Joseph Stennett
Footnotes - Life - Defense of Dissenters
Joseph Stennett
Footnotes - Life - Defense of Dissenters
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244 Samuel Stennett Works , III, 524. back 245 Ibid. , III, 466f. back 246 Price and Priestly tended to favor the French Revolution: Encyclopaedia Britannica , XVIII, 467f., 482. back 247 Samuel Stennett, Works , III, 476-479. back 248 Ibid. , III, 482. back 249 Ibid. , III, 485. back 250 Ibid. , III, 485-494. back 251 Ibid. , III, 496ff., 500. back 252 Garrett, op. cit. , pp. 580-586, 598, 602. back 253 Samuel Stennett, Works , III, 51 4f.; cf. Houlder, op. cit. , p. 119 which says that the Dissenters had some sympathy with the American Revolution and also with the French Revolution in its early stages. back 254 Samuel Stennett, Works ., III, 516. back 255 Ibid. , III, 520. back 256 Ibid. , III, 523f.; much of this is a paraphase of Rom. 13: 1-7. back 257 Ibid. , III, 521. back 258 Albert Schweitzer, Civilization and Ethics (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1949, p. 100. back 259 The formal society was "Particular Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathens." See C. S. Home, A Popular History of the Free Churches (London: 1903), p. 332 and William R. Williams, Lectures on Baptist History (Philadelphia: Am. Rapt. Pub. Soc., 1877), P. 298; Walker, op. cit. , pp. 522f. back 260 Eustace Carey, Memoir of William Carey, D. D. (Hartford: 1837), p. 86 and Joseph Belcher, William Carey (Philadelphia: Am. Bapt. Pub. Soc., 1853), p. 73. A. C. Chute, John Thomas (Halifax, N. S.: 1893) says Thomas was baptised by a Rev. Mr. Burnham on Christmas Day, 1784, but by weight of numbers, I prefer the 1785 Baptism by Stennett. back 261 James Culross, William Carey (New York: Armstrong, 1882), p. 50. back 262 This account is drawn mostly from S. Pearce Carey, William Carey (Philadelphia: Judson, 1923), p. 112. back 263 A. F-I. Oussoren: William Carey (Leiden: Sijthoff's Uitgeversmeatschappij, 1945), p. 43; George Smith, The Life of Wm. Carey, D. D. (London: 1885), p. 54; Home, op. cit. , p. 332; Williams, op. cit. , p. 298; John Clark Marshman, The Life and Times of Carey, Marshman and Ward (London: Longman et al, 1859), 1, 17. back 264 Pearce Carey, op. cit. , p. 112. back 265 Eustace Carey, op. cit. , p. 84; Belcher, op. cit. , p. 77; Culross, op. cit. , p. 47n. back 266 Ibid. , p. 49. back 267 Ibid. , p. 62f. back 268 Ibid. , pp. 66f. back 269 Ibid. , pp. 101, 105f. back 270 Ibid. , passim . back 271 Rippon, Annual Baptist Register 1794-97, pp. 385f. back 272 Ibid. , p. 386; Baptist Quarterly , VIII, no. 6 (April 1937), p. 302; Ivimey, op. cit. , IV, 364; Preface to the Sermon ... decease of John Howard ( Works III, 279) and the preface to the Discourses on the ... Holy Scriptures ( Works , III, iv). back 273 Ivimey, op. cit. IV, 359. back 274 Rippon, Annual Baptist Register 1794-97, pp. 386-389; Burrage, op. cit. , p. 59; Protestant Dissenter's Magazine , II (Sept. 1795), 367. The former two sources give Samuel's death date as Aug. 21 and the latter as Aug. 25. On the sermons by Booth and Jenkins, see Joseph Jenkins, The Love of the Brethren, proceeding from a Perception of the Love of God (London: 1795); the quotation is from p. 55; cf. David Bogue and James Bennett, History of Dissenters , IV (London: 1812), 48O: "'the sufferings of Christ are my support: what should I do now if I had only such opinions of him as Dr. Priestey?.'" Stermett's church paid for the expenses of the funeral and had the Jenkins and Booth sermons published (Iviney, op. cit. , TV, 359ff.). back 275 Daniel Turner, The Gracious Presence of God, the Chief Joy of His People (Oxford: prob. 1795); Protestant Dissenter's Magazine , II, 486; Payne, Baptists of Berkshire p. 83. back 276 (Probably printed in London in 1795), pp. 9, 31. back 277 John Evans, Sermon ... in Memory of Samuel Stennett ... (London: 1795), pp. 17f.; cf. Lincoln. op. cit. , p. 62 on this sermon. There was also a notice of Samuel's death in the London Times, August 30, 1795; Palmer's Index to the Times Newspaper 1795, Summer Quarter, July-Sept. 30 (Shepperton-on-Thames: Samuel Palmer, 1914 p. 10. back 278 Samuel Stennett, Works , I, xxviff,; Rippon, Annual Baptist Register 794-97, pp. 380-386; Protestant Dissenter's Magazine , 11, 368f.; John Stoughton, History of Religion in England (London: Fodder and Stoughton, 1881), p. 365; Bouge and Bennett, op. cit. , IV, 478; Burrage, op. cit. , p. 56. back 279 Payne, Baptists of Berkshire , pp. 81 f. back 280 Rippon, Annual Baptist Register 1794-97, p. 276, 394. back 281 Whitely, The Baptists of London , p. 135. back 282 Rippon, Annual Baptist Register 1794-97, p. 383. back 283 Whitely, The Baptists of London , p. 126; Ivimey, op. cit. , IV, 363f.; Rippon, Annual Baptist Register 1794-97, pp. 384. back 284 The Sabbath Recorder , Aug. 5, 1807, p. 806. back |
