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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.
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.
1. Every Christian is Obliged to do all that he can for the salvation of others, but every Minister is doubly obliged, because he is separated to the Gospel of Christ, and is to give up himself wholly to that ⟨p. 356⟩work. Rom. 1. 1. 1 Tim. 4. 15. It is needless to make any further question of our Obligation, when we know that this work is needful to our peoples conversion and salvation, and that we are in general commanded to do all that is needful to those ends, as far as we are able. That they are necessary to those ends hath been showed before; and shall be more anon. Even the ancient professors, have need to be taught the Principles of Gods Oracles, if they have neglected it, or forgot it, saith the Apostle, [Greek or Hebrew]