Samuel Pearce (1766-1799) has been remembered primarily for his remarkable piety, made known especially through the memoir penned by his close friend Andrew Fuller in 1800, soon after his death. But he also left a small body of writings. For the first time these works are gathered here between the covers of one book.
Excerpt from Memoirs of the Late Rev. Samuel Pearce, A. M., Minister of the Gospel in Birmingham: With Extracts From Some of His Most Interesting LettersWhen a child, he was very fond of him mind with the principles of religion.' At about eight or nine years of age he came home -to his father with a view of learning his bufinefs. As he advanced in life, his evil propenfities, as he has faid, began to ripen and forming conneaions with feveral v...
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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Late Rev. Samuel Pearce, A. M: With Extracts From Some of His Most Interesting Letters
There are a few, if any, thinking men, but who at some seasons have had their minds per.
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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Late Rev. Samuel Pearce, A. M., Minister of the Gospel in Birmingham: With Extracts From Some of His Most Interesting LettersWhen a child, he was very fond of him mind with the principles of religion.' At about eight or nine years of age he came home -to his father with a view of learning his bufinefs. As he advanced in life, his evil propenfities, as he has faid, began to ripen and forming conneaions with feveral v...
Classics of Reformed Spirituality seriesSamuel Pearce, a young eighteenth-century English pastor, was described by his friend and biographer Andrew Fuller as "another Brainerd"-a reference to the celebrated American missionary David Brainerd. Pastor of Cannon Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, England, during the tumultuous 1790s, and a close friend of pioneer missionary William Carey, Pearce played a key role in the early days of the Baptis...
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th cent...
