• Robert Hawker's Poor Man's Morning Portions

    June 21—Morning Devotion

    "Men wondered at."—Zechariah 3:8 Men wondered at indeed, and every redeemed soul may truly say, I am a wonder unto many, a wonder to myself. Oh thou whose name is Wonderful! both thou and the children the Lord hath given thee, are for signs and wonders. Behold, my soul, how it was fulfilled in him whose name was Wonderful, and…

  • William Kiffin

    The Life And Ministry Of William Kiffin

    William Kiffin, Baptist. William Kiffin, the elder, of London, merchant, died December 29th, 1701, in the 86th year of his age. The above was inscribed on his tombstone, as preserved by Mr. Strype, in Stowe’s Survey of London; but the intersection of his grave is not now known. William Kiffin was so celebrated a person, and made such a distinguished…

  • William Kiffin

    The Life And Ministry Of William Kiffin

    I have said that this church, though avowedly Baptist, admitted other than baptized believers to fellowship; but when they went still further, and invited unbaptized preachers to occupy their pulpit, William Kiffen objected, withdrew, and, in the year 1638, founded the FIRST STRICT BAPTIST CHURCH IN LONDON!! That is to say, the first Baptist church holding and teaching Particular Redemption,…

  • John Spilsbury

    The Life And Ministry Of John Spilsbury

    In 1616 (in the reign of James I.) there was a mixed Protestant Dissenting church gathered in Broad Street, Wapping. Some of these good people were Baptists. The first pastor chosen by the mixed congregation was one Henry Jacob, an Independent—though even he eventually became a Baptist. Years passed (as they have a habit of doing), and Mr. John Lathrop…

  • John Skepp

    The Life And Ministry Of John Skepp

    John Skepp was born about the year 1675. He was originally a member of the Independent Church, at Cambridge, under the care of the famous Joseph Hussey; at what time he became a Baptist is not known. Prior to 1715, he was chosen Pastor of the Baptist Church, at Curriers’ Hall, Cripplegate; that Church of which Mr. Skepp himself says,…