 If God would but reform the ministry, and set them on their duties zealously and faithfully, the people would certainly be reformed : all churches either rise or fall, as the ministry doth rise or fall ; not in riches and worldly grandeur, but in knowledge,...  The Anxious Bench - Page 149by John Williamson Nevin - 1844 - 149 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1830 - 942 pages
...it was their duty. If God would but reform the ministry, and set them cm i Works, vol. xiv. p. 354. their duties zealously and faithfully, the people...but in knowledge, zeal, and ability for the work. But since bishops were restored, this book is useless, and that work not meddled with."* I shall conclude... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 850 pages
...on i Works, vol. xiv. p. 354. their duties zealously and faithfully, the people would certainly he reformed : all churches either rise or fall, as the...but in knowledge, zeal, and ability for the work. But since bishops were restored, this book is useless, and that work not meddled with."™ I shall... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 868 pages
...it was their duty. If God would but reform the ministry, and set them on 1 Works, vol. xiv. p. 354. their duties zealously and faithfully, the people...ministry doth rise or fall ; not in riches and worldly grandenr, but in knowledge, zeal, and ability for the work. But since bishops were restored, this book... | |
 | William Orme - Clergy - 1831 - 378 pages
...how they might bring on that work according as that book had convinced them that it was their duty. If God would but reform the ministry, and set them...but in knowledge, zeal, and ability for the work. But since bishops were restored, this book is useless, and that work not meddled with." m I shall conclude... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1831 - 638 pages
...how they might bring on that work according as that book had convinced them that it was their duty. If God would but reform the ministry, and set them on their duty zealously and faithfully, the people would certainly be reformed : all churches either rise or... | |
 | Richard Baxter, Leonard Bacon - Dissenters, Religious - 1844 - 628 pages
...them that * Banter's Practical Works ; London, 1830 Vol. «. pp. 22, 23. VOL. i. 17 it was their duty. If God would but reform the ministry, and set them on their duty zealously and faithfully, the people would certainly be reformed : all churches either rise or... | |
 | Theology - 1880 - 818 pages
...ministerial fidelity and efficiency the author's mind was bent most ardently. " All Churches," he said, " rise or fall as the ministry doth rise or fall, not...grandeur, but in knowledge, zeal, and ability for their work. But since Bishops were restored this book is useless, and that work not meddled with."... | |
 | Albert Henry Currier - Christian biography - 1912 - 448 pages
...Souls." "It prevailed with many ministers," he says, "to set upon that work which I there exhort them to. Churches either rise or fall as the ministry doth rise or fall." This book, by reason of its "thoughts that breathe and words that burn," and its great influence upon... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1925 - 380 pages
...and Salvianus in my liberty of speech to the pastors of the churches), or The Reformed Pastor. . . If God would but reform the ministry, and set them on their duties zealously and faithI either rise or fall as the ministry doth rise or fall (not in! j riches and worldly grandeur),... | |
 | Religion - 1991 - 164 pages
..."called to faithful service" (Baxter, 10). His claim, then, is one upon which we still place some hope: "If God would but reform the ministry, and set them...faithfully, the People would certainly be reformed" (Baxter, 10). Baxter's book consists mainly of helpful, practical advice to those who would be such... | |
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