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Selina, Countess Of Huntingdon And Her Connexion
Lovers of eighteenth century church history will have often come across the name of Lady Huntingdon and the ministry which she founded. Often, however, her name is merely dropped here and there in passing and when more space is afforded her, it is invariably in conjunction with well-known preachers such as Wesley, Doddridge, Whitefield, Toplady, Romaine and Venn. This fact has tended to place her in a subsidiary position in modern research into eighteenth century evangelism and church-growth. This is a pity as the very fact that Lady Huntingdon’s name is associated with nearly every important move of the Spirit in the eighteenth century shows what a great influence she had under God during these times. She thus deserves to be studied as a person…
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The Life And Ministry Of Nicholas Ridley
Nicholas Ridley has rightly been regarded by Christian readers throughout the centuries as a pioneer of reformation and renewal in the Church of Christ and one who defied intense persecution and death rather than betray his Lord. Though Ridley came from a long line of noblemen and Reformers, Ridley’s kinsman and biographer says of him, ‘Descended from this ancient stock, he degenerated not from the virtues of his ancestors, but gave a much greater lustre to his family than he derived from it.’1 John Foxe, the martyrologist, describes Ridley as ‘a man beautified with excellent qualities, so ghostly (spiritually) inspired and godly learned.’ Augustus Toplady says of our subject, ‘He was esteemed the most learned of all English reformers: and was inferior to none of…
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Miles Coverdale: Superintendent-At-Large Of The Reformation
Miles Coverdale was born in the North Riding village of Coverham in 1487. Little is known of his early biography apart from the fact that he studied philosophy and theology at Cambridge University, gained his doctorate at Tübingen, Germany and was ordained priest at Norwich in 1514. Thereafter, Coverdale became an Augustinian monk, spending some ten years in the service of the Roman Catholic Church. Coverdale got on very well with his superior Robert Barnes, called by John Strype ‘the great restorer of good learning’, who was later to experience a martyr’s death under Henry for his reforming theology. Coverdale and Barnes found access to the doctrines of grace through Augustine’s works which pointed them to the Bible. Both men then gathered together students and…
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The Life And Death Of Arthur Triggs
Long before this Number of the Gospel Magazine is in the hands of its readers, they will doubtless have heard of the removal to his eternal inheritance of our late valued friend and occasional correspondent, Mr. Arthur Triggs. He now realizes, in all their fulness and power, those glorious things upon which, during a lengthened ministry, he was wont to dwell. That “most glorious Christ,” whose sacred person was his all-engrossing theme, now stands revealed to him in all His perfection, loveliness, and glory. The consciousness of this fact brings to our remembrance a little circumstance in connexion with his ministry when he was in the zenith of his popularity as a preacher. He was preaching on a Sabbath evening, as was usual, to a…
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The Life And Legacy Of Arthur Triggs
This honoured servant of God was born in the village of Kingston in Devon on April 23, 1787 of poor parents and in a cottage made mostly of mud. So desperately ill was he as an infant that the doctor gave him up and said he must die; his tongue was black and hanging out and his poor mother placed upon it a slice of broiled pork and to everyone’s amazement his tongue began to move and he sucked the nourishment till he began to mend. This is but one of the extraordinary providences which he passed through. But the amazing deliverances wrought by God did not touch his soul with gratitude and he lived in vile company with hatred to God. He “wanted to…
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The Life And Testimony Of Arthur Triggs
Dear Sir,—It is seldom that the pen of your writers is employed in describing the history of one so eminently taught to preach the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as was our dear departed brother Mr. Arthur Triggs. With what simplicity, power, and grandeur did he set forth the covenant love of Jehovah in His Trinity of persons, as being all engaged to ensure the salvation of lost and ruined man; of the union which exists between Christ and His body the Church,—He the Head, we the members; and of our being complete in Him. Led by the Holy Ghost to enjoy a personal interest in that union, he was often wont to adopt a higher tone of expression than could many…
