Charles Spurgeon called Andrew Fuller the greatest theologian of his day. Fuller pastored in Kettering and considered himself a “strict Calvinist.” However, his associations with Ryland, Sutcliff, Carey, Pearce and Hall, led them all (all being strict Calvinists) to propose that the gospel must be taken to the heathen. Fuller wrote this treatise in 1785, […]
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An Enquiry
In 1792 a group of nonconformist Particular Baptists were praying together about what could be done for missions. Many Particular (Calvinistic) Baptists did not believe anything could be done by human means to reach people in foreign lands. In May of that year William Carey expressed his own heart in the above titled booklet which […]
Early Baptist Missionaries and Pioneers
To fulfill two of my determinations about reading, a) mixing older books into my reading schedule and b) not passing up good bargains in used book stores, this book found its way to my night stand over the last couple months. It is a 1925 Judson Press edition from the Northern Baptist Convention’s Missionary Board. […]
Life and Letters of John Broadus
We all ought to read more biographies, especially of men of God who have greatly influenced church history. John Broadus was a nineteenth-century Baptist and Greek scholar and was one of the men who founded Southern Baptist Seminary. The book is written by his successor and son-in-law, A.T. Robertson. Robertson collected correspondence to and from […]
Baptists and the Bible
This 1980 Moody book reads more like a list of biographies than a doctrine or church history book. The authors’ purpose was to show how Baptists have believed in the verbal inspiration and authority of the Scripture. In doing this, they include 29 stories of Baptists (ranging from giants like Gill, Spurgeon, Carroll, Robertson to […]
Morning and Evening
My choice for this year’s day-by-day reading. Great book! “The Scriptures are the swaddling bands of the Holy Child Jesus; unroll them and you find your Saviour. The quintessence of the Word of God is Christ. This volume contains Jesus Christ’s letters to us, perfumed by His love. These pages are the garments of our […]
The New Directory for Baptist Churches
Many of us ministers were introduced to Hiscox’s writings on Baptist Church polity when we were in Bible College and Seminary. Hundreds of pages on church structure, proper order, and personal piety didn’t seem as exciting in school days as did formulas for success. But now, many years later, seeing the turmoil and reluctance in […]
A History of the English Baptists
I found this Baptist history in my local “Used Christian Books” store, It was published by The Carey Kingsgate Press, London, 1947. It is one of those unique histories that is unaffected by the contemporary penchant for mere story telling. It pulls no punches when it comes to describing the persecutions Baptists experienced at the […]
William Carey: the pioneer missionary
One of my joys of perusing the used book stores is finding good biographies on great men of God. It is hard to go wrong reading about the life of William Carey! Carey called himself a “Dissenter” and not a “Churchman.” He was not an Arminian Baptist but neither was he a hyper-Calvinist as his […]
Water of Life
This small book is forwarded by Charles Spurgeon and reprinted in America by Gospel Publishers in MT. I found this copy in a used book store. Listen to Bunyan on the abuses of grace: “Alas! What can be expected of him that has nothing in him to teach him to manage that knowledge of grace […]