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The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: Volume XIV is unavailable, but you can change that!

As a lifelong preacher, Baxter wrote extensively on the role of the pastor and on the biblical and historical understanding of the term. Volume Fourteen of The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter contains The Reformed Pastor, one of the most influential writings on the subject in the period following the Reformation. The Reformed Pastor is crafted as a how-to guide for pastoral...

designation of these elders or bishops to their charge; for we must not limit and exclude without necessity. The Holy Ghost did by all these three ways make them overseers of their flocks. (1.) By qualifying them with such gifts as made them fit for it. (2.) By directing the minds of those that ordained them to the ministry. (3.) By disposing both their own minds, and the ordainers, and the people’s for the affixing them to that particular church, rather than another. “Dicit eos constitutos à Spiritu
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