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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.
3. It is orderly to begin with the fundamentals, because they bear up the rest, which suppose them, flow from them, and cannot be understood without them.
4. It is the note of a Proud vain-glorious hypocrite, to make a flourish about lesser things, and yet either to be ignorant of the greater, or to scorn to give that account of his knowledge, which the people whom he despiseth, refuse not to give.
If he yield to you, ask him only such questions as ⟨p. 456⟩seem to be of great weight, and yet strain him up a peg higher, then you do the common people; and especially keep out the predicate usually from your Question, and put him most upon defining or distinguishing, or expounding some terms or sentences of Scripture, &c. As such questions as these may be put to him, which call for definitions, wherein its ten to one, but you will find him ignorant. E. G [What is God? What is Jesus Christ? What is the Holy-Ghost? What is Person in the Trinity? How many natures hath Christ? Was Christ a creature before his Incarnation, or the Creation? Is he called the first-born of all creatures as God, or as man? Is he called, the Image of the Invisible God, and the express Image of the Fathers person or subsistence as a creature, or as God? Was Adam bound to believe in Christ? Was one, or two Covenants made with Adam before his fall? Did the first Covenant of Nature make any promise of everlasting celestial glory? Did it threaten hell fire, or only temporal death? Did it threaten eternal torment to the soul only, or to the body also? Should there have been any Resurrection of the body, if Christ had not come to procure it? Should Christ have come, or been our Head, or have brought us to glory, if man had not fallen? What is the first Covenant? what, its conditions? What the second Covenant, and its Conditions? What was the difference between the Covenant with Adam, and that by Moses? Was it a Covenant of Works, or of Grace that was made by Moses? What were the conditions of salvation before Christs Incarnation? What is forgiveness of sin? What is Justification?