THE

PRACTICAL WORKS

OF THE

REV. RICHARD BAXTER.

VOLUME XIV.

CONTAINING

GILDAS SALVIANUS: THE REFORMED PASTOR; CONFIRMATION AND RESTAURATION, THE NECESSARY MEANS OF REFORMATION AND RECONCILIATION.

VOL. XIV.

R. EDWARDS, CRANE COURT, FLEET STREET, LONDON.

BRIEF explication of the Text

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What sort of Elders they were that Paul spoke to

II. Wherein we must take heed to ourselves

III. The moving reasons to take heed to ourselves

CHAPTER II.

IV. What is it to take heed to all the flock? It is implied

that every flock have their own pastor; and that regularly

the flock be no greater than the pastors may oversee,

ing heed to all

I. The ends of this oversight

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2. The converted....

(1.) The young and weaker.....

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(2.) Those that labour under special distempers..

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(3.) Decliners...

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(4.) That are fallen under some great temptation

(8.) Comforting

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ibid.

(9.) Private admonishing offenders

(10.) More public discipline

Public admonition, 105.-Public exhortation to

open discovery of repentance, 108.-Public

praying for the offender, ibid.-To assist the

penitent, confirming, absolving, &c. 113.-

Rejecting the obstinately impenitent from our

communion, ibid.-Reception of the penitent..

The manner and necessity of these acts

Making laws for the church is not our work

CHAPTER III.

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 and 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 ...

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12. Patiently. And we must be studious of union and

communion among ourselves, and of the unity and

peace of the church . .

ibid.

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7. In humility and condescension.

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