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The Late James Wells
When Dr. Hamilton handed to the printer in his study the last sheet of his "Life of Ely," he said, "And let me beg of you to be quick about it, sir, for ministers are soon forgotten!" This remark is painfully true in many cases, not only of ministers, but of persons in general. However, the remembrance we have of…
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The Life And Ministry Of George Harris
I was born in the village of Grundisburgh, Suffolk, on the 3rd day of June, 1814—I think, sixteen years after the Particular Baptist Church was formed in that place; and in the providence of God, one of the members of that Church, of the name of Stripling, nursed my mother, who carried me to chapel when I was only a…
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June 12—Morning Devotion
"And confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."—Hebrews 11:13 My soul, hast thou also witnessed this confession before many witnesses? See whether thou hast the same evidences they had. In the first place, they were led to see that here they had no continuing city. Sin, sorrow, sickness, death, inhabited this region. Every thing said to them…
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The Life And Ministry Of Tobias Crisp
Tobias Crisp served the Lord during a time of civil war and ecclesiastical unrest. There were threats of a papal take-over in the Established Church and Amyraldianism, Arminianism, Grotianism and Socinianism were flooding into the country to water down the faith inherited from the Reformers and defended by the Puritans. Crisp found these new religions false as they did not…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Rogers
John Rogers was educated at Cambridge, and was afterward many years chaplain to the merchant adventurers at Antwerp in Brabant. Here he met with the celebrated martyr William Tyndale, and Miles Coverdale, both voluntary exiles from their country for their aversion to popish superstition and idolatry. They were the instruments of his conversion; and he united with them in that…
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The “Morning Star” Of The Reformation
John Wycliff (1320-1384) For a century or more before his birth numerous problems arose in England which were contributing factors to John Wycliffe's ecclesiastical non-conformity. Due to his power-struggle with Pope Innocent IIl. King John I in 1213, yielded feudal sovereignly to the Papacy. That situation proved to be a very great detriment to England. As a result of that…
