Category: The Parson’s Blog
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Duty and Dignity: The Country Parson
The first chapter of The Country Parson beautifully lays out the dignity and duty of the pastor. Herbert describes the pastor as the deputy of Christ on earth. The pastor serves the Lord’s purpose in sanctifying the people of God. Man fell from the state in which he was originally made via disobedience. The Lord…
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Ad lectorem: The Country Parson
I picked up my copy of The Country Parson by George Herbert a few years back from a used bookstore in South Bend, Indiana. It has silently been in my queue waiting to be read. All I knew was that the book cover told me it was part of a book series called The Classics…