Seminary Reading

If I had (which I don't) only 300 pages (which I wouldn't) to assign for a seminarian to read before beginning a pastorate, I think I would assign:

• Lectures to My Students, C. H. Spurgeon (excerpts)
• The Life of God in the Soul of Man, Henry Scougal (letter to friend)
• Words to Winners of Souls, Horatius Bonar
• The Mortification of Sin, John Owen
• "The Christian Pilgrim", Jonathan Edwards (sermon)
• A Treatise on Grace, Jonathan Edwards
• No Place for Truth, David Wells (excerpts)