Joseph Stennett
Personal Religion footnotes
Joseph Stennett
Personal Religion footnotes
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051 (London); The heading of the preface tells us that Samuel lived in Hatton Garden in 1769 (this was a part of London, I suppose). back 052 (London); this edition may be seen at the historical section of the Library of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, New York. back 053 This edition may be seen at the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society in Plainfield, New Jersey. (now in Janesville, Wisconsin) back 054 These may be seen at Colgate-Rochester or here at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkley, California. back 055 Discources on Personal Religion as found in Works : I, 1. back 056 Ibid. , I, 5. back 057 Ibid. , I, 16. back 058 Ibid. , I, 66. back 059 Ibid. , I, 30. back 060 Ibid. I, 31.; cf. i, 358. back 061 Ibid. , I, 46. back 062 Ibid. , p. 61. back 063 Ibid. , pp. 61ff. These quotations on religious tolerance and Christian love are also found in a book by John Evans: A Preservative Against the Infidelity and Uncharitableness of the Eighteenth Century or Testimonies in Behalf of Christian Candor and Unanimity (London: prob. 1796), pp. 205ff. This Evans might be a son of Caleb Evans, who was a friend of the Stennetts. back 064 Works , I, 267f. back 065 Ibid. ., I, 280. back 066 Ibid. , I, 311. back 067 This Samuel Stillman a Baptist minister in Boston in 1763. He is to be distinguished from the Samuel Stillman of Philadelphia also a Baptist who in 1776 preached the funeral sermon for Gov. Samuel Ward, a Seventh Day Baptist, who died in 1776. Although the name "Stillman" has been a common name among American Seventh Day Baptists, as far as I have been able to find out, neither of these men were connected with Seventh Day Baptists. ( Dictionary of American Biography , ed. by Dumas Malone [New York: Scribners, 1936 1, XVIII, SDBd in EA , II, 638.) back 068 Whitley, A History of British Baptists , p. 208. There is another account of what was probably the same action; it tell of a Mr. Manning writing to Stennett on June 5, 1771. Stennett, with Dr. Llewelyn and Mr. WalIin, went to King George III about the tax law, and the king "disallowed" it on July 31, 1771. back 069 Encyclopaedia Britannica , XXII, 780ff. back 070 The Baptists of London , p. 125. back 071 The Folly and Danger ... , p. 8; cf. p. 2 ( Works , III, 400; cf. III, 399). back 072 The Folly and Danger .... , pp. 5ff. ( Works , III, 399f.). back 073 The Folly and Danger .... , p. 18; cf. p. 15 ( Works , III, 405; cf. pp. 403 f.). back 074 The Poliy and Danger .... , p. 20 ( Works , III, 406). back 075 The Folly and Danger .... , pp. 28f. ( Works , III, 410). back 076 The Victorious Christian Receiving the Crown (London: 1771 and 1772 [second ed]; this quotation is from Works , III, 151. back 077 Works , III 171. It is said that Gill and Joseph Stennett II differed "on the subject of the invitations of the gospel to ... unconverted hearers" (Ivimey, op. cit., III, 578). back 078 Ivimey, op. cit. , IV, 26f; Samuel Stennett, A Free and Dispassionate Account of the Late Application of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers to Parliament (London: 1772), pp. 3-6, 26-31. back 079 Ibid. , p. 15. back 080 Minutes of the General Assembly of the General Baptist Churches in England , II, 146f. back 081 A Free and Dispassionate Account ... , p. 1. back 082 Ibid. , pp. 37f. back 083 Ibid. , p. 8. back 084 Ibid. , pp. 15ff. back 085 Ibid. , pp. 41f. back |
