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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.
4. Make them sensible of the mischiefs of Schism, and the great and certain obligations that lie upon us, all to maintain the Churches Unity and Peace.
5. When a fire is kindled, resist it in the beginning, and make not light of the smallest spark: and therefore go presently to the infected person, and follow him by the means hereafter mentioned, till he be recovered.
6. Specially use a fit diversion: when a small Controversy begins to endanger the Church, raise a greater your self, which you have better advantage to manage, and which is not like to make a division. That is; let them know that there are far greater difficulties then theirs to be first resolved (such as some of the Questions before mentioned) and so give them a Catalogue of them, and set them a work upon them, that they may be matter of avocation from that fore, where the humours begin their conflux, and also that they may be humbled in the sense of their ignorance, and their proud self-conceits may be somewhat abated.
6. Specially use a fit diversion: when a small Controversie begins to endanger the Church, raise a greater your self, which you have better advantage to mannage, and which is not like to make a division. That is; let them know that there are far greater difficulties then theirs to be first resolved (such as some of the Questions before mentioned) and so give them a Catalogue of them, and set them a work upon them, that they may be matter of avocation from that fore, where the humors begin their conflux, and also that they may be humbled in the sense of their ignorance, and their proud self-conceits may be somewhat abated.