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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.
13. If you be not well able to deal with them, do as I before advised: Give them the best book on that subject to peruse.
14. If all this will not do, get the fittest neighbour Minister that you know to come over and help you: Not in Public, nor as a set Disputation, (without necessity;) but let him come as occasionally, and ex improviso, come upon them in one of their private meetings, as desirous to see and hear them, and so take the opportunity to deal with them. And if after that there be any Disputations appointed, be sure to observe the old rule, fight with them on their own ground, and keep up the war in their quarters, and let it come as little as you can into your own: and therefore go to their Assemblies, but let them not come into yours. For with them, you can lose little, and may gain much: but at home, you can gain little, but its two to one, will lose some, let the error be never so gross. The Sectaries commonly observe this course themselves, and therefore you will have much ado to get their consent to bring your disputations into their own Assemblies.
14. If all this will not do, get the fittest neighbour Minister that you know to come over and help you: Not in Publike, nor as a set Disputation, (without necessity;) but let him come as occasionally, and ex improviso, come upon them in one of their private meetings, as desirous to see and hear them, and so take the opportunity to deal with them. And if after that there be any Disputations appointed, be sure to observe the old rule, fight with them on their own ground, and keep up the war in their quarters, and let it come as little as you can into your own: and therefore go to their Assemblies, but let them not come into yours. For with them, you can lose little, and may gain much: but at home, you can gain little, but its two to one, will lose some, let the error be never so gross. The Sectaries commonly observe this course themselves, and therefore you will have much ado to get their consent to bring your disputations into their own Assemblies.