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The Life And Martyrdom Of John Frith
The subject of our present paper was a bosom friend of William Tyndale, and a very able and clever scholar at Cambridge University. John Frith was the son of an innkeeper at Seven-oaks, in Kent, where he was born about the year 1503. At a very early age he manifested a strong inclination for learning, and his abilities attracted the notice of Cardinal Wolsey, who selected him as one of the new members of his college at Oxford, which he had founded on a very magnificent scale. In the year 1525, Tyndale being in London, Frith paid him a visit; and this appears to have been the time when he was brought, under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, and through the instrumentality of Tyndale,…
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The Life And Martyrdom Of William Tyndale
There is no history in the world so replete with heroes and heroic actions as the history of England. Our national records, present one continuous portrait gallery, hung with the most brilliant galaxy of noble and patriotic characters. These heroes may be divided into two classes—the world's heroes, and God's heroes. In the former class, we include those who have gained human esteem and favour, such as the military hero, who has earned his fame at the cannon's mouth; or the philanthropic hero, who, at great personal sacrifice, it may be, strives to ameliorate the condition of a part of the human race; or the political hero, who, at some crisis in our history, has skilfully guided our nation's helm. These men have gained the…
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The Life And Ministry Of Henry Bulteel
Mr. Bulteel (then curate of St. Ebb's parish in the city of Oxford) had for some years embraced the doctrines of grace, and preached them with much fervour of mind and strength of expression. This was a new sound at the learned university, and a thing almost unheard of, that a Fellow and tutor of one of the Colleges, for such he was when he first began to preach, should embrace so thoroughly, and above all proclaim so boldly, the obnoxious doctrines of the Calvinistic creed. His church was crowded with hearers, and among them were seen many of the university students, and now and then a master of arts, myself being one of them, some of whom became his attached and regular hearers. As…
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Life And Death Of Henry Bulteel
Henry Bellenden Bulteel (1800–1866), theological controversialist, son of Thomas Bulteel of Plymstock, Devonshire, was born at Bellevue, near Plymouth, in 1800, and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 1 April 1818, when in his eighteenth year. He graduated B.A. in 1822, and took his M.A. in 1824, having been elected a fellow of Exeter College on 30 June in the previous year. He vacated his fellowship by marrying, on 6 Oct. 1829, Eleanor, sister of Alderman C. J. Sadler, pastrycook, of the High Street, Oxford. Bulteel became curate of St. Ebbe’s, Oxford, in 1826. The chief event of his life and the cause of a complete change in his ecclesiastical standing was ‘A Sermon on 1 Corinthians ii. 12, preached before the University of Oxford…
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The Life And Death Of William Rushton
Mr. William Rushton, Jun. died February 6, 1838, triumphing in the glorious gospel of the blessed God. Mr. Rushton, of Liverpool, was author of ''Letters on Particular Redemption, addressed to a Baptist Minister." For many years he conducted the evening service of Lime Street Chapel, Liverpool, the church under the pastoral care of the Rev. James Lister; and his labors his Master crowned with success. He was made through the power of the Holy Ghost the honoured instrument of building up God's elect in their most holy faith; and the glorious truths he preached to others, were his only consolation in his dying moments. He had no isms in his creed, but took the scriptures as revealed by the Divine Spirit. He considered the gospel…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Parks
In the most unthought-of and unsought-for way, it has devolved upon us to take the oversight of the following pages, whilst passing through the press. As far as the Sermons themselves are concerned, our labour has been confined to the simple reading of the proof-sheets. We have occasionally added a foot-note; otherwise we have scarcely made half-a-dozen verbal alterations: so systematic and orderly was our departed friend, both as a writer and preacher, as to render correction of anything that passed under his hand quite unnecessary. Some eight months have passed away since we received tidings of our dear brother’s departure, and with those tidings a request from his bereaved widow, churchwardens, and many friends in his congregation, that we would go and preach his…
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The Trinity In Unity
