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The Life And Ministry Of William Kiffin
William Kiffin, Baptist. William Kiffin, the elder, of London, merchant, died December 29th, 1701, in the 86th year of his age. The above was inscribed on his tombstone, as preserved by Mr. Strype, in Stowe’s Survey of London; but the intersection of his grave is not now known. William Kiffin was so celebrated a person, and made such a distinguished…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Kiffin
I have said that this church, though avowedly Baptist, admitted other than baptized believers to fellowship; but when they went still further, and invited unbaptized preachers to occupy their pulpit, William Kiffen objected, withdrew, and, in the year 1638, founded the FIRST STRICT BAPTIST CHURCH IN LONDON!! That is to say, the first Baptist church holding and teaching Particular Redemption,…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Spilsbury
In 1616 (in the reign of James I.) there was a mixed Protestant Dissenting church gathered in Broad Street, Wapping. Some of these good people were Baptists. The first pastor chosen by the mixed congregation was one Henry Jacob, an Independent—though even he eventually became a Baptist. Years passed (as they have a habit of doing), and Mr. John Lathrop…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Skepp
John Skepp was born about the year 1675. He was originally a member of the Independent Church, at Cambridge, under the care of the famous Joseph Hussey; at what time he became a Baptist is not known. Prior to 1715, he was chosen Pastor of the Baptist Church, at Curriers’ Hall, Cripplegate; that Church of which Mr. Skepp himself says,…
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God’s Care Of His People
Dear Children,—I have thought that it might not be altogether unprofitable to devote a little time to the very remarkable subject of the passage of the children of Israel through the Red Sea. It is a circumstance that manifests God's great and glorious power in the deliverance of his own people Israel; but awful vengeance indeed in the destruction of…
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Precious Faith
This we have not by nature. So far are we from being capable of faith in Christ, in a state of unregeneracy, that it is altogether contrary to our nature. God created Adam holy, and placed him in the garden of Eden in a state of sinless perfection; but he by disobedience merited the displeasure of Heaven, and being the…
