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The Formation Of The Metropolitan Association Of Strict Baptist Churches
The formation of the Metropolitan Association of Strict Baptist Churches is inseparably linked with the church meeting at Silver Street Chapel, Notting Hill Gate, and her pastor, David Crumpton. The Association, church and pastor subscribed to a restricted communion table and the tenets of Hyper-Calvinism. These are the leading features which set apart the Strict Baptist denomination from other churches, unions, societies and associations. On 4 April 1866, a Strict and Particular Baptist Church was organized in Stormont House, Queen’s Road, Bayswater, London. Several of the founding members seceded from the Strict Baptist church, meeting on Johnson Street, Notting Hill Gate. On the day of the new church’s formation, David Crumpton was appointed the pastor. Within two years, the church acquired a building—the Silver Street…
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35 Bible Doctrine – The Significance Of JOHN GILL And His Writings
I would like to welcome you back to another study in Bible Doctrine. In our previous six studies, I have given a historic and theological overview of 17th and 18th century Hyper-Calvinism. I began with a definition—Hyper-Calvinism is any teaching which goes beyond that of Calvin himself. Accordingly, Hyper-Calvinism emerged in two waves. The first began with the publication of Calvin’s Institutes in 1536, culminating in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith. This may be regarded as 17th century Hyper-Calvinism. The second began with the publication of two sermons preached by Benjamin Keach in the year 1692, culminating in John Gill’s Body of Divinity in the year 1770. This may be regarded as 18th century Hyper-Calvinism. Both groups were driven by a covenant…
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1 The Existence Of God
Psalm 14:1.—“The fool hath said in his heart There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” This Psalm is a description of the deplorable corruption by nature of every son of Adam, since the withering of that common root. Some restrain it to the Gentiles, as a wilderness full of briers and thorns, as not concerning the Jews, the garden of God, planted by his grace, and watered by the dew of heaven. But the apostle, the best interpreter, rectifies this in extending it by name to Jews, as well as Gentiles, (Rom. 6:9.) “We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin,” and (ver. 10–12) cites part of this…
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Public Worship
One of the many painful evidences of spiritual declension in numbers of our Churches today is the indifference of not a few professed Christian friends to the public means of grace. A great many persons do not accustom themselves to attend public worship more than once on a Lord's-day, and rarely, if ever, on a week evening; and others still more indifferent enter the courts of the Lord only once or perhaps twice in the course of a month, and mostly not then till after the service has begun. A lover of the house of God who always used to attend public worship with great punctuality, and took care to be in time, was once asked how it was she could always come so early.…
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The Life And Ministry Of 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 John Foreman
His Early Career At Laxfield, Suffolk With the exception of a few recently-built dwelling houses, we presume little change has taken place in the pretty rural village of Laxfield since the youthful days of the late Mr. John Foreman, of blessed memory. Mr. Foreman was evidently, from his own testimony, a bold and intrepid man when in the world, and equally so, in after years, when called by divine grace. His name ranks early on the roll of pastors of the Church at Laxfield, which Church has long been favoured with ministers of truth and of unblemished repute. Mr. Foreman’s Life, As Related By Himself On the occasion of the jubilee of Mr. Foreman's pastoral labours at Mount Zion, Hill-street, Dorset-square, London, October 10, 1865,…
