The Importance of the Pastoral Ministry

Thursday, July 7, 2005
In the words of puritan Samuel Hieron, in the care of a bad
Miller we loose but our meale, of the Farrier but our horse, of the Taylour but our garment, of the Lawyer but our money, of the Physitian but our bodyes: but in the hands of an vnfaithfull minister a man looseth his soule and his everlasting portion in heaven.

--Samuel Hieron, Aarons Bells A-sounding (1623), quoted in J. William Black, Reformation Pastors: Richard Baxter and the Ideal of the Reformed Pastor (Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster Press, 2004), 35.
This entry was posted by Jordan J. Ballor on Thursday, July 7, 2005 at 06:23. and is filed under Bible and Theology. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog. All new comments are subject to moderation before being displayed.
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