13218nam a2200457I 4500008437840MiAaHDL20250301000000.0m d cr bn ---auaua750331s1877 pau 000 0 eng d0524042411 (microfiche)sdr-hvd.990057898620203941sdr-nnc2714831sdr-coo838455sdr-umn9948801220001701(MH)005789862HVD01-Aleph(MH)Aleph005789862(OCoLC)1244913DLMDLMHLSn-us-paBX6249.P5S67BX6249.P5S67BX6249Spencer, David,1834-1924.The early Baptists of Philadelphia /By Rev. David Spencer.Philadelphia :W. Syckelmoore,1877.203 p. :ill. ;22 cm.XIX. Conclusion -- Prominent incidents and persons -- Reverend Jacob Griggs -- Reverend William E. Ashton -- Reverend William Wilson -- Reverend J.C Murphy -- Defection of William White -- Reverend James McLaughlin -- The fourth Baptist church constituted -- Meeting house erected -- The latter day luminary -- First theological seminary -- Graduating class -- Columbian university -- A few honored names -- J.H Kennard -- Daniel Dodge -- William J. Brantley -- Rufus Babcock -- K.A Fleischman -- George B. Ide -- James M. Linnard -- Joseph Taylor -- Wilson Jewell -- David Jayne -- Franklin Lee -- W.H Richards -- Thomas Wattson -- J.P Sherbone.Growth of the city westward -- Sansom Street Baptist Church organized -- Dr. Staughton settled as pastor -- Collections at the Lord's Supper -- Rever John E. Peckworth -- Reverend David Jones, Jr. at Frankford -- Reverend Henry Holcombe, D.D -- Pastor First Baptist church, Philadelphia -- Missionary spirit -- A Princeton student baptized -- A scriptural right to baptize -- Reverend John King -- Baptist orphan society -- Emporium of Baptist influence -- First American missionaries -- Philadelphia Baptist society for foreign missions -- A consecrated spot -- Triennial convention -- Names of delegates -- Death of Dr. Samuel Jones -- Sunday schools organized -- History of the First Church Bible School -- Historical address by Judge HannaFirst Baptist meeting house enlarged -- Four sermons on Sunday -- Horatio Gates Jones, D.D -- Churches lighted by candles -- Heated by wood stoves -- Blank forms of letters of dismission -- First collection for foreign mission -- Number of members necessary to form a church -- Valid baptism -- Christian missions -- Reverend John Rutter excluded -- Invalid marriages -- XVIII. 1807-1810 -- City pastors residing in the country -- Frankford Baptist Church constituted -- Meeting house erected -- Centennial anniversary of Philadelphia association -- Chronological list of churches -- Second Baptist church incorporated -- John P. Crozer -- Wayside efforts -- Third Baptist Church constituted -- Imposition of hands -- Fifteen hundred dollars and parsonage -- Close supervision and strict discipline -- Prohibition of society funerals -- First African Baptist church constituted -- House for Baptismal occasions -- Missionary society extending its labors -- XVIII. 1811-1815 --^Reverend Thomas Ustick -- A second church -- Association chartered -- Churches dropped -- Chains across the street -- Death of George Washington -- Reverend Thomas Fleeson at Roxborough -- A forward movement -- A feeble folk -- Missionary efforts -- XVI. 1801-1806 -- A new era of growth -- Measures toward an African church -- Letters from Carey -- A missionary spirit -- Baptisms on a week day -- Shade trees at the Baptisterion -- Joseph S. Walter -- Holy Spirit poured out -- Second Baptist church constituted -- Moderator should be a member -- A Masonic lodge room used for religious worship -- The second Baptist meeting house dedicated -- Death of Thomas Ustick -- Blockley Baptist Church constituted -- Build a meeting house -- Singing led by precentors -- Christians in the choirs -- Reverend William White, Pastor of the second church -- Licentiates' names -- Reverend William Staughion in Philadelphia -- Crowded congregation -- New meeting house at Lower Dublin --^-- XIV. 1783-1790 -- Scruples concerning laying on of hands -- Keep the ordinances as delivered -- Montgomery county formed -- President Manning and Philadelphia Baptists -- The first doctor of divinity -- Lord's supper, and scattered members -- Loyalty to the colonies -- Pennypack church incorporated -- The temperance question -- A Baptist hymn book -- Reverend Samuel Jones, a doctor of divinity -- Singing avoided -- Authorized tunes -- Reverend William Rogers appointed to a professorship -- Plain furniture -- Roxborough church organized -- Abolition of slavery -- Old meeting house at Roxborough -- XV. 1791-1800 -- Reverend Curtis Gilbert -- Chestnut Hill -- Reverend Thomas Ainger -- Death of President Manning -- Sunday school society -- Regulation of youth -- Destitute orphans -- Notification of members received -- Suppression of plays -- Recommendation or dismission -- Joseph Keen -- Home missions -- Death of Morgan Edwards -- Reverend William White ordained -- Yellow fever --^First hunded years -- XIII. 1781-1782 -- Apostasy of Winchester -- Protest -- Council called -- Advice of association -- Lawsuit for property -- Excommunicated -- Address from the church -- Winchester's death -- Baptisterion -- Reverend James Manning -- Issues of the war -- Messenger association in session -- Met at sunrise -- Success of American arms -- Statistics of churches -- Out of the ordeal -- Petition the general Reverend Thomas Ustick settled -- Sketch of Ustick -- Circulation of the Bible -- Brown University commended -- Honeywell school fund -- John Honeywell's willCommittee of grievances in the association -- Meeting in Carpenters' Hall -- Address by Reverend James Manning -- Massachusetts delegates unfriendly -- Baptists and soul liberty -- Prejudiced opinion of John Adams -- Committee determined -- Printed documents -- Fasting and prayer -- Reverend William Rogers resigned -- XII. 1776-1780 -- The ever memorable 1776 -- Declaration of Independence -- Association at Scotch Plains -- Days of humiliation -- Independence Hall -- Baptists on the side of the colonies -- Reverend William Rogers a chaplain -- Ingenuity of Burgiss Allison -- Reverend John Pitman -- Patriotism of the Pennypack church -- No association in 1777 -- Philadelphia church in distress -- Reverend James Manning -- Diary of Manning in Philadelphia -- Price of board -- Letter to Reverends Still and Miller -- Reverend John Gano called -- Windows filled with boards -- Gano's reply -- Call repeated -- Elhanan Winchester chosen -- An unfortunate move -- Reverend David Jones --^Rhode Island college and Morgan Edwards -- Death of Reverend Benjamin Griffith -- First commencement of Brown university -- Minutes first printed -- Northern liberties church -- Persecutions -- Philadelphia association to the rescue -- Sufferings at Ashfield -- New meeting house at Pennypack -- XI. 1771-1775 -- A decade of trial -- Reverend Morgan Edwards resigns -- Reverend Samuel Stillman chosen pastor -- Did not accept -- Northern Liberty Church in the association -- The missionary spirit -- Morgan Edwards an evangelist -- Reverend William Rogers ordained -- Last sermon of the Reverend Isaac Eaton -- Divine blessing -- John Levering -- Laying on of hands -- Reverend Ebenezer Kinnersley resigns his professorship -- Death and burial of Mr. Kinnersley -- Memorial window -- Persecutions of Baptists -- Association meeting twice a year -- Academy at Pennypack -- Burgiss Allison -- Carpenters' Hall -- Continental Congress -- Reverend Isaac Backus -- Diary of Backus in Philadelphia --^IX. 761-1763 -- A new era -- Reverend Morgan Edwards arrives -- Dr. G. Weed's self esteem -- Excommunicated for drunkenness -- Supervision of the membership -- Morgan Edwards prominent -- Association's letter to England -- Need of books -- First table of statistics -- Brown University projected -- Morgan Edwards to projector -- Educational growth -- New meeting house in Philadelphia -- St. Michael's Lutheran Church -- Sound of the organ -- Resignation of Reverend P.P Vanhorn -- The city's seal to ordination certificates -- George Eaton -- Samuel Jones baptized -- Licensed to preach -- Copy of the license -- Ordained -- Place of worship occupied -- Mr. Whitefield's church -- Samuel Jones Pastor and Pennypack -- A prerogative of the ministry -- Wearing a master's gown -- Reverend Stephen Watts -- Ordination of deacons -- D. 1764-1770 -- The sisters allowed to vote -- Ruling elders -- Fraternal association correspondence -- Warren association organized -- Letter from Philadelphia --^Reverend John Gano -- Reverend Samuel Stillman -- Various occurrencesDeath of Rev Joseph Wood == Trouble with the Pennypack property -- Death of Rev. Joseph Eaton == Rev Isaac Eaton and Hopewell academy -- Moderator's name first given -- Nathaniel Jenkins -- VIII. 1751-1760 -- Feeble churches supplied with preaching == Ministers ordained at the association -- Other associations organized -- George Eaton called to the ministry -- Ebenezer Kinnersley, a professor in the university of Pennsylvania -- New Britain church constituted -- John Davis ordained -- The pioneer Baptists of Maryland -- Ordination certificate -- First Latin grammar school -- Hopewell Academy -- Association's jubilee -- Talents developed -- Ministerial supply -- Doctrinal sermon -- Meager records -- First church pulpit supplied -- Application to England for a pastor -- Death of Reverend Jenkin Jones -- His legacy -- Dissenting ministers permitted to solemnize marriage -- Mount Moriah ceremony -- Reverend Morgan Edwards invited from England -- First fruit of the Hopewell school --^Joseph Eaton ordained -- Chruch letters not granted -- Laying on of hands in ordination -- Fraternal corrispondee with London -- The first circular letter -- VI. 1731-1740 -- The Baptist meeting-house built -- Assistance needed -- Baptists and the Romanists -- Chruch of England demands the Baptist property -- Fail to get it -- William Kinnersley died -- Samuel Jones and Samuel Stillman -- Rev. Jenkin Jones -- Various questions -- Association records -- Catechetical instructions -- Fifty-six baptized -- Denominational groth slow -- VII. 1741 -- 1750 -- Philadelphia conession of faith -- Subjects of articles -- Ebenezer Kinnersley ordained == Doubts on Whitefild's preaching -- Electricity -- Joseph Eaton's defection -- First Baptist church reconstituted -- Groundless questions -- Constituent members -- The Southampton baptis church -- George Eaton and Peter P. Vanhorn == Abraham Levering -- First records of the association -- Benjamin Griffith == Power and duty of an association --^Meetings in a brewhouse -- Baptists and Episcopalians -- Christ church -- III. 1701-1710 -- The Seventh -day Baptists -- An Emigrant church -- Laying on of hands and singing -- Death of Rev. John Watts -- First Baptist church and the Keithians -- A constant supply of ministers -- The philedelphia Baptist association -- More Ministers -- IV. 1711-1720 -- Dissensions -- Ruling elders -- The Montgomery church organized -- William Thomas -- Tunkers in Germantown -- V. 1721-1730 -- Death of Samuel Jones and Abel Morgan -- An educated ministry -- Thomas Hollis -- Harvard college -- Order in church services -- Careful reception of ministers from abroad -- The fourth commandment -- Marrying an unbeliever -- Forfeit of office and membership in the church -- Letters of churches to the association -- Closed doors -- Tunker church organized -- George Eaglesfield -- Benjamin Griffith Ordained -- Reception of Members from Great Britian -- Rev Jenkins jones at Pennypack -- Willaim Kennersley --^I. 1684-1690 -- Philadelphia founded -- Religious liberty -- Welsh parentage -- Origin of baptistis -- John Holme purchases land -- Rev. Thomas Dungan -- Cold spring church -- Bucks and Philadelphia counties -- William Penn and Thomas Dungan -- An Englaish Baptist -- A celebrated spring -- Persecution in Wales -- Settlement at Pennypack -- An Indian deed -- Meaning of Pennypack -- Rev. Elias Keach -- The first baptism -- Lower Dublin church constituted -- Change of calendar -- Quarterly meetings -- Conference meetings -- Decease of Rev. Thomas Dungan -- Rev John Watts -- II. 1691-1700 -- Keithians -- Baptists and liberty of conscience -- Rev. Thomas Killingsworth -- William Davis -- Preaching at Cold Spring -- A catechism and confession of faith -- Quaker Moragan Edwards and Baptist history -- First Baptist church of Philadelphia organized -- Prominence of John Holme -- Rev Hanserd Knollys -- Barbadoes storehouse 00- Baptist and Presbyterians -- Separation --^Mode of access: Internet.BaptistsPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistory.HistoryfastOnline version:Spencer, David.Early Baptists of Philadelphia.Philadelphia : W. 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