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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.
CHAP. VI.
SECT. I.
1. THE first reasons by which I shall persuade you to this duty are taken from the benefits of it. The second sort are taken from the difficulty. And the third from the Necessity, and the many obligations that are upon us for the performance of it. And to these three heads I shall reduce them all.
1. THE first reasons by which I shall perswade you to this duty are taken from the benefits of it. The second sort are taken from the difficulty. And the third from the Necessity, and the many obligations that are upon us for the performance of it. And to these three heads I shall reduce them all.
1. And for the first of these; when I look before me, and consider what through the blessing of God, this work well managed is like to produce, it makes my heart to leap for joy. Truly Brethren, you have begun a most blessed work: and such as your own consciences may rejoice in, and your Parishes rejoice in, and the Nation rejoice in, and the child that is yet unborn; yea thousands and millions for ought we know may have cause to bless God for, ⟨p. 309⟩