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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.
10. All the Sermons that we preach to them to set out the danger of a natural state, the evil of sin, the need of Christ, and Grace, the Joys of heaven, and the torments of hell, yea and the truth of Christian Religion, will rise up in Judgement against such and condemn them. And a sad review it will be to themselves, when they shall be forced to think Did I tell them of such great dangers and hopes in public, and w••ld I do no more to help them in private? What tell them daily of threatened damnation, and yet let ⟨p. 375⟩them run into it so easily? Tell them of such a Glory, and scarce speak a word to them personally to help them to it? Were these such great matters with me at Church, and so small when I came home?] All this is dreadful self-condemnation.
10. All the Sermons that we preach to them to set out the danger of a natural state, the evil of sin, the need of Christ, and Grace, the Joyes of heaven, and the torments of hell, yea and the truth of Christian Religion, will rise up in Judgement against such and condemn them. And a sad review it will be to themselves, when they shall be forc't to think Did I tell them of such great dangers and hopes in publike, and w••ld I do no more to help them in private? What tell them daily of threatned damnation, and yet let ⟨p. 375⟩them run into it so easily? Tell them of such a Glory, and scarce speak a word to them personallly to help them to it? Were these such great matters with me at Church, and so small when I came home?] All this is dreadful self-condemnation.
11. All the Sermons that we have preached to persuade other men to such duties, as neighbours to exhort one another daily, and plainly to rebuke them, and parents and masters to do it to their children and servants, will rise up in Judgement against such, and condemn them. For will you persuade others to that which you will not do (as far as you can) your selves? When you threaten them for neglecting it, you threaten your own souls.