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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is showed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, 1650
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART. III. › Chapter 11 › Section 18
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.
Ans. 1. This is not taking a Pastoral charge of souls, nor making an office or calling of it, as Preachers do.
2. And in the way of our callings, every good Christian is a Teacher, and hath a charge of his neighbours soul. Let it be only the voice of a Cain to say, Am I my brothers keeper? I would have one of these men, that are so loath that private men should teach them, to tell me, What if a man fall down in a swoon in the streets, though it be your father or superior; would you not take him up presently, and use all means you could to recover him? Or would you let him lye and dye, and say, It is the work of the Physician, and not mine: I will not invade the Physicians calling? In two cases every man is a Physician. First, In case of necessity▪ and when a Physician cannot be had: and secondly, in case the hurt be so small, that every man can do it as well as the Physician. And in the same two cases every man must be a Teacher.
2. And in the way of our callings, every good Christian is a Teacher, and hath a charge of his neighbors soul. Let it be only the voice of a Cain to say, Am I my brothers keeper? I would have one of these men, that are so loath that private men should teach them, to tell me, What if a man fall down in a swoon in the streets, though it be your father or superior; would you not take him up presently, and use all means you could to recover him? Or would you let him lye and dye, and say, It is the work of the Physitian, and not mine: I will not invade the Physitians calling? In two cases every man is a Physitian. First, In case of necessity▪ and when a Physitian cannot be had: and secondly, in case the hurt be so small, that every man can do it as well as the Physitian. And in the same two cases every man must be a Teacher.