence and Reasons for the same truth.
3. By a clearer and deeper apprehension of the same Evidence and Reasons which before we had but superficially received▪ For one that is strong in knowledge seeth the same truth, as in the clear light, which the weak do see, but as in the twi light. To all this must be added also the fuller Improvement of the Truth received to its ends.
I shall give you the sum of my meaning in the words of that great enemy of Innovation, Vincent. Lirinens. c. 28. Sed for sitan dicit aliquis: Nullusneergo in Ecclesiâ Christi profectus haeb•bitur? Religionis Habeatur plane, & maximus: Nam quis ille est tam invidus hominibus, tam exosus Deo, qui isiud probibere conetur? sed it a tamen ut verè profect•• sit ille fidei, non permutatio. Siquidem ad perfectum pertinet, ut ⟨p. 297⟩in semet ipsâ unaquaeque res amplificetur: ad permutationem vero ut aliquid ex alio in aliud transvertatur. Crescat igitur oportet, & multum, vehementerque proficiat, tam si•gulorum quam omnium; tam unius hominis quam totius Ecclesiae aetatum ac seculorum gradib•s intelligentia, scientia; sapientiae; sed in quo duntoxat gene•e, in eodem scilicet dogmate, eodem sensu, e•demque sententia.
I shall give you the summe of my meaning in the words of that great enemy of Innovation, Vincent. Lirinens. c. 28. Sed for sitan dicit aliquis: Nullusneergo in Ecclesiâ Christi profectus haebbitur? Religionis Habeatur plane, & maximus: Nam quis ille est tam invidus hominibus, tam exosus Deo, qui isiud probibere conetur? sed it a tamen ut verè profect sit ille fidei, non permutatio. Siquidem ad perfectum pertinet, ut