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The Life And Ministry Of Hanserd Knollys
Hanserd Knollys, Baptist. The precise spot of ground where rest the remains of this eminent man of God, cannot now be pointed out. He died Sept. 19th, 1691, in the 93rd year of his age. Hanserd Knollys was born about the year 1598, at Chalkwell, in Lincolnshire. He had the advantage of descending from religious parents, who took great care of his education, and had him instructed in the principles of religion and sound literature. For this purpose they maintained a tutor in their house till he was fit for the University, when they sent him to Cambridge. Though he had long been noticed for his pious dispositions, yet he attributed his effectual conversion to God, to some sermons he heard at Cambridge, preached by…
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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 certain champions of truth whose souls have long been with God abides in freshness to-day. “All pensive memories as we journey on, Longings for vanished smiles, and voices gone." Foremost in the galaxy of good and great men whose names we cherish, is the late Mr. James Wells, Pastor of the Surrey Tabernacle. Decision Of Character Marked The Life Of James Wells James Wells was…
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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 week old. At that place of worship, in childhood, I was brought up to attend the ministry of Mr. John Thompson, whose labours were abundantly blessed for 28 years. Under his preaching I had very deep convictions of sin—so deep that I envied the cattle around me, and at night in my bed I often wept, fearing I should wake up in hell. But, though…
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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 exalt Christ. Entering the ministry as an unconverted man This ‘holy and judicious’ person, as Augustus Toplady describes Crisp, was born into a family of London sheriffs and aldermen and was educated at Eton, Cambridge and Oxford, finishing his studies by gaining a D.D.. He married Mary Wilson, an Alderman’s daughter, and the couple were blessed with thirteen children. He was ordained Rector of Brinkworth…
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The Life And Testimony Of Tobias Crisp
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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 translation of the Bible into English, entitled “The Translation of Thomas Matthew.” From the Scriptures he knew that unlawful vows may be lawfully broken; hence he married, and removed to Wittenberg in Saxony, for the improvement of learning; and he there learned the Dutch language, and received the charge of a congregation, which he faithfully executed for many years. On King Edward’s accession, he left…
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The Life And Martyrdom Of John Rogers
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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 agreement between king and pope, 12,000 English pounds were annually taken from the English coffers and sent to the Papal See at Rome. Furthermore, large numbers of foreign ecclesiastics were brought into the British Isles. Those alien clerics, who owed greater allegiance to the Papacy or their native lands than they did to England, swarmed all over the nation and even infiltrated into some of…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Wycliffe
