A26932:836
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.
Its like you will have some come to you amongst the rest, that when they should give an account of their faith, will fall into a Teaching and Contentious discourse, and one will tell you, that you have no true Church, because you have such bad members: another will ask you, by what authority you baptize Infant•? another will ask you, how you can be a true Minister, if you had your Ordination from Prelates? and another will tell you, that you are no true Minister because you had not your Ordination from Prelates: another will ask you, What Scripture you have for Praying or singing Psalm• in a mixed Assembly? and another will quarrel with you, because you administer not the Lords Supper to them, in the gesture and manner as they desire, and were •ont to receive it; or because you exercise any Discipline among them. If any such person should come to you, and thus seek to divert your better discourse, I' should think it best to take this course with them.
Its like you will have some come to you amongst the rest, that when they should give an account of their faith, will fall into a Teaching and Contentious d•scourse, and one will tell you, that you have no t•ue Church, because you have such bad members: another will ask you, by what authority you baptize Infant•? another will ask you, how you can be a true Minister, if you had your Ordination from Prelates? and another will tell you, that you are no true Minister because you had not your Ordination from Prelates: another will ask you, What Scripture you have for Praying or singing Psalm• in a mixt Assembly? and another will quarrel with you, because you administer not the Lords Supper to them, in the gesture and manner as they desire, and were •ont to receive it; or because you exercise any Discipline among them. If any such person should come to you, and thus seek to divert your better discourse, I' should think it best to take this course with them.