{"id":18813,"date":"2023-07-15T02:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T02:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=18813"},"modified":"2023-07-15T02:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T02:23:02","slug":"the-first-strict-and-particular-baptist-church-in-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2023\/07\/the-first-strict-and-particular-baptist-church-in-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Strict And Particular Baptist Church In Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earthen Vessel 1874:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Planting A True Baptist Church In Lincoln<\/p>\n

On Friday evening, June 26, 1874, a Church of Baptized Believers was formed in Newland Street, meeting in Lincoln, and Mr. W. Simpson was called to and publicly recognized as the pastor. The order of service is here given, it may be useful to others: W. Simpson read and they sung a hymn. C. W. Banks read the Word, pleased for the Lord\u2019s blessing, and gave short addresses on Paul\u2019s words, \u201cGod is not the Author of confusion but of peace, as in all the Churches of the saints.\u201d Two brethren then gave lengthened accounts of their experience, faith, and of God\u2019s dealings with them, in bringing them into fellowship of the Gospel. All the friends who desired to be united together expressed their desire by uplifting their hands. Another hymn was sung, and the Church was declared to be formed and united together, according to New Testament order, pattern, principle, and hope. A more primitive service we never witnessed. The Church unanimously called brother William Simpson to the office of presiding minister and pastor, who gave a brief but expressive testimony of the Lord\u2019s mercy to him in his conversion, His faith, and of the constraining power of the Spirit in compelling him to tell publicly, in his own city, what the Lord had done for him in saving his soul; also, of his ministry to those who heard him, as the Lord\u2019s messenger, to their spiritual edification. C. W. Banks gave him, and all the members, the right-hand of fellowship. W. Simpson then presided at the Lord\u2019s Supper in a serious and scriptural manner. We received brother William Simpson as a faithful servant of Christ, one who walketh in the fear of the Lord. We earnestly pray his usefulness may increase and continue.<\/p>\n

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On Friday evening, June 26, 1874, a Church of Baptized Believers was formed in Newland Street, meeting in Lincoln, and Mr. W. Simpson was called to and publicly recognized as the pastor. The order of service is here given, it may be useful to others: W. Simpson read and they sung a hymn. C. W. Banks read the Word, pleased for the Lord\u2019s blessing, and gave short addresses on Paul\u2019s words, \u201cGod is not the Author of confusion but of peace, as in all the Churches of the saints.\u201d Two brethren then gave lengthened accounts of their experience, faith, and of God\u2019s dealings with them, in bringing them into fellowship of the Gospel. All the friends who desired to be united together expressed their desire by uplifting their hands. Another hymn was sung, and the Church was declared to be formed and united together, according to New Testament order, pattern, principle, and hope. A more primitive service we never witnessed. The Church unanimously called brother William Simpson to the office of presiding minister and pastor, who gave a brief but expressive testimony of the Lord\u2019s mercy to him in his conversion, His faith, and of the constraining power of the Spirit in compelling him to tell publicly, in his own city, what the Lord had done for him in saving his soul; also, of his ministry to those who heard him, as the Lord\u2019s messenger, to their spiritual edification. C. W. Banks gave him, and all the members, the right-hand of fellowship. W. Simpson then presided at the Lord\u2019s Supper in a serious and scriptural manner. We received brother William Simpson as a faithful servant of Christ, one who walketh in the fear of the Lord. We earnestly pray his usefulness may increase and continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":18809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1432],"tags":[1232,1226],"class_list":["post-18813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-simpson","tag-baptist-history","tag-gospel-preachers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18815,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions\/18815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}