On a bit more pleasant note than the Christmas 1677 meeting, the Wapping Church took up a special collection for London pastor Benjamin Keach on December 25, 1679 in response to his recently having been robbed. December 25th 1679 The Congregation in old Gravell Lane Did then Raise and give to Bro. Benj. Keach when [...]
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Christmas 1679: A Collection for Benjamin Keach
Posted in Church Minutes, Hercules Collins on January 26, 2012 | Comments Off
Christmas 1677
Posted in Church Minutes, Hercules Collins on January 24, 2012 | Comments Off
While working through the Wapping Church minute book, I discovered this festive account from 1677. The church had voted to withdraw fellowship from Okey in June of the year. Apparently that was not okay with Okey. Okey had responded by praying for God to kill the pastor, Hercules Collins. The church took the following further [...]
Hercules Collins Audio
Posted in Audio, Hercules Collins on September 30, 2010 | Comments Off
No, we don’t have any recordings from this seventeenth-century Baptist pastor, but I have delivered a few lectures about Hercules Collins which are available in MP3 format below: “Hercules Collins and The Temple Repair’d: Baptists and Theological Education” (MP3) From the 2nd Annual Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies Conference “The English Baptists of the [...]
“Hold Fast What Thou Hast”
Posted in A Voice from Prison, Hercules Collins on May 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Hercules Collins published A Voice from the Prison from his prison cell. This work was an extended meditation on Revelation 3:11 where Christ admonishes the church of Philadelphia with the words, “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” (KJV) Collins addressed this sermon “To the Church of God, [...]
Hercules Collins on Sermon Preparation and Dependence Upon God
Posted in Hercules Collins, Sermon Delivery, Sermon Preparation, The Temple Repair'd on November 8, 2009 | Comments Off
We may say in this case, as we use to speak about Salvation, that we ought to live so holily as if we were to be sav’d by our living, and yet when we have done all, to rely upon Christ and his Righteousness; so we should labour in Study, as if we should have no [...]
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