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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26932	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 ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1274; ESTC R209214	317,338	576

expressions no nor cannot learn when expressions are put into their mouths Some of the most pious experienced approved Christians that I know aged people complain exceedingly to me with tears that they cannot learn the words of the Catechism and when I consider their advantages that they have lived under the most excellent helps in constant duty and in the best company for fourty or fifty or sixty years together it teacheth me what to expect from poor ignorant people that never had such company and converse for one year or week and not to reject them so hastily as some hot and too high professors would have us do But this is on the by 5. This also must be observed that if you find them at a loss and unable to answer your questions drive them not on too hard or too long with question after question lest they conceive you intend but to puzzle them and disgrace them but presently when you perceive them troubled that they cannot answer then step in your self and take the burden off them make answer to the question your selves and then do it throughly and plainly and make a full explication of the whole business to them that by your Teaching they may be brought to understand it before you leave them And herein it is comonly necessary that you fetch up the matter ab origine take it on in order till you come to the point in question 6. And usually with the grosly ignorant it is flatly necessary that you do run over all the sum of our Religion to them in the most familiar way that you can possibly devise But this must be the next Direction Direct 5. When you have done what you see Cause in the trial of their knowledge proceed next to instruct them your selves And this must be according to their several Capacities If it be a Professor that understandeth the Fundamentals fall upon somewhat which you perceive that he most needeth either explaining further some of the mysteries of the Gospel or laying the Grounds of some duty which he may doubt of or shewing the necessity of what he neglecteth or meeting with his sins or mistakes as may be most convincing and edifying to him If it be one that is grosly ignorant give him a plain familiar recital of the sum of the Christian Religion in a few words for though it be in the Catechism already yet a more familiar way may better help them to understand it As thus You must know that from Everlasting there was one only God that had no beginning and can have no end who is not a Body as we are but a most pure spiritual Being that knoweth all things and can do all things and hath all Goodness and Blessedness in himself This God is but one but yet three Persons the Father the Son and holy Ghost in an incomprehensible manner above our reach yet we have somewhat in our selves and other creatures that may give us some resemblance of it As in a man his Power and his understanding and will be but One soul and yet they are not one faculty but differ one from another Or as in the Sun the Being or Power and the Heat and the Light are not all one and yet there is but one Sun so in a more incomprehensible manner it is in God And you must know that this One God did make all the world by his word the heavens he made to be the place of his Glory and made a world of holy Angels to serve him in his Glory but some of these did by Pride or other sin fall from God and are become Devils that shall be miserable in torments for ever when he had made the rest of this lower world he made man as his noblest creature here even one man and one woman Adam and Eve and he made them perfect without any sin or fault and put them into the gardan of Eden and forbad them to eat but of one tree in the garden and told them that if they did they should dye But the Devil that had first fallen himself did tempt them to sin and they yielded to his temptation and by wilful sinning they fell under the curse of Gods Law and fell short of the Glory of God But God of his infinite Wisdom and Mercy did send his own son Jesus Christ to be their Redeemer who as he was promised in the beginning so in the fulness of time 1655. years ago was made man and was born of a Virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost and lived on earth among the Jews about 33 years and he preached the Gospel himself and wrought many miracles to prove his doctrine and bring men to believe in him healing the lame the blind the sick and raising the dead by the word of his mouth by his Divine power at the end by the malice of the Jews his own Consent he was offered upon the Cross as a sacrifice for our sins to bear that Curse that we should have born and when he was buryed he rose again the third day and lived on earth forty dayes after And before his departure he sent his Apostles and other Ministers to preach the Gospel of salvation to the world and to call home lost sinners by Repentance and to assure them in his Name that if they will but believe in him and take him for their Saviour and unfeignedly lament their former sins and turn from them to God and will take Everlasting Glory for their portion and be content to resign their carnal Interests and desires he will pardon freely all that is past and be merciful to them for the time to come and will lead them up into spiritual Communion with God and bring them to his Glory when this life is Ended but for them that make light of their sins and of his Mercy and will not forsake the pleasures of this world for the hopes of another they shall be condemned to everlasting punishment This Gospel Christ hath appointed his Ministers to preach to all the world and when he had given this in charge to his Apostles he ascended up into heaven before their faces where he is now in Glory with God the Father in our Nature ruling all And at the end of this world he will come again in that nature and will call the dead to life again and set them all before him to be judged and all that truly Repented and believed in him and were renewed by his spirit and renounced this world for the hopes of a better shall be judged to live with God in Glory and shall be like to his Angels and praise him for ever and the rest that repented not and believed not in him but lived to the flesh and the world shall be condemned to everlasting misery So that you may see by this that mans Happiness is not in this world but in the next and that all men have lost their hopes of that Happiness by sin and