Joseph Stennett
Footnotes - Life
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001 Rippon, op. cit. , 1794-97, P. 380 -- this biography is drawn up chiefly by Dr. Joseph Jenkins, and it was reprinted in Samual Stennett, Discourses on the Parables of the Sower (Bridgeton, N. J.: 1823); Henry C. Vedder, The Baptists (New York, Baker and Taylor, 1903), p. 123; Cathart, op. cit. , p.1102. back 002 Rippon, op. cit. , 1794-97, p. 381; H. McLachlan, English Education under the Test Acts (Manchester: 1931), p. 176; Encyclopaedia Britannica XXI, 388. back 003 Rippon, op. cit. , 1794-97, pp. 381 f. back 004 Samuel Stennett, op. cit. , I, ix -- this is the biography of Samuel which is prefaced to his works and was probably written by the editor, Win. Jones; Iviney, op. cit. , IV, 351. back 005 Transactions of the British Baptist Historical Society , V (1916-17), 229. back 006 Ibid. , VI (1918-19), 72. back 007 The Sabbath Recorder , Aug. 2, 1855, p. 29. back 008 The Protestant Dissenter's Magazine , VI (London: 1799), 223 mentions the death of Haley when it tells of a letter Joseph II had written from Bath to the Little Wild Street Church in London on Nov. 30, 1757; cf. Ivimey, op. cit. , III, 583-7. (Samuel's wife died on March 16, 1795 and they had been married for more than forty years [Rippon, op. cit. , 1794-97, pp. 385f.].) back 009 Ivimey, op. cit. , IV, 351; 111, 590f. back 010 Ibid. , IV, 351; Samuel Stennett, Works , I, xff., Samuel wrote the letter from Bartholomew Close. back 011 Ibid. , I xii; Ivimey, op. cit. , iv, 355. back 012 The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley , A. M., ed. by Nehemiah Curnock (New York: Eaton and Mains, 1909), V, 264n.; The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley , ed. by John Telford (London: Epworth, 1931), V, 89. Wesly wrote about about the incident in a letter dated May 23, 1768. He does not specify whether it is Joseph Stennett II or Samuel Stennett. in The Letters ., the editor mentions the "father of Dr. Joseph Stennett, jun." so I suppose he thought it was Joseph II who was involved in the incident. However, Because Wesly in 1768 had "never yet" seen Stennett, and Joseph II died in 1758, I am inclined to think it was Samuel who was involved in the incident. back 013 Anthony Lincoln, Some Political and Social Ideas of English Dissent 1763-1800 (Cambridge: 1938), p. 23; Brendy, op.cit. , p. 158. back 014 A Sermon occasioned by the Death of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Second (preached in Little Wild Street, Nov. 2, 1760) (London: 1760), p. 1. (This sermon is also in his Works III, 177-198.) (This sermon title will be abbreviated, Sermon ... Death of George II . Other sermon titles will also be abbreviated after their initial use.) back 015 Sermon ... Death of George II , pp. 2, 3, 30, 36 ( Works , Ill, 179f., 192, 195). back 016 Sermon ... Death of George II , p. 34 ( Works , III, 194). back 017 Rippon, op. cit. , 1794-97, p. 382. Cf. Lincoln, op. cit. , pp. 73f.: By the close of the eighteenth century, the giving of honorary ministerial degrees "had become so common as to be disreputable; when Robert Robertson was offered a Doctorate of Divinity from Edinburgh he considered that `so many egregious dunces have been made D. D.s both in English as well as Scotch and American Univesities, that he declined the compliment." back 018 John Evans Sermon ... in Memory of Rev. Samuel ... (London: Ca. 1795), p. iv. back 019 Pinners' Hall Record Book , p. 128; cf. Whitley, The Babtists of London , p. 119; The Sabbath Recorder, Oct. 3, 1844, p. lvimey, op. cit. , IV, 326. back 020 The Various Use of Authority and Experience in Matters of Religion (London: 1764), pp. 10, 6 (This is also in Works , III, 206, 203). back 021 The Various Use ... , pp. 42f. ( Works , III, 223). back 022 The Various Use ... , p. 15 ( Works , III, 208). back 023 The Various Use ... , pp. 27f. ( Works , III, 215). back 024 The Various Use ... , p. 40f. ( Works , III, 223). back 025 The Various Use ... , p. 43. ( Works , III, 223). back 026 The Various Use ... , p. 47 ( Works , III, 225). back 027 The Various Use ... , p. 48 ( Works , III, 226). back 028 The Various Use ... , pp. 26f. ( Works , III, 214). back 029 The Various Use ... , p. 19.( Works , III, 211). back 030 The Various Use ... , pp. 25f. ( Works , III, 214). back 031 The Various Use ... , p. 20 ( Works , III, 211). back 032 The Various Use ... , p. 30 ( Works , III, 216). back 033 The Various Use ... , p. 33 Works , III, 218) back 034 The Various Use ... , p. 34 ( Works , III, 219) back 035 The Various Use ... , p.45 ( Works , III, 224) back 036 The Various Use ... , p. 50 ( Works , III, 227) back 037 The Various Use ... , p. 52 ( Works , III, 230) back 038 The Various Use ... , p. 50 ( Works , III, 227) back 039 The Various Use ... , p. 54 ( Works , III, 229) back 040 This sermon was preached at "Shakespear's Walk" and the text was Luke 10:42. The British Museum -- Catalog of Printed Books mentions two editions in 1766; Whitley, A Baptist Bibliography mentions there were three impressions in 1766. back 041 Payne, Baptists of Berkshire , p. 90. The Pinners' Hall Record Book (p. 128) says of the Stennett Sabbath morning supply and of the several ministers who supplied in the afternoon: "This state of things continued during upwards of the twenty years, allowing for the short interim from the occupancies by the Rev. Thomas Whitewood's Ministry, who died a few weeks after he was chosen pastor." The Sabbath Recorder (Oct. 3, 1344) says, "the church gave itself to the pastoral care of Edmund Townsend, who continued until his death in 1765. Mr. Thomas Whitewood succeeded him, but only preached three times before he was removed by death. For nearly twenty years after the death of Mr. Whitewood, Dr. Samuel Stennett ..." This account is in error in at least two ways: (1) Townsend died in 1763 according to the record book and (2) Stennett preached four years before Whitewood's ministry as well as the nearly twenty years afterwards. SDBs in EA says that Whitewood began his ministry in June and died in October (I, 54). back 042 Payne, Baptist of Berkshire , p. 79. back 043 Minutes of the General Assembly of the General Baptist Churches In England , II, 133. back 044 SDBs in EA , I, 53; Wilson, op. cit. , II, 581. back 045 A Charge Delivered At The Ordination of the Rev. Caleb Evans , p.46. This was published and went into a second edition this same year. back 046 Ibid. , p. 48. back 047 Samuel Stennett, A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Samuel Burford (London: 1768, second ed.). I am using the pagination that is in his Works: III, 363. back 048 Ibid. , III, 347ff. back 049 Ibid. , III, 344. back 050 Samuel Stennett, A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Abraham Booth (published in 1769), pp. 78ff. Works , III, 386f. back N01 Samuel Stennett, Works , I (London, 1824), pp. x-xii. back N02 John Stanley, The church in the hop garden (London: Kingsgate Press, 1935?), p. 166; Stanley does have some degree of confusion so should be relied only with caution. back N03 E. J. Tongue, Dr. John Ward's Trust (London: Carey Kingsgate Press, 1951), p. 15. back N04 Transactions of the Baptist Historial Society , VI (1918-19), p. 85. back N05 A brief history of the Baptist church in Little Wild Street (London: G. Wightman, 1835), p. 11. back. N06 Stanley, op. cit. , p. 168. back N07 Deed is at the Baptist Union Corp., Didcot, Oxfordshire; the Stennett residence is noted in Stennett, op. cit. , p. xvi. back N08 Gentleman's magazine , June 1791, 583. back N09 Little Wild Street Church book , 1726-1805; this was at the Baptist Church House (in London as of 1981) but the book presumably has been moved to Regent's Park College, Oxford. back N010 John Rippon, The Baptist annual register , [III] (1798-1801), 117. back N011 BQ, 16 (1955-6), 328. back N012 John Stanley, The church in the hop garden (London: Kingsgate Press, 1935?), pp. 166-173. back N013 Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society , VII, no. 3-4 (1921), p. 231. back N014 Stanley, op. cit. , 127. back N015 lvan George Sparkes, Introducing Farington Baptist Church. 1657-1957 ... (Tuckaway, Baringon, Berks., W. G. Berry, 1957) (a typescript), title page verso. back N016 Church in the Hop Garden , p. 169. back N017 National Library of Wales, Isaac Mann's letter collection; summarized in Baptist quarterly , VI (1932-33), p. 223. back N018 Baptist annual register , ed. by John Rippon, III (1798-1801), pp. 1097-1099. back N019 National Library of Wales, Isaac Mann letter collection; summarized in the Baptist quarterly , VI (1932-33), p. 277. back N020 Yale University, Osborn Collection, Mann box. back N021 Church book 1817 of the Zion Strict or Particular Baptist chapel. back N022 Robert W. Oliver, The chapels of Wiltshire ... (London: Strict Baptist Historical Society, 1968) ( The Strict Baptist chapels of England , v. 5), p. 48. back N023 1655 to 1955; the Lord hath done great things ... ([Calne] Castle Street Baptist Church, 1955), p. 7; Roger Hayden, Evangelical Calvinism (Ph. D. dissertation, Univ. of Keele), 412. back N024 Norfolk Record Office, Ms. 4344, "The Baptist Denomination in Norfolk and the Baptist Church at Ingham Founded in 1653," evidently by W. H. Cooke, f. 9. back N025 Letter of Robert Burnside to Dr. Samuel Stennett, Dec. 23, 1779, in BQ IX (1938-39), p. 426; Burnside letter of July 13, 1818 (Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society), to American Seventh Day Baptists. back |