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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.
1. That you make a difference according to the difference of the persons that you have to deal with. To the dull and obstinate you must be more earnest and sharp: To the tender and timorous that are already humbled, you must rather insist on direction and confirmation. To the youthful you must lay greater shame on sensual voluptuousness, and show them the nature and necessity of mortification: To the Aged you must do more to disgrace this present world, and make them apprehensive of the nearness of their change, and the aggravations of their sin, if they shall live and dye in ignorance, or impenitency. To Inferiors and the Younger, you must be more free, to Superiors and Elders more reverend: To the rich this world must be more disgraced, and the nature and necessity of self-denial opened, and the damnableness of preferring the present prosperity to the future, with the necessity of improving their talents in well-doing. To the poor we must show the great Riches of Glory which is propounded to them in the Gospel, and how well the present things may be spared, where the everlasting may be got. Also those sins must be most insisted on, which each ones age, or sex, or temperature of body, or calling and employment in the world, doth most incline them to. ⟨p. 450⟩As in females, loquacity, evil speeches, passion, malice, pride, &c. In males, drunkenness, ambition, &c. Of all which and abundance more differences, calling to us for different carriage; See Gregor. Mag. de Officio Pastor.
1. That you make a difference according to the difference of the persons that you have to deal with. To the dull and obstinate you must be more earnest and sharp: To the tender and timerous that are already humbled, you must rather insist on direction and confirmation. To the youthful you must lay greater shame on sensual voluptuousness, and shew them the nature and necessity of mortification: To the Aged you must do more to disgrace this present world, and make them apprehensive of the nearness of their change, and the aggravations of their sin, if they shall live and dye in ignorance, or impenitency. To Inferiors and the Younger, you must be more free, to Superiors and Elders more reverend: To the rich this world must be more disgraced, and the nature and necessity of self-denyal opened, and the damnableness of preferring the present prosperity to the future, with the necessity of improving their talents in well-doing. To the poor we must shew the great Riches of Glory which is propounded to them in the Gospel, and how well the present things may be spared, where the everlasting may be got. Also those sins must be most insisted on, which each ones age, or sex, or temperature of body, or calling and employment in the world, doth most encline tehm to.