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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
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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,…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Jull
Mr. J. Jull, Pastor, Eden Chapel, Cambridge Dear Mr. Winters,—As you have expressed a wish that I should give you a short account of my call by grace, and to the ministry, for publication in the E. V. & G. H., I do so with pleasure. I was born at Wrotham Water Farm, in the county of Kent; was brought up in a moral way, and at the age of 14 years left boarding-school, and came home to assist my mother (who had been left a widow, in the management of the farm. Through leaving school and becoming my own master while so young, the seeds of evil and wickedness began to show themselves in my using oaths, hating the Bible, and speaking of it…
