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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.
1. You have the more need to study and labour for their increase.
2. You must necessarily have that which Amesius makes the lowest degree tolerable, viz. to be supra vulgus fidelium: and it will produce some reverence when they know you are wiser then themselves.
2. You must necessarily have that which Amesius makes the lowest degree tollerable, viz. to be supra vulgus fidelium: and it will produce some reverence when they know you are wiser then themselves.
3. And that which you want in ability, must be made up in the other qualifications; and then your advice may be as successful as others.
If Ministers were content to purchase an interest in their people at the dearest rates to their own flesh, and would condescend to them, and be familiar, and ⟨p. 416⟩loving, and prudent in their carriage, and abound according to their ability in good works, they might do much more with their people then ordinarily they can do. Not that we should much regard an interest in them for our own sakes, but that we may be more capable of promoting the interest of Christ, and of furthering their own salvation: Were it not for their own sakes, it were no great matter whether they love or hate us: but what Commander can do any great service by an Army that hate him? and how can we think that they will much regard our counsel, while they abhor or dis-regard the persons that give it them? Labour therefore for some competent interest in your peoples estimation and affection, and then you may the better prevail with them.