• David Bartley

    The Life And Testimony Of David Bartley

    The gentle reader may want to know the motive and aim of the author in offering this humble tribute to the brotherhood; therefore I may briefly say, the motive is neither ambitious nor selfish, but to glorify God; and the aim is, to both admonish and encourage His dear and loving children, especially the young soldiers of the Cross. I…

  • David Bartley,  Jared Smith On Various Issues

    The Origin And Teachings Of Conditional Primitive Baptists

    The origin of the English Particular Baptists and the American Particular Baptists may be traced to the first half of the seventeenth century. Generally speaking, both groups came to embrace eighteenth century Hyper-Calvinism, but by the turn of the nineteenth century, were thrown into conflict by the newfangled teachings of Andrew Fuller. The English Particular Baptists separated into the Gillite…

  • John Underhill

    The Life And Ministry Of John Underhill

    He was born at Gornal, near Dudley, in Staffordshire, was sent apprentice to Birmingham, where he sat under the ministry of Mr. John Ryland, and became exceedingly anxious to obtain a knowledge of the Scriptures. Here it pleased God to lay his afflicting hand on him by fever. On a particular occasion he heard Mr. Ryland address a congregation of…

  • John MacGowan

    The Life And Death Of John MacGowan

    John MacGowan was born in Edinburgh about the year 1726. But little information can be obtained respecting his early life. After receiving a common school education, he was placed out to the trade of a weaver. In early life he connected himself with the Wesleyan Methodists, and became a preacher among them. Embracing the Calvinistic system, he joined the Independents,…