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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.
9. But above all, before you part, yea or before you ⟨p. 461⟩debate the Controversy, see that you do sum up the precedent Truths wherein you are both agreed. 1. Know whether he agree to all that is in the Catechism, which you teach the people? 2. Whether he suppose that you may attain salvation, if you be true to so much as you are agreed in? 3. Whether they that are so far agreed as you are, should not live in Love and Peace, as children of the same God, and members of the same Christ, and heirs of the same Kingdom? 4. Whether you are not bound, notwithstanding your smaller difference, to be helpers in the main work of the Gospel for the conversion and saving of souls? 5. Whether then they are not bound to manage the private difference so as they may not hinder the main work, and therefore to let the lesser stoop to the greater? 6 Whether they ought not to hold communion in public worship, and Church-relation, with those that are so far agreed, and walk in the fear of God? 7. And whether it be not schism to separate from them, for the sake of that small disagreement, themselves being not necessitated by Communion to any actual sin?
9. But above all, before you part, yea or before you ⟨p. 461⟩debate the Controversie, see that you do sum up the precedent Truths wherein you are both agreed. 1. Know whether he agree to all that is in the Catechism, which you teach the people? 2. Whether he suppose that you may attain salvation, if you be true to so much as you are agreed in? 3. Whether they that are so far agreed as you are, should not live in Love and Peace, as children of the same God, and members of the same Christ, and heirs of the same Kingdom? 4. Whether you are not bound, notwithstanding your smaller difference, to be helpers in the main work of the Gospel for the conversion and saving of souls? 5. Whether then they are not bound to mannage the private difference so as they may not hinder the main work, and therefore to let the lesser stoop to the greater? 6 Whether they ought not to hold communion in publike worship, and Church-relation, with those that are so far agreed, and walk in the fear of God? 7. And whether it be not schism to separate from them, for the sake of that small disagreement, themselves being not necessitated by Communion to any actual sin?