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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.
CHAP. III. OF the manner and concomitants of our work. It must be done. 1. Purely for God, and not for self. 2. Laboriously and diligently. 3. Prudently & orderly. 4. Insisting most on the Greatest and most Necessary things. 5. With Plainness and Evidence. 6. In a sense of our insufficiency and dependence on Christ. 7. In Humility and Condescension. 8. A mixture of severity and mildness. 9. With Affectionate seriousness. 10. Reverently and spiritually. 11. In tender love to our people. 12. Patiently. And we must be studious of Union and Communion among our selves, and of the Unity and peace of the Church.
CHAP. III. OF the manner and concomitants of our work. It must be done. 1. Purely for God, and not for self. 2. Laboriously and diligently. 3. Prudently & orderly. 4. Insisting most on the Greatest and most Necessary things. 5. With Plainness and Evidence. 6. In a sense of our insufficiency and dependance on Christ. 7. In Humility and Condescention. 8. A mixture of severity and mildness. 9. With Affectionate seriousness. 10. Reverently and spiritually. 11. In tender love to our people. 12. Patiently. And we must be studious of Union and Communion among our selves, and of the Unity and peace of the Church.
CHAP. IV. Sect. 1. THE first Use for our humiliation: Confessing the sins of the Ministry; especially of this Nation; heretofore. Sect. 2. A confession of our present sins. Specially; 1. Pride. Sect. 3. 2. An undervaluing the Unity and Peace of the Catholic Church. ⟨image 39⟩Sect. 4. 3. Want of serious, industrious, unreserved laying out our selves in the work of God. Discovered 1. By negligent studies. Sect. 5. 2. By dull drowsy preaching. Sect. 6. 3. By not helping them that want abroad. Sect. 7. 4. By neglect of acknowledged Duties. E. G. Church Discipline. The pretences confuted, that would justify it. Sect. 8. 5. By the Power of worldly carnal interests. Manifested, 1. By temporizing. 2. Worldly business. 3. Barrenness in works of Charity. Sect. 9. Applied for Humiliation.
CHAP. IV. Sect. 1. THE first Use for our humiliation: Confessing the sins of the Ministry; especially of this Nation; heretofore. Sect. 2. A confession of our present sins. Specially; 1. Pride. Sect. 3. 2. An undervaluing the Unity and Peace of the Catholike Church.