The Reformed Pastor
Details
- Book
- The Reformed Pastor – Puritan Paperbacks series
- Written by
- Richard Baxter
- Originally Published
- 1656
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Banner of Truth
- ISBN
- 9781848712119
- Format
- Paperback
- Release Date
- Pages
- 312
- List Price
- $10.00
Availability
- Electronic Version
- Chapter I: The Oversight of Ourselves
- Chapter II: The Oversight of the Flock
- Chapter III: Application
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Richard Baxter was vicar of Kidderminster from 1647 to 1661. In an introduction to this reprint, Dr. J.I. Packer describes him as ‘the most outstanding pastor, evangelist and writer on practical and devotional themes that Puritanism produced’. His ministry transformed the people of Kidderminster from ‘an ignorant, rude and revelling people’ to a godly, worshipping community. These pages, first prepared for a Worcestershire association of ministers in 1656, deal with the means by which such changes are ever to be accomplished. In his fervent plea for the discharge of the spiritual obligations of the ministry, Baxter, in the words of his contemporary, Thomas Manton, ‘came nearer the apostolic writings than any man in the age’. A century later Philip Doddridge wrote, ‘The Reformed Pastor is a most extraordinary book…many good men are but shadows of what (by the blessing of God) they might be, if the maxims and measures laid down in that incomparable Treatise were strenuously pursued’.
Today, Baxter’s principles, drawn from Scripture, and reapplied in terms of modern circumstances, will provide both ministers and other Christians with challenge, direction and help.
Table of Contents:
Introduction – J.I. Packer
Preface: William Brown
Section 1: The Nature of This Oversight
Section 2: The Motives to this Oversight
Section 1: The Nature of This Oversight
Section 2: The Manner of This Oversight
Section 3: The Motives to This Oversight
Section 1: The use of Humiliation
Section 2: The Duty of Personal Catechizing and Instructing the Flock Particularly Recommended
Part 1: Motives to This Duty
Article 1: Motives from the Benefits of the Work
Article 2: Motives from the Difficulties of the Work
Article 3: Motives from the Necessity of the Work
Article 4: Application of these Motives
Part 2: Objections to This Duty
Part 3: Direction for This Duty
Article 1: Direction for bringing our People to Submit to the Exercise
Article 2: Directions for Prosecuting the Exercise with Success
Author
Richard Baxter (1615–1691) was one of the preeminent Puritan leaders of his day, the most successful Puritan pastor, and the most productive Puritan writer. Ordained at 23, he spent 17 fruitful years as curate at Kidderminster, England. He was ejected from the Church of England by the Act of Uniformity in 1662 and was imprisoned at least three times for his preaching. The author of more than 150 published treatises.
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