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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...

The work itself, or the actions which we must perform.—(4.) The end which we must intend. I shall begin with the last, as being first in our intention, though last attained. I. The ultimate end of our pastoral oversight, is that which is the ultimate end of our whole lives; even the pleasing and glorifying of God, to which is connexed the glory of the human nature also of Christ, and the glorification of his church, and of ourselves in particular: and the nearer ends of our office, are the sanctification
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