Although Richard Greenham of Dry Drayton, whom we met last month, was well known and appreciated as a gospel preacher, it was as a pastoral counsellor that Greenham excelled.
His 20th-century biographer John Primus has argued persuasively that in this area Greenham was ‘an ecclesiastical titan who used his extraordinary gifts to make enormous contributions to God’s church and kingdom’.
For Greenham to fulfill his ministry as a preacher meant pastoral visitation.
350 years on: the life and lyrics of Isaac Watts
‘Religion never was designed to make our pleasures less’I almost missed this anniversary and hadn’t realised that Isaac Watts …