Well, Carl got Aimee wrong. What’s one more?
Some Baxter quotes from The Reformed Pastor:

“It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.”
“You are likely to see no general reformation til you procure family reformation. Some little obscure religion there may be in here & there one; but while it sticks in single persons, & isn't promoted by these societies, it doth not prosper, nor promise much for future increase.”
“The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.”

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