Gildas Salvianus : the reformed pastor ; Shewing the nature of the pastoral work, especially in private instruction and catechizingWith an open confession of our too open sinsPrepared for a day of humiliation kept at Worcester, Decemb4 1655by the ministers of that county ... . ears of the people, but we ftiouldhave been honoured before them ? Certainly finsX 3 openly %6fi Gildas Salvianus h openly committed are more difhonourable to uswhen we hide them,then when we confefs them. Itis the fin and not the Confeflion that is our diflio-nour: And we have committed thejn before theSun, fo that they
Gildas Salvianus : the reformed pastor ; Shewing the nature of the pastoral work, especially in private instruction and catechizingWith an open confession of our too open sinsPrepared for a day of humiliation kept at Worcester, Decemb4 1655by the ministers of that county ... . ears of the people, but we ftiouldhave been honoured before them ? Certainly finsX 3 openly %6fi Gildas Salvianus h openly committed are more difhonourable to uswhen we hide them,then when we confefs them. Itis the fin and not the Confeflion that is our diflio-nour: And we have committed thejn before theSun, fo that they cannot be hid. Attempts to increafe the guilt and fhame : There is noway to repair the breaches in our honour, which ourfin hath made, but by free Confeflion and Humilia-tion. I durft not but make Confeflion of my own ;and if any be offended that I have confeffed theirs ,let them know, that I do but what I have done bymy felf. And if they dare difown the confeflion oftheir fin, let them do it at their peril. But as for allthe truly humble Miniftersof the Gofpel, I doubtnot but they will rather be provoked more folemnlyin the face of their feveral Congregations, to lamenttheir fins, and promife Reformation. CHAP. The Reformed Taftor. 247 CHAP. V. SBCT. Tfo Vfe of Exhortation. fAvingdifclofed and lamented our mif-carriages and neglefts,our duty for thefuture lies plain before us. God for-bid that we fhould now go on in the finthat we have confeffed, ascarelefly aswe did before. Then would that exclamation ofSalvian fall upon us, de Gubern. L 3. p. 8 /. Novumfiquidem monftrigenm eft ^ eadem pens omnes jugiterfactum y cjh£ fecijfeplangunt\Et qui intrant Ecclefia-Jiicam domum^ ut maU antiqaa defleant^ exeunt ^ &quid dico exeunt ? in ipjis pene hoc orationibm fuis acfufplicationibm molinntur -5 Aliud quippe or a homi-num>aliud cor da agunt: Et dum verbis prater it a mttUplangunt Jenfufutura meditdntur*; ac ft oratioeorumrixa eft magis criminum quam cxoratrix\ nt
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