Henry Bulteel
Henry Bulteel (1800-1866) was a High Calvinist preacher. He started his ministerial duties as an Anglican curate in Oxford, nurturing high views of sovereign grace. Upon leaving the established Church, he organized a nonconformist congregation, but fell victim to the false teachings of Edward Irving. He thereafter denounced those teachings, setting up a Strict and Particular Baptist chapel in Oxford.
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A Sermon On 1 Corinthians 2:12
”Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”—1 Corinthians 2:12 In handling the subject before us, I shall speak, I. Of the doctrine contained in the words, freely given to us, and we have received. II. Of the things themselves so given. III. Of the spiritual knowledge we have of these things. And so come to a practical conclusion. May the Lord bless it for Jesus Christ’s sake. For the explication of the matter contained under the first head, let us keep close to the letter of Scripture, and we shall not go very far from the spirit of it; the words…
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The Life And Ministry Of Henry Bulteel
Mr. Bulteel (then curate of St. Ebb's parish in the city of Oxford) had for some years embraced the doctrines of grace, and preached them with much fervour of mind and strength of expression. This was a new sound at the learned university, and a thing almost unheard of, that a Fellow and tutor of one of the Colleges, for such he was when he first began to preach, should embrace so thoroughly, and above all proclaim so boldly, the obnoxious doctrines of the Calvinistic creed. His church was crowded with hearers, and among them were seen many of the university students, and now and then a master of arts, myself being one of them, some of whom became his attached and regular hearers. As…
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Life And Death Of Henry Bulteel
Henry Bellenden Bulteel (1800–1866), theological controversialist, son of Thomas Bulteel of Plymstock, Devonshire, was born at Bellevue, near Plymouth, in 1800, and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 1 April 1818, when in his eighteenth year. He graduated B.A. in 1822, and took his M.A. in 1824, having been elected a fellow of Exeter College on 30 June in the previous year. He vacated his fellowship by marrying, on 6 Oct. 1829, Eleanor, sister of Alderman C. J. Sadler, pastrycook, of the High Street, Oxford. Bulteel became curate of St. Ebbe’s, Oxford, in 1826. The chief event of his life and the cause of a complete change in his ecclesiastical standing was ‘A Sermon on 1 Corinthians ii. 12, preached before the University of Oxford…
