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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 10. Have all the names of your Parishioners by you in a book: and when they come and recite the Catechism, note in your Book who come and who do not; and who are so grossly ignorant as to be utterly uncapable of the Lords Supper and other holy Communion, and who not: and as you perceive the necessities of each, so deal with them for the future. But for those, that are utterly obstinate, and will not come to you nor be instructed by you, remember the last Article of our Agreement, to deal with them as the obstinate despisers of Instruction should be deals with, in regard of Communion, and the application of sealing and confirming Ordinances: which is to avoid them, and not hold holy or familiar Communion with them, in the Lords Supper or other Ordinances: and though some Reverend Brethren are for admitting their children to Baptism (and offended with me for contradicting it) yet so cannot I be, nor shall I dare to do it upon any pretences of ⟨p. 449⟩their Ancestors faith, or of a Dogmatical faith of these Rebellious Parents, supposing them both to be such as in that Article we have mentioned. To these particulars, I add this General.
Direction 10. Have all the names of your Parishioners by you in a book: and when they come and recite the Catechism, note in your Book who come and who do not; and who are so grosly ignorant as to be utterly uncapable of the Lords Supper and other holy Communion, and who not: and as you perceive the necessities of each, so deal with them for the future. But for those, that are utterly obstinate, and will not come to you nor be instructed by you, remember the last Article of our Agreement, to deal with them as the obstinate despisers of Instruction should be deals with, in regard of Communion, and the application of sealing and confirming Ordinances: which is to avoid them, and not hold holy or familiar Communion with them, in the Lords Supper or other Ordinances: and though some Reverend Brethren are for admitting their children to Baptism (and offended with me for contradicting it) yet so cannot I be, nor shall I dare to do it upon any pretences of ⟨p. 449⟩their Ancestors faith, or of a Dogmatical faith of these Rebellious Parents, supposing them both to be such as in that Article we have mentioned. To these particulars, I add this General.