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The Life And Ministry Of Samuel Turner
Mr. Turner was born in London, and was called to a knowledge of himself as a sinner and the Lord Jesus Christ as a Saviour, under that unequalled minister of Christ in modern times, the late William Huntington, whom he dearly loved. It appears from Mr. T.'s statements to many of his friends, that he was brought to know the Lord in his youth, and by the Holy Spirit was separated to the work of the ministry about 50 years ago. He was made instrumental to the deliverance of many poor sin-burdened, law-condemned souls, and as an experimental minister in the sweetness of the love of Christ, the condemnation of the law, the temptations of Satan, the deceitfulness of the heart, and the quickening, convincing,…
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Arminianism In The Oven
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The Life And Death Of Thomas Small
Death. On June 16th, 1868, in the 77th year of his age, Mr. Thomas Small, for many years minister of the gospel at Sherborne, Dorsetshire. His end was peace. He kept his bed only for a fortnight, although he had been decaying very much for the last twelve months. The last two or three months of his life he suffered greatly in body from a cancer, which, together with debility and a broken constitution, was the second cause of his death. After leaving Sherborne, he met a few friends who valued his ministry at his own house at Longburton, and spoke once a day on the Sabbath until the last fortnight of his life. When friends visited him in his bedroom, he could not say…
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John Bale: A Rough And Ready Reformer Against Polished Papacy
We expect great things of those born with silver spoons in their mouths and encouraged from infancy to climb every social, political and cultural ladder. Those born in great poverty and brought up by public institutions rather than in a cosy family background often give cause for concern regarding their future. Yet, in the year 1495, one of the greatest Reformers ever was born into a very large family of poverty-stricken parents and ragged children in the tiny village of Cove in Suffolk. Indeed, John Bale’s parents, Henry and Margaret could not afford any kind of education for their son and he spent his childhood as a farmhand until his parents, despairing of giving John a livelihood, took him to the Carmelite convent at Norwich…
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The Life And Ministry Of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
One often reads in popular works and even in doctoral theses that Englishman William Carey founded the first Protestant Mission in the non-English speaking world on behalf of the Particular Baptist Missionary Society. Actually, the Baptists were rather late in discovering the world-wide mission field as Lutherans, Church of England and Independent missionary enterprises beat the Baptists by over a century. Great as Carey’s work was, it was built on the pioneering work of Christians of other denominations, in particular that of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg who was called to India almost a century before Carey. The missionary work Carey undertook in Danish held territory reflected and built on Ziegenbalg’s endeavours and successes which were carried on by Ziegenbalg’s son in Serampore long after Ziegenbalg’s death. Indeed,…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Scandrett
We are favored with a copy of a neat pamphlet just written by our Christian and ministerial brother, Thomas Jones, of Dacre Park, Blackheath, entitled—“Jubilee Jottings. A Retrospect of the Past. An Ebenezer of Praise. Passages in the History of the Baptist Church at Sible Hedingham, Essex.” The profits of this little fourpenny book (if there be any) are to be given to the Sunday-school connected with the chapel; and as it is a most pleasing and instructive narrative, we expect it will circulate far and near. The author has given us full permission to use as much of it as we can; we therefore connect with our report of the jubilee services a few extracts from the church’s history. The following paragraphs carry us…
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The Answered Prayers Of A Loving Father
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The Life And Ministry Of Cornelius Cowley
He grew up strong in mind and body, until about ten years of age, when he had a very severe attack of rheumatic gout in his feet, which very much reduced him, and from which he suffered more or less throughout his life. After this, he had a very narrow escape from the bursting of a gun, which he let off loaded with gravel stones, when sent by a farmer to drive the birds from a field newly-sown with corn. When between the age of thirteen and fourteen he was apprenticed to the boot and shoe business for seven years. He was very quick in learning his trade; but at the age of seventeen, feeling himself grown up quite a man, he did not like…
