A26932:867
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. Be sure to keep up some private meetings, and draw them in among you, and manage them prudently. By this means you may keep them from Dividing meetings among themselves, where they may say what they will behind your back without control, For most Professors are addicted to private meetings, (and well ordered, they are of great use to their edification) and if they have not the opportunity of such as they should have, they will gather to such as they should not have. In the managing of them (as to the present purpose) observe these things.
9. Be sure to keep up some private meetings, and draw them in among you, and mannage them prudently. By this means you may keep them from Dividing meetings among themselves, where they may say what they wil behind your back without controle, For most Professors are addicted to private meetings, (and well ordered, they are of great use to their edification) and if they have not the opportunity of such as they should have, they will gather to such as they should not have. In the mannaging of them (as to the present purpose) observe these things.
1. Be sure to be still with them your selves.
2. Let not the main exercises of the meeting be such as tend to contention, or to private mens proud ostentation of their parts, but such as tend to the edification of the people: Not for private men to preach or expound Scripture, nor (as some do) to let every one of them speak to questions of their own propounding; but to repeat the Sermons that you have preached, & to call upon God, and sing his Praise.
2. Let not the main exercises of the meeting be such as tend to contention, or to private mens proud ostentation of their parts, but such as tend to the edification of the people: Not for private men to preach or expound Scripture, nor (as some do) to let every one of them speak to questions of their own propounding; but to repeat the Sermons that you have preacht, & to call upon God, and sing his Praise.