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Pastoral Theology: A Treatise on the Office and Duties of the Christian Pastor is unavailable, but you can change that!

Published shortly after his death, Pastoral Theology is a companion work to Fairbairn’s earlier Pastoral Epistles, and expounds upon practical themes such as the pastoral duties and social life of the pastor, the pastoral calling, different kinds of discourses, dealings with special cases, the administration of discipline, and much more. This volume also includes a biographical sketch of the late...

can say, “Lord, Thou hast sent me,” may boldly add, “Lord, go with me, and bless me.” It is good when a man is serious in this inquiry.… These things may satisfy a minister’s conscience that Jesus Christ hath sent him.’ ‘(1.) If the heart be filled with a single desire to the great end of the ministry—the glory of God in the salvation of men. Every work that God calls a man to, He makes the end of it amiable to him. This desire sometimes attends men’s first conversion. Paul was called to be a saint
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