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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.
specially about God him self. And (which is the next part of this Direction.)
3. In such a Case, so contrive the predicate into ⟨p. 430⟩your Question that they may perceive what you mean, and that it is not a nice Definition, but a necessary solution that you expect, and look not after words but things, and there leave them to a bare Yea or Nay, or the mere elocution of one of the two descriptions which your self shall propound. As E. G. What is God? is he made of flesh and blood as we are? or is he an invisible spirit? Is he a man or is he not? Had he any beginning? Can he dye? what is faith? Is it a Believing all the word of God? what is it to Believe in Christ? Is it all one as to become a true Christian? Or to believe that Christ is the Saviour of the world, and to Accept him for your Saviour to pardon, teach, govern and glorify you? What is Repentance? Is it only to be sorry for sin, or is it, The change of the mind from sin to God, or both?
3. In such a Case, so contrive the predicate into ⟨p. 430⟩your Question that they may perceive what you mean, and that it is not a nice Definition, but a necessary solution that you expect, and look not after words but things, and there leave them to a bare Yea or Nay, or the meer elocution of one of the two descriptions which your self shall propound. As E. G. What is God? is he made of flesh and blood as we are? or is he an invisible spirit? Is he a man or is he not? Had he any beginning? Can he dye? what is faith? Is it a Believing all the word of God? what is it to Believe in Christ? Is it all one as to become a true Christian? Or to believe that Christ is the Saviour of the world, and to Accept him for your Saviour to pardon, teach, govern and glorifie you? What is Repentance? Is it only to be sorry for sin, or is it, The change of the mind from sin to God, or both?