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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...

You much regard the success indeed, that will sell it at so cheap a rate, or will not do so small a matter to attain it! It is a palpable error in those ministers that make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living, that they will study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly: All the week long is little enough to study how to speak two hours; and yet one hour seems too much to study how to live all the week. They are loath to misplace a word in
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