The Reformed Pastor: A Pattern for Personal Growth and Ministry (Classics of Faith & Devotion)

by Richard Baxter

Publisher:

Regent College Publishing

, 1985

Overview

Richard Baxter lived in an age when many of his fellow pastors had grown too comfortable with performing their religious duties by rote and spending much of their time in gluttony and drunkenness. It was under these conditions that Baxter wrote The Reformed Pastor—a reprimand to indolent clergy and an appeal to ministers of the gospel to take heed of their own spiritual condition before attempting to shepherd others. This paraphrased edition of The Reformed Pastor makes Baxter’s time-tested wisdom accessible ad relevant to any who desire to be ministers of Christ today.

Product Details

• Title: The Reformed Pastor: A Pattern for Personal Growth and Ministry
• Author: Richard Baxter
• Publisher: Regent College Publishing
• Print Publication Date: 1985
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 160
• Era: era:reformation
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Clergy › Office--Early works to 1800; Pastoral theology › Early works to 1800
• ISBNs: 1553610059, 1573832014, 9781553610052, 9781573832014
• Resource ID: LLS:RFRMDPSTRMNSTRY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-31T16:36:32Z

About Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter (1615–1691), one of the great English pastors and theologians. Though without a university education, and always sickly, he acquired great learning. In 1633 he had a brief experience of court life at Whitehall (London), but turned from the court in disgust and studied theology. In 1638 he was ordained by the bishop of Worcester and preached in various places till 1641, when he began his ministry at Kidderminster (18 m. s.w. of Birmingham), as “teacher.” There he labored with wonderful success so that the place was utterly transformed. When the Civil War broke out (1642) he retired temporarily to Gloucester and then to Coventry because he sided with the parliament, while all in and about Kidderminster sided with the king. He was, however, no blind partizan and boldly spoke out for moderation and fairness. After acting as an army chaplain he separated from the army, partly on account of illness, and returned to Kidderminster.