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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.
and all that truly Repented and believed in him and were renewed by his spirit, and renounced this world for the hopes of a better shall be judged to live with God in Glory, and shall be like to his Angels, and praise him for ever; and the rest that repented not, and believed not in him, but lived to the flesh and the world, shall be condemned to everlasting misery. So that you may see by this, that mans Happiness is not in this ⟨p. 436⟩world but in the next, and that all men have lost their hopes of that Happiness by sin, and that Jesus Christ the only Son of God and the Redeemer of the world hath recovered it for us by the price of his blood shed and hath made a New Covenant with us, assuring us of Life and Salvation, if we Repent and believe in him for that life, and mortify our fleshly desires: To which end he sendeth forth his holy Spirit to convert all that shall be saved, and to turn their hearts from this world to God. If ever you mean to be saved, therefore it must be thus with you: Your former sins must be the grief of your soul, and you must fly to a crucified Christ as your only Refuge from the deserved Curse, and the Spirit of Christ must Convert you, and dwell in you and make you wholly a new Creature: or there is no salvation.] Some such short plain rehearsal of the Principles of Religion in the most familiar manner that you can devise, with a brief touch of application in the end, will be necessary when you deal with the grossly ignorant: And if you perceive they understand you not, go over it again, and ask them whether they understand it, and seek to leave it fixed in their memories.
and all that truly Repented and believed in him and were renewed by his spirit, and renounced this world for the hopes of a better shall be judged to live with God in Glory, and shall be like to his Angels, and praise him for ever; and the rest that repented not, and believed not in him, but lived to the flesh and the world, shall be condemned to everlasting misery. So that you may see by this, that mans Happiness is not in this ⟨p. 436⟩world but in the next, and that all men have lost their hopes of that Happiness by sin, and that Jesus Christ the only Son of God and the Redeemer of the world hath recovered it for us by the price of his blood shed and hath made a New Covenant with us, assuring us of Life and Salvation, if we Repent and believe in him for that life, and mortifie our fleshly desires: To which end he sendeth forth his holy Spirit to convert all that shall be saved, and to turn their hearts from this world to God. If ever you mean to be saved, therefore it must be thus with you: Your formersins must be the grief of your soul, and you must fly to a crucified Christ as your only Refuge from the deserved Curse, and the Spirit of Christ must Convert you, and dwell in you and make you wholly a new Creature: or there is no salvation.] Some such short plain rehearsal of the Principles of Religion in the most familiar manner that you can devise, with a brief touch of application in the end, will be necessary when you deal with the grosly ignorant: And if you perceive they understand you not, go over it again, and ask them whether they understand it, and seek to leave it fixed in their memories.