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Waiting on the Spirit of Promise
Brian L. Hanson
Michael A. G. Haykin
其他書名
The Life and Theology of Suffering of Abraham Cheare
出版
Wipf and Stock Publishers
, 2014-03-18
主題
Religion / Christian Church / History
Religion / Christian Theology / History
Religion / Christian Theology / General
ISBN
1625642377
9781625642370
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_mcNBQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Waiting on the Spirit of Promise
is a study of the life and ministry of Abraham Cheare (1626-1668), containing selections from Cheare's works, and rescuing an important seventeenth-century Baptist from obscurity. Cheare has been overshadowed by other more celebrated Baptist contemporaries, but as the pastor of the Particular Baptist work in Plymouth, Devon, Cheare played a key role in the advance of the Baptist cause in the West Country in the 1650s. His
Sighs for Sion
is an excellent illustration of early Baptist piety. With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Cheare, like many other Dissenters, suffered arrest for his refusal to give up preaching. Cheare's prison writings reveal both a sturdy faith in God and a deep-seated piety. Despite the fact that he was incarcerated in a series of "nasty prisons," Cheare used this time of suffering to deepen his walk with God and so provide a model for his congregation of Christian integrity and joy in the midst of trial. To the very end of his life, Cheare eagerly awaited further outpourings of the Spirit of Promise upon the Church and looked forward to that day when his Lord Jesus would make all things right.