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The Works of Andrew Fuller

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Weight 2.88 kg
Dimensions 29.0 × 22.4 × 6.1 cm
ISBN 9780851519555
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Cloth-bound
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Book
Page Count

1012
Original Pub Date

1841
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Jun 1, 2007

Endorsements

‘Andrew Fuller was perhaps the most judicious and able theological writer that ever belonged to our denomination.’ — JOHN RYLAND JR.

‘The greatest theologian of his century.’ — C. H. SPURGEON

‘His influence on American Baptists was incalculable.’ — A. H. NEWMAN

‘Without a doubt, he was the greatest theologian of the late eighteenth-century transatlantic Baptist community.’ — MICHAEL A. G. HAYKIN

Book Description

This Baptist minister and theologian was a truly outstanding man and one of the most attractive personalities in church history. C.H. Spurgeon called Fuller, ‘The greatest theologian of his century,’ while his close friend, William Carey (1761-1834) expressed the thought of many who were personally acquainted with him, when he said, ‘I loved him.’

The dominant theme of Fuller’s Works is ‘the grace of God in the gospel.’ In his last letter to his friend John Ryland, Jr., Fuller testified: ‘I have preached and written much against the abuse of the doctrine of grace, but that doctrine is all my salvation and all my desire. I have no other hope than from salvation by mere sovereign, efficacious grace through the atonement of my Lord and Saviour’.

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MEMOIR
I 1754 – 1776 Mr Fuller’s Birth… xv
II 1777 – 1783 Change in his Manner of Preach­ing… xxvii
III 1784 – 1792 Labours at Kettering… xxxviii
IV 1793 – 1814 Formation of Baptist Mission… lvi
V 1814, 1815 Journeys into various parts of Eng­land… lxxxii
The Gospel Its Own Witness 3
PART I
The Holy Nature Of The Christian Religion Con­trasted With The Immorality Of Deism 6
PART II
The Harmony Of The Christian Religion Considered As An Evidence Of Its Divinity 28
CONCLUDING ADDRESSES
To Deists 45
To The Jews 47
To Christians 49
The Calvinistic And Socinian Systems Examined And Compared As To Their Moral Tendency 50
Socinianism Indefensible, Containing A Reply To Dr Toulmin And Mr Kentish 110
Reflections On Mr Belsham’s Review Of Mr Wilberforce’s Treatise On Christianity 131
Letters To Mr Vidler On Universal Salvation 133
The Gospel Worthy Of All Acceptation
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PART I
The Subject Shown To Be Important, Stated, And Explained 152
PART II
Arguments To Prove Faith In Christ To Be The Duty Of All Who Hear, Or Have Opportunity To Hear, The Gospel 157
PART III
Objections Answered 168
Concluding Reflections 175
Appendix 179
Defence Of The “Gospel Worthy Of All Acceptation,” In Reply To Mr Button And Philanthropos 191
The Reality And Efficacy Of Divine Grace, By Agnostos 234
Strictures On Sandemanianism, In Twelve Letters To A Friend 256
Dialogues And Letters Between Crispus And Gaius 294
Conversations Between Peter, James, And John 309
Letters on the controversy with the rev a booth 317
Letters Relative To Mr Martin’s Pub­lication On The Duty Of Faith In Christ 325
Antinomianism Contrasted With The Religion Of The Holy Scriptures 334
Exposition Of Passages Relating To The Conversion Of The Jews 497
Exposition Of Certain Prophecies Relating To The Millennium 503
Exposition Of Those Scriptures Which Refer To The Unpardonable Sin 505
Expository Notes On Various Passages 507
Exposition Of Passages Apparently Contradictory 529
Sermons And Sketches 538
Circular Letters 714
Letters On Systematic Divinity 740
Thoughts On Preaching 752
Memoirs Of The Rev Samuel Pearce 760
An Apology For The Late Christian Missions To India, In Three Parts, With An Appendix 796
Essays, Letters, On Ecclesiastical Polity 829
Miscellaneous tracts, essays, let­ters, 863
Reviews 962
Answers To Queries 971
Fugitive Pieces 984

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  1. Joe Connolly –

    Andrew Fuller said: “A persuasion of Christ being both able and willing to save all them that come unto God by him, and consequently to save us, if we so apply, is very different, from a persuasion that we are the children of God, and interested in the blessings of the gospel.” It is the “if we so apply” part that this Christian finds troubling: Does my salvation rest on my ‘applying’ to God for it? The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ tells me that Christ determined to save those whom He loved from all eternity, even though they did not ‘apply’ to Him to do so! We are made willing in the day of His power – we do not make Him willing by ‘applying’. Christ is mighty to save, and He has performed the work for His blood-bought people. Fuller’s theology is inconsistent, and seems to be an apology for the doctrine of particular election and reprobation, as though he were ashamed of these truths.

  2. David J Bissett –

    Andrew Fuller was a dynamic theological, writing and pastor/preacher. I have this huge volume (one of the biggest books I own), and every time I read Andrew Fuller I am refreshed. There is a vividness to his style and a passion in his writings. Highly recommended.

  3. Danny Pass –

    This collection of works of Andrew Fuller is well worth picking up. I am sure that anyone could find something of help in his works, be it pastoral, practical, doctrinal etc. Whilst I don’t follow along with all of Fullers’s doctrine, particularly in the area of the atonement, I falling more in line with the thinking of Abraham Booth for example, I do still wholeheartedly recommend picking up these works of a very orthodox, pastoral, theologian and fine example of a Christian pastor. Speaking from a Reformed Baptist perspective, I very much appreciate banners selling of these works and would love to see more such as Benjamin Keach, Abraham Booth and William Kiffin to name just a few as there is much help to be found in the lives and writings of these men, just as there is to be found in this wonderful works.

  4. Richard C Ross –

    It’s claimed Andrew Fuller was ‘without a doubt, the greatest theologian of the late eighteenth-century transatlantic Baptist community.’ That’s a very narrow field – and an odd way of categorising theologians: do you set up those criteria before lifting a volume off the shelf! William Carey’s testimony says far more: ‘I loved him’.

    This ranking of Fuller (a horrid practice) must be weighed. His Works (the book is enormous, heavy reading!) include a piece on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, the foundational doctrine of all doctrines. Sadly, this contribution is insignificant, not the work of a great theologian. It is little more than a laborious statement of the deity and person-hood of the three Persons of the Godhead. A task satisfactorily achieved thirteen hundred years earlier. Fuller fixates on ‘proof texts’, which prove little (repeating Bible texts is the preferred method of heretics). (No!) There’s nothing here approaching the sublimity of the meditations of John Owen, Thomas Goodwin, Thomas Boston and Jonathan Edwards – let alone the ‘early church Fathers’.

    The ‘Antinomian’ piece, a characterising subject for Fuller, is a strange item, in more than one respect. Fuller is scathing of ‘antinomians’; expressing himself in stinging allegations, but leaves his ‘targets’ largely anonymous. This throws the ink of suspicion, of the most ungodly attitudes and practices, on all who, often unfairly, are treated to the emotive label of ‘Antinomian’. It’s often assumed that John Gill and William Gadsby, etc. were the subjects of Fuller’s lashings. How great an injustice that would be!

    It’s easy to understand why William Carey would say, ‘I loved him’; but I’m far from convinced that Fuller deserves to be ranked (if this is to be done) alongside the names of those who, to most visitors to this website, will be the obvious candidates for such elevated regard. Sadly, we Baptists have produced far too few (any at all?) who could, in any century, be hailed as ‘the greatest theologian’. I wonder why that is.

  5. Richard C Ross –

    Fuller, in disagreement, states antinomianism ‘conceives the imputation of Christ’s righteousness as that by which we are not only treated as righteous but are actually without spot in the sight of God’. He alleges an ‘antinomian’ position implies the impossible: God ‘thinking a character to be different from what he really is’; that if a man believes ‘justification includes full remission of the justified man’s sins’ that man will conclude ‘he needs not daily to pray for forgiveness’. All this on ‘the doctrine of a standing or falling church’. [344] I suggest Fuller’s objections are erroneous.

    The question is: what is ‘really’? Am I ‘treated’ as or am I ‘actually’ righteous ‘in the sight of God’? Does God ‘think’ of me differently from what I ‘actually’ am ‘in his sight’? The case is the believer is united to Christ, by insition, implantation: one with him, on the instant faith is placed in him. That is ‘really’! On that basis, I’m ‘treated’ as righteous because, being in Christ, I am objectively, passively and definitively ‘actually’ (‘existing in fact’) righteous; ‘without spot’, as he is without spot. That is my justification, on the basis of my union with Christ as ‘in fact’ my replete sanctification. Do I still need to ask for forgiveness daily? Emphatically, yes! How so? Well, because there’s a distinction to be made Fuller ignores: between ‘actual’ progressive sanctification and ‘actual’ definitive, replete sanctification. My eternal standing is secure in Christ; I have ‘in fact’ been definitively, irreversibly, irrevocably, immutably, as justice demands, declared, ‘in God’s sight’, objectively innocent of all guilt and in Christ as ‘actually’ righteous as Christ; for, through my union with him, he is my righteousness; personally ‘in fact’ my definitive, objective, replete sanctification. Subjectively and actively my daily performance, as a person secure in Christ, falls far below what I would wish it to be, strive, in gratitude, to please him as I might; and infinitely far below what he would wish it to be; my progressive sanctification is threadbare. ‘Wretched man that I am! There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.’

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