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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.
1. How sad a sign do we make it to be in our preaching to our people, to live in the wilful continued omission of any known duty? And shall we do so even year after year and all our days. If excuses will take off the danger of this sign, what man will not find them as well as you? Read Amesius medul. cap. 37. de Disciplin. Eccles. & Gillespie's, Aaron's rod, ⟨p. 303⟩with Rutherford and many more that are written to prove the Need and Dueness of Discipline, saith Ames. ib. sect. 5. Immo peccat in Christum authorem ac institutorem quisquis non facit quod in se est, ad hanc Disciplinam in Ecclesiis Dei constituendam & promovendam. And do you think it safe to live and dye in such a known sin?
1. How sad a sign do we make it to be in our preaching to our people, to live in the willful continued omission of any known duty? And shall we do so even year after year and all our daies. If excuses will take off the danger of this sign, what man will not find them as well as you? Read Amesius medul. cap. 37. de Disciplin. Eccles. & Gelespi's, Aarons rod, ⟨p. 303⟩with Rutherford and many more that are written to prove the Need and Dueness of Discipline, saith Ames. ib. sect. 5. Immo peccat in Christum authorem ac institutorem quisquis non facit quod in se est, ad hanc Disciplinam in Ecclesiis Dei constituendam & promovendam. And do you think it safe to live and dye in such a known sin?
2. You gratify the present designs of dividers, whose business is to unchurch us and unchristen us: to prove our Parishes no true Churches (and our selves no baptized Christians.) For if you take them for people uncapable of Discipline, they must be uncapable of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and other Church-Communion; and then they are no Church. And so you will plainly seem to preach merely as they do, to gather Churches where there were none before. And indeed if that be your case that your people are not Christians, and you have no particular Churches, and so are no Pastors, tell us so and manifest it, and we shall not blame you.