Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know

The following links constitute a series at Credo Magazine, written by Steve Weaver. The list of ten is somewhat SBC-centric. Steve is a Southern Baptist. The list might be different compiled by others with different interests and different priorities. Nevertheless, you readers who like Baptist history will find the ten stories enlightening and enjoyable.

• Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know: William Kiffin -- “Orphaned as a child of only 9 years, Kiffin was apprenticed as a glover by the age of 13.”
• Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know: Benjamin Keach -- “Keach’s theological pilgrimage took him from his baptism as an infant in the Church of England, to becoming a convinced credo-baptist as a teenager, to his position as the leading Particular Baptist theologian at the end of the seventeenth century.”
• Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know: William Carey -- “...by the age of sixteen Carey would be apprenticed to a shoemaker in Piddington. One of his fellow apprentices, a young man named John Warr, was a dissenting Christian.”
• Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know: John Gill -- “Gill more than earned the nickname, ‘Dr. Voluminous,’ by publishing more than ten thousand pages during his lifetime!”
• Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know: Andrew Fuller -- “Fuller’s writings began with the aforementioned Gospel of Worthy of All Acceptation in which he argued that it is the responsibility of all sinners to believe the gospel and the responsibility of all believers to proclaim the gospel to sinners.”
• Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know: Adoniram Judson -- “The day before Judson was ordained for mission work he had married Ann Hasseltine. Ann would prove to be a wonderful help-meet to Adoniram.”
• Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know: John Leadley Dagg -- “Dagg was converted at the age of 15 in the year 1809. Although Dagg was surrounded by Presbyterian influences, he began to study the doctrine of infant baptism.”
• Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know: James Petigru Boyce -- “Boyce was a ‘gentleman theologian’ who not only taught his students Bible doctrines, but also matters of social etiquette.”
• Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know: Charles Haddon Spurgeon -- “Four years later, Charles Spurgeon received a call to pastor the legendary New Park Street Baptist Church in London at the young age of nineteen. This church had been previously pastored by such luminaries as Benjamin Keach, John Gill, and John Rippon.”
• Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know: Edgar Young Mullins -- “There were three major theological issues to which Mullins responded in his day. In all three he seems to have assumed a mediating role.”