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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. 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.
5. The greatest impediment of all is, that we are too weak in the faith: So that when we should set upon a man for his conversion with all our might, if there be not the stirrings of unbelief within us, to raise up actual questionings of Heaven and Hell, whether the things that we should earnestly press be true, yet at least the belief of them is so weak, that it will hardly excite in us so kindly, resolute, and constant zeal: So that our whole motion will be but weak, because the spring of faith is so weak. O what need therefore have all Ministers for themselves and their work, to look well to their faith, especially that their Assent to the truth of Scripture, about the Joy and Torments of the life to come, be sound and lively.