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21-8-1909

PREACHER AND PASTOR,

BY

FENELON, HERBERT, BAXTER, CAMPBELL.

EDITED AND ACCOMPANIED WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

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EDWARDS A. PARK,

BARTLET PROFESSOR IN ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

ANDOVER:

PUBLISHED BY ALLEN, MORRILL AND WARDWELL.

NEW YORK: MARK H. NEWMAN.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by ALLEN, MORRILL & WARDWELL,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts

PREFACE.

SOME of the reasons for republishing the following treatises of Fenelon, Herbert, Baxter and Campbell are the following: First, all these treatises have an established character, and no minister's library should be destitute of the standard works in any department of his professional studies. "The Reformed Pastor," says Dr. Doddridge, " is a most extraordinary performance, and should be read by every young minister, before he takes a people under his stated care; and, I think, the practical part of it reviewed every three or four years; for nothing would have a greater tendency to awaken the spirit of a minister to that zeal in his work, for want of which many good men are but shadows of what (by the blessing of God) they might be, if the maxims and measures laid down in that incomparable treatise were strenuously pursued." Dr. Bates characterizes the Reformed Pastor as "an accomplished model of an evangelical minister;" and Baxter himself speaks of it as "one of the greatest and best works that I ever put my hand to in my whole life." Similar testimony has been given by venerated men to what Doddridge calls, "Fenelon's incomparable Dialogues on Eloquence." Dr. Edward Williams says in his Christian Preacher, that they "are deservedly mentioned by many writers of eminence, with a sort of respect bordering on veneration; and no wonder, for such a union of the sublime and simple, of learning and familiarity, of judicious criticism and happy illustration; such unaffected humility and warm benevolence, delicate taste and solid sense; and above all, such reverence for sacred things, blended with a subject so often employed by human vanity and pride, are superior excellences very rarely found." It may also