Heeding the Flock: Knowing Every Person
June 15, 2009
“To this end it is necessary, that we should know every person that belongeth to our charge; for how can we take heed them, if we do not know them? We must labor to be acquainted, not only with the persons, but the state of all our people, with their inclinations and conversations; what are the sins of which they are most in danger, and what duties they are most apt to neglect, and what temptations they are most liable to; for if we know not their temperament or disease, we are not likely to prove successful physicians.”
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (Chapter 2)
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