{"id":24295,"date":"2025-02-24T00:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=24295"},"modified":"2025-02-24T00:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:18:47","slug":"the-life-and-ministry-of-frederick-fuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/02\/the-life-and-ministry-of-frederick-fuller\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Ministry Of Frederick Fuller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earthen Vessel 1913:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our beloved brother in the Lord was born at Ridgmount, Bedfordshire, in the year 1842, of godly parents, where he followed the Lord in the ordinance of believer\u2019s baptism. Shortly after, he was called to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ, and for 46 years he was well-known as a very acceptable preacher among the Causes of truth, especially in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. In 1880 he became pastor of the Strict Baptist Church at Aylesbury, where for thirteen years he ministered with the Lord\u2019s blessing and approval. In after days he often referred to the hallowed seasons that he spent among the Lord\u2019s people at Aylesbury. In 1893 he retired from the pastorate, but not from the ministry, and came with Mrs. Fuller to reside permanently at Bedford. Here he became interested in an old-established Cause of the followers of William Huntington, and preached for them one and often two Sabbaths a month, and frequently on the week-evenings, until his last illness. His ministry was much appreciated and enjoyed, and is sadly missed by those friends in Bedfor who love the doctrines of sovereign and distinguishing grace. On the other Sabbaths he supplied among his own people around him.<\/p>\n

In the early part of the year the hand of the Lord was laid upon him; so that soon the message would come, \u201cThe Master is come, and calleth for thee,\u201d and so he was laid aside, but the Lord gave him much patience and submission to His divine will. I visited him on several occasions, and found him very blessedly resting on the Lord Jesus and the precious truths he had been favored to preach. On my last visit, a week or two before his departure, he asked me to give out his favorite hymn to be sung:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy God, the covenant of thy love<\/p>\n

Abides for ever sure,<\/p>\n

And in its matchless grace I feel<\/p>\n

My happiness secure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he said to me, \u201cThat is what I am resting upon.\u201d He gave me an affectionate farewell, \u201cBut,\u201d he said, \u201cwe shall meet in heaven.\u201d Then, on July 31st<\/sup>, the call to come up higher came to him, and he entered into the rest that remains for the people of God in the 71st<\/sup> year of his age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His mortal remains were taken to Aylesbury; there his body lies among the people that he loved, awaiting the glorious resurrection day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He was indeed a brother and a minister of the Lord Jesus; much loved by a ll who knew him. We pray that Mrs. Fuller (who survives him) may be graciously sustained under her loss and affliction, and blessedly realize that underneath are the everlasting arms.<\/p>\n

A. B. Hall<\/p>\n

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Our beloved brother in the Lord was born at Ridgmount, Bedfordshire, in the year 1842, of godly parents, where he followed the Lord in the ordinance of believer\u2019s baptism. Shortly after, he was called to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ, and for 46 years he was well-known as a very acceptable preacher among the Causes of truth, especially in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. In 1880 he became pastor of the Strict Baptist Church at Aylesbury, where for thirteen years he ministered with the Lord\u2019s blessing and approval. In after days he often referred to the hallowed seasons that he spent among the Lord\u2019s people at Aylesbury. In 1893 he retired from the pastorate, but not from the ministry, and came with Mrs. Fuller to reside permanently at Bedford. Here he became interested in an old-established Cause of the followers of William Huntington, and preached for them one and often two Sabbaths a month, and frequently on the week-evenings, until his last illness. His ministry was much appreciated and enjoyed, and is sadly missed by those friends in Bedfor who love the doctrines of sovereign and distinguishing grace. On the other Sabbaths he supplied among his own people around him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":555,"featured_media":24294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1807],"tags":[1232,1226],"class_list":["post-24295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frederick-fuller","tag-baptist-history","tag-gospel-preachers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295","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\/555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24296,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions\/24296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}