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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.
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?
4. And as you must do thus when you come to hard points as Definitions or the like, so in all points where you perceive that they understand not the meaning and stress of your question? there you must first draw out their answer by an Equipollent or expository question, or if that will not do, thus frame the answer into your question, and demand but his Yea or Nay: yea if it be never so easy a point that you are upon, you must do thus at last in case by the first question you have an unsatisfactory answer. E. G. I have oft asked some very ignorant people, How do you think of your sins, so many and great sins shall be pardoned? And they tell me by their Repenting and mending their lives; and never mention Jesus Christ. I ask them further, But do you think that your amendment can make God