Category: The Parson’s Book Reviews
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Their Diversities
chapter 2 Their Diversities: Chapter 2 of The Country Parson. Herbert examines a variety of different offices ministers held during the 1700s. Some serving in a perish, a school or in some in particular homes. Regardless of where one serves the “greatest and hardest preparation is within.” This inner, soul sanctifying work is what Robert…
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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 Man fell from the state in which he was originally made via disobedience.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…