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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.
16. All the Judgements that God hath executed on them in this age before our eyes, will condemn us if we be unfaithful: Hath he made the idle Shepherds and sensual drones, to stink in the nostrils of the people? and will he honour us, if we be idle and sensual? Hath he sequestered them, and cast them our of their habitations, and out of the Pulpits, and laid them by, as dead, while they are alive, and made them a hissing and a by-word in the Land? and yet dare we imitate them? Are not their sufferings our warnings? and did not all this befall them for our examples? If any thing in the world should waken Ministers to self-denial and diligence, one would think we had seen enough to do it! If the Judgements of God on one man should do so much, what should so many years judgement on so many hundreds of them do? Would you have imitated the old world, if you had seen the flood that drowned them! Would you have taken up the sins of Sodom, Pride, Fullness of bread, Idleness, if you had stood by and seen the flames of Sodom! ⟨p. 377⟩This was Gods argument to deter the Israelites from the Nations sins, because, for all these things they had seen them cast one before them. Who would have been a Judas that had seen him hanged and burst? and who would have been a lying sacrilegious hypocrite, that had seen Ananias and Sapphira dye? And who would not have been afraid to contradict the Gospel, that had seen •l•mas smitten blind? And shall we prove self-seeking, idle Ministers, when we have seen God scourging such out of his Temple, and sweeping them away as dirt into the Channels? God forbid! For then how great, and how manifold will our condemnation be?
16. All the Judgements that God hath executed on them in this age before our eyes, will condemn us if we be unfaithful: Hath he made the idle Shepherds and sensual drones, to stink in the nostrils of the people? and will he honour us, if we be idle and sensual? Hath he sequestred them, and cast them our of their habitations, and out of the Pulpits, and laid them by, as dead, while they are alive, and made them a hissing and a by-word in the Land? and yet dare we imitate them? Are not their sufferings our warnings? and did not all this befall them for our examples? If any thing in the world should waken Ministers to selfdenyal and diligence, one would think we had seen enough to do it! If the Judgements of God on one man should do so much, what should so many years judgement on so many hundreds of them do? Would you have imitated the old world, if you had seen the flood that drowned them! Would you have taken up the sins of Sodom, Pride, Fulness of bread, Idleness, if you had stood by and seen the flames of Sodom!