John C. Ryland
John Collett Ryland (1723-1792) was a Particular Baptist preacher. In 1741, he was baptized by Benjamin Beddome. In 1750, he became pastor of the Baptist church meeting at Warwick. In 1759, he became pastor of a Baptist church meeting at Northampton. Although he subscribed to high views of sovereign grace, his son (John Ryland Jr.), who succeeded him as pastor of the church in Northampton, imbibed the false teachings of Andrew Fuller.
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The Life And Ministry Of John Collett Ryland
John Collett Ryland (1723-1792), divine, son of Joseph Ryland, a farmer and grazier of Lower Ditchford, Gloucestershire, and grandson of John Ryland, yeoman, of Hinton-on-the-Green, Gloucesterhisre, was born at Bourton-on-the-Water in the same county on 12 Oct. 1723. His mother, Free-love Collett, of Slaughter, was a collateral descendant of John Colet, dean of St. Paul’s. Ryland was baptized in 1741 by Benjamin Beddome, who, perceiving him to be a lad of promise, sent him about 1744 to Bernard Foskett’s academy at Bristol to prepare for the ministry. After undergoing much spiritual conflict he left Bristol in 1750 to be pastor of the Baptist church at Warwick, where he had already preached for four or five years. Here he kept school in St. Mary’s parsonage-house, rented…
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Sovereign Ruler Of The Skies
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Sovereign Ruler Of The Skies
Psalm 31:14,15: "But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me." Ecclesiastes 3:1-15: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to…
