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Thus Dr. Doddridge remarked—‘My heart does not upbraid me with having kept back anything that may be profitable to my people. But I fear I have not followed them sufficiently with domestic and personal exhortations.’ Orton’s Life, ch. ii. Bishop Wilson recommended his Clergy to ‘visit every” family and soul in his parish at least once a year, that we may all of us’ (he said, alluding probably to Heb. 13.17.) ‘be able to give a comfortable account of our labour to our great Master.’ Stowell’s Life, p. 114. Baxter’s Reformed Pastor may be referred to, as placing this Ministry on its high ground of obligation, urging the strongest motives, answering the chief objections, and suggesting most admirable directions for the work.