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 i…
The Parson's Book Reviews
Reading is part of the work. Here is a slow walk through George Herbert's The Country Parson, with other volumes taken up along the way.
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 p…
Ad lectorem: The Country Parson
George Herbert (1593-1633) 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…