The Christian Pastor's Manual: A Selection of Tracts on the Duties, Difficulties, and Encouragements of the Christian Ministry

“Hundreds of books offer to show ministers and pastors the high road to success, but few direct them in the hard path of serving the Great Shepherd. In this book, John Brown has gathered choice pastoral wisdom from the evangelical divines of eighteenth-century Brittan on the ‘duties, difficulties, and encouragements of the Christian ministry.’ Writers include Abraham Booth, Philip Doddridge, John Erskine, John Newton, Isaac Watts, and others. John Jennings’s chapters, ‘Preaching Christ’ and ‘Particular and Experimental Preaching,’ are alone worth ten times the price of the book, but the entire book is invaluable. The Christian Pastor’s Manual is the best collection of essays on the ministry that I have ever read. Its chapters are consistently rich; its thoughts are deep, practical, and vigorous. May they be like living seeds planted in the minds of a new generation of ministers and pastors, pressing the roots of truth into their innermost beliefs and affections and producing the fruits of faithfulness in all their lives.”

“The Christian Pastor’s Manual has my decided and high approval. It is my prayer and my hope that this publication may, by the blessing of God, eminently contribute to prepare for the good work those who have in purpose devoted themselves to it, and to stimulate to renewed earnestness of effort, and self-improvement, and supplication, such as are already engaged in its duties.”

“We always think of Brown as a Puritan born out of due time. Everything he has left us is massive gold. He is both rich and clear, profound and perspicuous.”