Baxter was an establishmentarian. It is good that kings and queens should be nursing fathers and mothers to the Church. He lamented in his Reformed Pastor that magistrates did not make adequate provision of Reformed pastors throughout the England of his day.
Yet, he did not lay the main blame at the feet of civic leaders. [...]
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Baxter, qualifying his establishmentarianism
Posted in Establishments, Richard Baxter, Thomas Chalmers on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Baxter on gathered churches
Posted in Gathered church ecclesiology, Richard Baxter, Thomas Chalmers on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“It is easy to separate from the multitude, and to gather distinct churches, and to let the rest sink or swim; and if they will not be saved by public preaching, to let them be damned: but whether this be the most charitable and Christian course, one would think should be no hard question” (Reformed Pastor, p. [...]
The Man of the Manse
Posted in Cure of Souls, Parish Theory & Practice, Richard Baxter, The Manse on March 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Not long ago, I stumbled across a great treatise in Pastoral Theology from the Puritan era, The Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Holy Life, by George Herbert (better known for his poetry). Herbert, though a conformist to the Church of England, was obviously highly regarded among the non-conformists. Richard Baxter had this to [...]
Baxter’s Bucerian Parish Reform
Posted in Cure of Souls, Parish Theory & Practice, Richard Baxter on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Portrait of Richard Baxter. King’s College London,
Foyle Special Collections Library
J. William Black, “From Martin Bucer to Richard Baxter: ‘Discipline’ and Reformation in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth Century England”
Anyone with a basic familiarity of the history of Protestantism will no doubt be acquainted with its leading personalities. Each of them had particular gifts, standing head [...]
