{"id":1415,"count":1,"description":"Thomas Bradbury (1831-1905) was a sovereign grace preacher. In 1874, he was appointed pastor of the church meeting at Grove Chapel, Camberwell, a position he held for thirty-one years. He served as a local missionary during the first part of his ministry and assumed the role of itinerate preacher (often making trips to America) during the latter part of his ministry. In one of his sermons, with reference to high views of sovereign grace, he laments\u2014\u201cAre these truths of God's Word and covenant loved in the ranks of Nonconformity? Precious little! And where they are acknowledged, an amazing amount of indifference exists in regard to the spirituality and vitality thereof. Preachers of free-grace in the morning, free-will in the evening, and both at noon are plentiful. Yea and nay, do and live, duty-faith and conditional salvation are heralded to the four winds of heaven, producing hypocrites in abundance. Preachers conniving with worldly things, and suiting their message to the likes or dislikes of the people, abound. O may God keep me from pleasing men! And while He blesses me as He has done and continues to do with bright conceptions of His love, sweet experiences of His mercy, and blessed views of His glorious sovereignty, I cannot truckle or pander to the taste, whims, or wishes of any people.\u201d","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/thomas-bradbury\/","name":"Thomas Bradbury","slug":"thomas-bradbury","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}