The Stennets of England Prefix Footnotes
1 Payne, The Free Church Tradition in the Life of England , p. 151.
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2 Scholasticism is the defending of a doctrine for the doctrine's sake.
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3 Clark, op. cit. , I, 3; cf. Payne, The Free Church Tradition in the Life of England, p. 143.
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4 B. E. Meland, Modern Man's Worship (New York: Harper, 1934), p. 136.
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5 Cf. The Sabbath Recorder , Feb. 10, 1853, p. 138: "The time has not been, for nearly a century past, when we have not been blessed with some educated men, who would compare with those of other denominations. I hope the time will never come when we shall be so ungrateful as to forget those noted and worthy servants of God, the STENNETTS, whose works a re so universally esteemed among Protestants, and are to be found occupying a place in the libraries of the principal; institutions of learning in America and Europe."
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6 Payne, The Free Church Tradition in the Life of England , pp. 20f.
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7 For instance, he fought for the release of Dissenter ministers from having to subscribe to the doctrinal articles of the Church of England; he did this, not for his own sake, but to procure religious freedom for all men.
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8 An Answer to the Christian Minister's . . . p. 285.
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9 II, 1350-55.
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10 II, 1355f.
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11 The Sabbath Recorder , June 26, 1845, p.209; cf. the same ideas, but no personal attack on Samuel Stennett, in The Sabbath Recorder , March 11, 1868, p. 42.
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12 SD Bs in EA , I, 63; on point one, cf. Jubilee Papers (Alfred Centre, N.Y.: American Sabbath Tract Society, 1892), p. 18.
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13 SDBs in EA , I, 47.
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14 James Gilfillan, The Sabbath (New York: American Tract Society, probably 1862), p. 142.
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15 For example, see George Carlow, A Defense of the Sabbath (a 1724 book reprinted in New York: American Sabbath Tract Society, 1347).
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16 We recall that one of Edward's small books on the Sabbath was the primary motivation that led one minister, Edward CoweIl, to leave the seventh day Sabbath.
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17 Besides the above four reasons for the decline of English Seventh Day Baptists, there are several other possible causes. William Jones, a late nineteenth century English Seventh Day Baptist minister, suggests that at the rise of Seventh Day Baptists, "stringent laws of persecution and the influence of Dissenters in union with Churchmen" prevented their becoming an important denomination ( Jubilee Papers , p. 11). Walter Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wis., in conversation in Dec. 1951, said that even when he visited England early in this century, there were practically no employment opportunities for those who might wish to observe Saturday as the Sabbath.
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