Heard a good paper last night by Sharon James on Beddome's contemporary hymn writer and one time object of his affections, Anne Steele. See here for report.
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Great introduction - thorough scholarship in popular form
Benjamin Beddome (1717-1795) is a largely forgotten 18th Century English Baptist preacher, remembered today only as a minor hymnwriter. For over half a century he served as pastor of the Baptist church meeting at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. He is worth more than a passing glance.
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Will of Beddome's mother, Rachel
I Rachel Beddome of the City of Bristol make this my last Will and Testament if form and manner following whereas I have in a Deed dated Oc...
A Baptist there was, name of Beddome
He wrote down his sermons then said 'em
He also spent time
on Christian rhyme
They're good - I should know cos I've read 'em.
Benjamin Beddome
A saved Son of Adam
For 55 years preached in Bourton,
There's no end to the things that he taught on
(I used to have the closing line "The blast from his trump not uncertain" but that encourages the mispronunciation of Bourton)
He wrote down his sermons then said 'em
He also spent time
on Christian rhyme
They're good - I should know cos I've read 'em.
Benjamin Beddome
A saved Son of Adam
For 55 years preached in Bourton,
There's no end to the things that he taught on
(I used to have the closing line "The blast from his trump not uncertain" but that encourages the mispronunciation of Bourton)
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1650s Formed: '50 Welsh Assoc '52 Abingdon or Berkshire Assoc '53 Western Assoc '55 Midlands Assoc
1677 London Confession
1689 Glorious revolution. Rev & repub: London Confession
1690 Formed: Northern Assoc Re-formed: Midland Assoc
1690s '90-'93 National assemblies '90 Pub: "Keach" Catechism; '91 Spiritual Melody, Keach; '96 Spiritual Songs, Keach '97 First hymns, Stennett
1714 Coronation George I
'17 Birth: BB; Founded: Particular Baptist Fund
1690 Formed: Northern Assoc Re-formed: Midland Assoc
1690s '90-'93 National assemblies '90 Pub: "Keach" Catechism; '91 Spiritual Melody, Keach; '96 Spiritual Songs, Keach '97 First hymns, Stennett
1714 Coronation George I
'17 Birth: BB; Founded: Particular Baptist Fund
'19 Formed: Yorks & Lancs Assoc
'24 Founded: Baptist Board
'27 Moravian revival, Herrnhut
'33/34 Re-formed: Western Assoc
'35 Wesleys converted
'36 Pub: Narrative surprising conversions, Edwards, following revival; Gospel Worthy, Fuller
'38 Whitefield, Wesley begin open air preaching
'40 Great Awakening, America; Pub: Short account Whitefield
'41 Whitefield, Wesley split
'47 Pub: Humble Attempt, Edwards
'48 Pub: Life Brainerd, Edwards
'24 Founded: Baptist Board
'27 Moravian revival, Herrnhut
'33/34 Re-formed: Western Assoc
'35 Wesleys converted
'36 Pub: Narrative surprising conversions, Edwards, following revival; Gospel Worthy, Fuller
'38 Whitefield, Wesley begin open air preaching
'40 Great Awakening, America; Pub: Short account Whitefield
'41 Whitefield, Wesley split
'47 Pub: Humble Attempt, Edwards
'48 Pub: Life Brainerd, Edwards
'52 Franklin develops lightning rod
1750s '50 Pub: Evangelical Hymns Wallin; '51 Selection Rippon; '52 Catechism BB
1750s '50 Pub: Evangelical Hymns Wallin; '51 Selection Rippon; '52 Catechism BB
'56 Seven years war begins
1760s '60 Pub: Poems, A Steele; '68 Reign of Grace, Booth; '69 1st Baptist Hymn Book Collection, Ash/Evans; Body of Divinity, Gill
'64 Formed: Northampton Assoc
1760s '60 Pub: Poems, A Steele; '68 Reign of Grace, Booth; '69 1st Baptist Hymn Book Collection, Ash/Evans; Body of Divinity, Gill
'64 Formed: Northampton Assoc
'69 Formed: Norfolk & Suffolk Assoc
'70 Strong Arminian Calvinist controversy among Methodists; Formed: New Connexion & Bristol Education Soc
'70 Strong Arminian Calvinist controversy among Methodists; Formed: New Connexion & Bristol Education Soc
'71 Cook sails to Pacific
'73 Boston Tea Party
'76 Declaration of Independence; Sutcliff meets Fuller; Catechism BB (2nd ed)
'78 Wesley's Arminian Magazine begun
'79 Formed: Kent & Sussex Assoc
1780s '81 Pub: Help for Zion's Travellers, Hall; '84 Humble Attempt English ed (Sutcliff)
'76 Declaration of Independence; Sutcliff meets Fuller; Catechism BB (2nd ed)
'78 Wesley's Arminian Magazine begun
'79 Formed: Kent & Sussex Assoc
1780s '81 Pub: Help for Zion's Travellers, Hall; '84 Humble Attempt English ed (Sutcliff)
'83 Treaty of Paris (Britain accepts American independence)
'84 Northampton Assoc prayer for revival
'86 Others take up idea; Pub: Gospel worthy, Fuller (w '81)
'89 Bastille stormed, French Revolution
'90 Rippon's Baptist Register begun
'92 Formed: "BMS" (Thomas Paine Rights of man)
'93 Carey sails for India (Execution Louis XVI)
'95 Death: BB
'84 Northampton Assoc prayer for revival
'86 Others take up idea; Pub: Gospel worthy, Fuller (w '81)
'89 Bastille stormed, French Revolution
'90 Rippon's Baptist Register begun
'92 Formed: "BMS" (Thomas Paine Rights of man)
'93 Carey sails for India (Execution Louis XVI)
'95 Death: BB
'96 Formed: Essex Assoc (Jenner develops vaccine)
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- Howell Harris 1714-1773
- William Romaine 1714-1795
- John Berridge 1716-1793
- William Williams 1717-1791
- David Brainerd 1718-1747
- John Cennick 1718-1755
- Samuel Davies 1723-1761
- Henry Venn 1724-1797
- Thomas Gibbons 1725-1780
- John Newton 1725-1807
- John Fletcher 1729-1785
- William Cowper 1731-1800
- Hannah More 1745-1833
- Thomas Scott 1747-1821
- Richard Cecil 1748-1810
- Thomas Charles 1755-1814
- William Wilberforce 1759-1833
Some Earlier Baptists
Some significant groups and founding dates
- Midland Baptist Association 1655/90
- Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1701
- Danish-Halle Mission 1705
- Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1698 (SSPCK 1709)
- The Holy Club 1725
- Northants & Leicestershire Particular Baptist Association 1764
- The Eclectic Society 1783
- The Clapham Sect 1790 (to 1830)
- Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to the heathen 1792
- London Missionary Society 1795
- Baptist Union 1812
Great introduction - thorough scholarship in popular form
About Me
- Gary Brady
- Welsh pastor [born '59] at Childs Hill Baptist, London ['83ff] husband to Eleri ['88ff]; father to 5 sons [b '89-'01]; 4 daughters-in-law ['09ff]; 9 grandchildren ['14ff] author: several books, many blogs.
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