{"id":21213,"date":"2024-03-14T23:12:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=21213"},"modified":"2024-03-14T23:18:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:18:38","slug":"elisha-coles-on-gods-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2024\/03\/elisha-coles-on-gods-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisha Coles On &#8220;God&#8217;s Sovereignty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John E. Hazelton, &#8220;Hold Fast&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201dElisha Coles on \u201cGod\u2019s Sovereignty\u201d should also be mentioned as a book written in a most concise and interesting manner and well calculated to be helpful to young Christians. It was warmly recommended by Goodwin, Owen and Romaine. It was written by a plain Bible-reader engaged in business and but little versed in the niceties of the schools. Like Edward Polhill, of Burwash, the author of \u201cThe Mystical Union Betwixt Christ and Believers\u201d and other works, Coles was not a preacher, but just a prayerful, Spirit-taught believer, who knew much of the ups and downs of business life.\u201c<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"21213\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"4\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201dElisha Coles on \u201cGod\u2019s Sovereignty\u201d should also be mentioned as a book written in a most concise and interesting manner and well calculated to be helpful to young Christians. It was warmly recommended by Goodwin, Owen and Romaine. It was written by a plain Bible-reader engaged in business and but little versed in the niceties of the schools. Like Edward Polhill, of Burwash, the author of \u201cThe Mystical Union Betwixt Christ and Believers\u201d and other works, Coles was not a preacher, but just a prayerful, Spirit-taught believer, who knew much of the ups and downs of business life.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":19538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1546],"tags":[1232],"class_list":["post-21213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elisha-coles","tag-baptist-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213","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\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21219,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions\/21219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}