Isaac Beeman

Isaac Beeman (1765-1838) was a High-Calvinist Independent preacher. He served as pastor for the church meeting at Providence Chapel, Cranbrook, Kent, a place of worship that had been opened with the help of William Huntington. The chapel remained an Independent (Huntingtonian) work until it became Strict Baptist in 1909.

  • Isaac Beeman

    The Life And Testimony Of Isaac Beeman

    I was born in 1764, at Seberton Green, Boughton Malherbe, near Ashford, in Kent. My father was bailiff to Dr. Briton, rector of ———, in that vicinity. About 1778 I was apprenticed to Mr. Clifford, draper and general shopkeeper, at Cranbrook, in the same county, and attended with my master's family at a Particular Baptist chapel; but, like other youths, I walked after the vanity of my own mind. When I was about 16 or 17 years of age, as I was going down to my master's stable, this scripture very powerfully seized my heart: "Now, consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver." The sins of my past life were set before my eyes,…