William Gadsby
William Gadsby (1773-1844) was a Strict and Particular Baptist preacher, writer and philanthropist. For thirty-nine years served as pastor for the church meeting at Black Lane, Manchester.
William Gadsby Sermons (Complete)
William Gadsby Hymns
William Gadsby, Perfect Law Of Liberty (Complete)
William Gadsby's Catechism (Complete)
William Gadsby's Dialogues
William Gadsby's Fragments (Complete)
William Gadsby's Letters (Complete)
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9. On Christian Liberty
“If the Son make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”—John 8:36 A Sermon Preached By William Gadsby, In 1842. Much we talk of freedom in our day; much is our mind perplexed about it; but how little is said, and how little we think of the freedom in the text. Freedom in this life concerning temporal matters will benefit us little compared with the freedom which the Son of God gives to his children. The former endureth only a little while, but the latter endureth for ever. O may this freedom be made manifest unto us, through God's dear Son. We understand, in consideration of this subject, 1. Freedom signifies a prior bondage. 2. What is this freedom? 3. God's Son makes us free.…
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10. The Church Commended to the Word of God’s Grace
“And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.”—Acts 20:32 A Sermon Preached By William Gadsby On Tuesday Evening, May 31st, 1842, in Gower Street Chapel, London, on taking leave at the Close of his Annual Visit. The characters here addressed, are the brotherhood; and the apostle “commends them to God”—commits them to the care and safe keeping of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. The Lord has brought me to this point a great number of years ago, that if you take away the Trinity, or one Person in his Personal Godhead out of…
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11. The Love Of God
“Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”—Romans 5:5 A Sermon Preached By William Gadsby, July 3rd, 1836. The love of God! Whenever we venture on a subject of such importance, we venture on a profound deep. There is a love which God, as the God of nature, bears to creation as the work of his own hands; for he saw that it was very good. But the love of God, as shed abroad in the heart of a believer, as far exceeds it as heaven exceeds earth. God's love, as a covenant God, the love of each glorious Person in the Trinity, was fixed on his people, without any reason assigned for…
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12. The Soul’s Death Unto Sin
Preached on Tuesday Evening, May 25th, 1841, in Gower Street Chapel, London. “For he that is dead is freed from sin.”—Romans 6:7 In the chapter preceding this, the apostle has been led by the Divine Author of the Word to take a view of the two Adams and their two seeds; that Adam the first, by his awful sin and apostasy, brought death and condemnation upon all his offspring, so that in him, in his very first act of transgression, they “all sinned and came short of the glory of God,” and thus, “by one man's offence death reigned by one;” but that Adam the Second, “the Lord from Heaven,'' represented an elect seed, and had them all in his loins, chosen by the Father…
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13. Sanctification In Christ
“Sanctified in Christ Jesus.”—1 Corinthians 1:2 A Sermon Preached By William Gadsby In Gower Street Chapel, London, On Lord's Day Morning, May 9th, 1841. I have no doubt that in this assembly, in some corner or other, there are some poor, hobbling souls who are terrified almost to death about the doctrine of sanctification. They read, in the book of God's Word, of the Spirit as a Sanctifier; but they are necessarily obliged to exclaim, “Lord, I am vile!” Sometimes we say respecting people's credit, “Why, it is wrought quite threadbare.” Bless you, in some poor souls there is not a thread left to be made bare. If God the Spirit has brought you there, you will have indeed to exclaim, “Lord, I am vile!”…
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14. The Lord’s Supper
John Gadsby—The following meager scraps are all I have been able to meet with as to my father's observance of the Lord's Supper. If there were any one part of the services of God's house in which he was more solemn and impressive than another, it was at this ordinance, and every time, month after month and year after year, he was always favoured with something new to lay before the people. On leaving the vestry and reaching the table, he first gave out a suitable hymn, which was sung. He then, if any persons were to be received into the church, they having previously taken their seats in the tablepew, he requested them to stand up; and he then frequently addressed them collectively after…
