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000 Woodcut by Verdue Works, preface back 001 Joseph Stennett, op cit., (Works), I, B7. back 002 Ibid., I B19; III (London: 1731), 2197. back 003 Ibid., I, B8f. back 004 Payne, Free Church Tradition in the Life of England, p. 69. back 005 Whitley, A Baptist Bibliography, I, 117; II, 63. A Baptist Bibliography (Start), back 006 Joseph Stennett, op cit., I, B9. back 007 Joseph Stennett, op. cit., IV (London: 1732), 284-288; cf. The Sabbath Recorder, Oct. 29, 1857, p. 84. back 008 Brooks Norford, The Story of Religion in England (London: 1893), pp. 194-197. back 009 Ibid., p. 249. back 010 Ibid., p. 271. back 011 The Sabbath Recorder, March 1, 1883 says he joined on Sept. 28, 1686, but the reunion was not held until the "14th day of the eighth month," which was then October (14). Members joined the organization at end of that month, so I say he joined in October, not September. (Pinners] Hall Record Book, pp. 1f.) back 012 Pinners' Hall Record Book, pp. 3ff. In these old quotations, only rarely have I taken the liberty to modernize the capitalization and spellings. back 013 Ibid., p. 13. back 014 Joseph Stennett, op. cit., I, b9f, C. E. Whitney, Studies in English Puritanism From The Restoration To The Revolution (London: S.P.C.E., 1931), p.564; Godfrey Holden Pike, Ancient Meeting-Houses (London: 1870), p.175. back 015 Joseph Stennett, op. cit., I, B18; Wilson, op. cit., II, 60. back 016 David G. A. Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France (London: 1874), III, 34. back 017 Daniel Williams, Practical Discourses (London: 1738), I, xviif.; This is found in Agnew, op. cit., II, 228. back 018 A. J. Grant, The Huguenots, (London: Butterworth, 1934), p. 176; Garrett, op. cit., pp. 218, 310f. back 019 Agnew, op. cit., III, 204 alas that a "Mr. Baynes possesses a manuscript which belonged to Stennett, described as 'Reflections on the Cruel persecution which the Reformed Church in France now undergoes, and on the conduct and acts of the Assembly of the clergy of that kingdom. Translated out of the French, 4to, 1685'" back 020 Joseph Stennett, op. cit., I, B10; Pinners' Hall Record Book, p. 257 (2). back 021 Joseph Stennett, op cit. Works, IV; 273 back 022 Joseph Stennett, op cit., IV, 263 back 023 Ibid., IV, 281f; Astres is the Greek goddess of justice. back 024 Houlder, op. cit., p. 71; Samuel Stennett, A trip to Holyhead (1793), reprinted in his Works (London): 1824), III, 465f. back 025 Toynbee, op. cit., V, 316. back 026 Pinners' Hall Record Book, p. 14; cf. Payne, The Baptists of Berkshire, p. 60. H. W. Clark, History of English Nonconformity (London: Chapman & Hall, 1911), II, 131f. back 027 Pinners' Hall Record Book, p. 13. back 028 Ecclesiastical year: 26th day of the 11th month, 1689. back 029 Pinners' Hall Record Book, p. 18. The Record Book gives this three year background for the choice of Joseph as the minister· The 1732 biography of him has a swifter tone to its account. By the earnest solicitation of his friends being about this time [this follows the 1688 marriage account] prevailed on to appear in the pulpit, he preached in Devonshire-Square. The congregation . . . at Pinners' Hall had been for some time deprived of . . . Mr. Francis Bampfield This people soon fixed their eyes upon Mr. Stennett as a proper successor to so excellent a person." (Joseph Stennett, op. cit., I, B10f.) I prefer the Record Book with its detailed minutes of the business meetings. back 030 Pinners' Hall Record Book, p. 19. back 031 About 1642 or 1645, he gathered a Baptist church on St. Thames St., London. Knollys died in 1691. Cf. Whitley, The Baptists of London 1612-1928 (London: Kingsgate Press), p. 107; Whitley, History of the British Baptists, p. 109; Clark, op. cit., II, 345; W. Wheeler Robinson, The Life and Faith of the Baptists (London: Kingsgate, 1946), p. 41. back 032 Joseph Stennett, op. cit., IV, 330-352. back 033 Ibid., IV, 314-317. back 034 George J. Stevenson, Memorials of the Wesley Family (New York: 1876), pp. 67ff.; Samuel W, Duffield, English Hymns (New York: Funk & Wagnails, 1886), pp, 348f.; Joseph Stennett, op. cit., IV, 223-226. back 035 Joseph Stennett, op. cit., IV, 171, 173-181, 220f, 222, 243, 247-250. back 036 Ibid., I iii f. back 037 Ibid., I, 36. back 038 Ibid., I, Sermon IV (p. 209). back 039 Ibid., pp. 151, 165, 170ff., 190f., 211; Whitley. The Baptists of London, p. 114. back |