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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.
III. THE third sort of moving Reasons are drawn from the Necessity of the undertaken work: For if it were not Necessary, the lazy might be discouraged rather then excited, by the forementioned difficulties, as is aforesaid. And if we should here expatiate, we might find matter for a volume by it self. But because I have already been longer then I did intend, I shall only give you a brief hint of some of the general grounds of this Necessity.
III. THE third sort of moving Reasons are drawn from the Necessity of the undertaken work: For if it were not Necessary, the lazy might be discouraged rather then excited, by the forementioned difficulties, as is aforesaid. And if we should here expatiate, we might find matter for a volumn by it self. But because I have already been longer then I did intend, I shall only give you a brief hint of some of the general grounds of this Necessity.
And 1. it is Necessary by Obligation, Ut Officium, Necessitate praeceoti: and 2. It is necessary ad finem; and that, 1. For God. 2. For our neighbours. 3. And for our selves.
1. For the first of these. 1. We have on us the Obligation of Scripture-precepts. 1. General. 2. Special. And 2. the subservient obligation (or the first bound faster on us) by Promises and Threatenings. 3. And these also seconded by executions, even 1. by actual Judgements: 2. and mercies. And lastly, we have the Obligation of our own undertaking upon us. These all deserve your Consideration, but may not be insisted on by me, lest I be over tedious.
1. For the first of these. 1. We have on us the Obligation of Scripture-precepts. 1. General. 2. Special. And 2. the subservient obligation (or the first bound faster on us) by Promises and Threatnings. 3. And these also seconded by executions, even 1. by actual Judgements: 2. and mercies. And lastly, we have the Obligation of our own undertaking upon us. These all deserve your Consideration, but may not be insisted on by me, lest I be over tedious.