This article reflects on the usefulness of Richard Baxter's book The Reformed Pastor to consider the call to the ministry. The article summarizes five admonitions of Baxter into three rules of pastoral practice: active spirituality, pastoral integrity, and pastoral competence.

This article offers an outline of the life of the Puritan Richard Baxter, and then a consideration of his book The Reformed Pastor.

This article is a reflection on Richard Baxter's The Reformed Pastor.  This work discusses the nature of the pastor's task in the congregation.