John spilsbury biography
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John Spilsbury (Baptist minister)
English Particular Baptist minister (1593 – c. 1668)
John Spilsbury (1593 – c.
John spilsbury biography
1668) was an English cobbler and Particular Baptist minister who set up a Calvinist Baptist church in London in 1638.
Biography
John Spilsbury was born in 1593 in London[1] He was a cobbler at Aldersgate.
He was a member of a London Separatist church, which he left in 1633, because of his position on believer's baptism.[2]
Ministry
In 1638, Spilsbury founded the first particular Baptist church in London.[3][4]
Scholarly work
From Spilsbury's pastoral doctrine, two issues, expansively developed, received forceful treatment: the constitution of a Christian congregation and the "invincible efficacy" of Christ's work for His people.
In 1643, Spilsbury published A Treatise Concerning the Lawfull Subject of Baptisme, which he reissued in a second edition in 1652, "Corrected and enlarged by the Author."
In 1646 he