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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.
Direction 9. At the dismissing of them do these two things. 1. Again lenify their minds by a deprecation of offence in a word; E. G. [I pray you take it not ill that I have put you to this trouble, or dealt thus freely with you: Its as little pleasure to me as to you, if I did not know these things to be true and necessary, I would have spared this labour to my self and you: But I know that we shall be here together but a little while: we are almost at the world to come already; and therefore its time for us all to look about us, and see that we be ready when God shall call us.]
Direction 9. At the dismissing of them do these two things. 1. Again lenifie their minds by a deprecation of offence in a word; E. G. [I pray you take it not ill that I have put you to this trouble, or dealt thus freely with you: Its as little pleasure to me as to you, if I did not know these things to be true and necessary, I would have spared this labour to my self and you: But I know that we shall be here together but a little while: we are almost at the world to come already; and therefore its time for us all to look about us, and see that we be ready when God shall call us.]
2. Because it is but seldom that we our selves shall have opportunity to speak with the same persons, set them in a way for the perfecting of what is begun. 1. Engage the Governor of each family to call all his family to account every Lords day before they go to bed, what they can rehearse of the Catechism: and so to continue till they have all learned it perfectly: and ⟨p. 448⟩when they have done so, yet still to continue to hear them recite it, at least once in two or three Lords days, that they may not forget it. For, even to the most judicious it will be an excellent help to have still in memory, a sum of the Christian Doctrine, for matter, method and words. 2. As for the Rulers of families themselves or those that are under such rulers as will not help them, if they have learnt some small part of the Catechism only, engage them either to come again to you (though before their course) when they have learnt the rest, or else to go to some able experienced neighbour, and recite it to them, and take their assistance when you cannot have time your self.