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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. We have also a base man-pleasing disposition, which will make us let men perish lest we lose their love, and let them go quietly to hell, least we should make them angry with us for seeking their salvation: and we are ready to venture on the displeasure of ⟨p. 352⟩God, and venture our people into everlasting misery, rather then get ill-will to ourselves. This distemper must be diligently resisted,
3. We have some of us also a foolish bashfulness, which makes us very backward to begin with them, and to speak plainly to them: we are so modest forsooth, that we blush to speak for Christ, or to contradict the Devil, or to save a soul: when shameful works we are less ashamed of.
4. We are so carnal, that we are prone by our fleshly interests, to be drawn to unfaithfulness in the work of Christ. Lest we lose our Tithes, or bring trouble upon ourselves, or set people against us, and many such like. All these require diligence for their resistance.
4. We are so carnal, that we are prone by our fleshly interests, to be drawn to unfaithfulness in the work of Christ. Lest we lose our Tythes, or bring trouble upon ourselves, or set people against us, and many such like. All these require diligence for their resistance.