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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...

where the public good requireth it: so is it betwixt a pastor and his special flock. When we are ordained ministers without a special charge, we are licensed and commanded to do our best for all, as we shall have a call for the particular exercise: but when we have undertaken a particular charge, we have restrained the exercise of our gifts and guidance so especially to that, that we may allow others no more than they can spare, of our time and help, except where the public good requireth it, which
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