Protestant Preachers & Teachers
Famous or well known protestant preachers, teachers and bible scholars, all of whom believed in election and predestination and all the doctrines of grace (also known as Calvinism).
John Gill Memoir
John Gill Memoir
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John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
(also known as John Wiclif)
1328-1384
by Williston Walker
The fourteenth century was an epoch of great changes. Mediaeval feudalism, with its strongly divisive spirit, was giving way to a new national feeling. A real sense of common unity of interest was beginning to be felt by the peoples of France, of England, and in a less degree of Germany. A new power was therefore rising, that of national life. It speedily entered into conflict with the… Continue reading
John Huss
John Huss
John Huss lived from 1369-1415. He was a Bohemian reformer. Huss was ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church in 1401, after receiving the bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Prague. He became a powerful preacher of Roman doctrine, until he began to translate some of the sermons of John Wycliffe into the Bohemian language. These sermons moved him to cry out for reform in the Church,… Continue reading
Charles Spurgeon
Charles H. Spurgeon
1834-1892
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was the descendant of several generations of Independent ministers/ He was born at Kelvedon, Essex, and became a Baptist in 1850. In the same year he preached his first sermon, and in 1852 he was appointed paster of the Baptist congregation at Waterbeach. In 1854 he went to Southwark, where his sermons drew such crowds that a new church, the Metropolitan Tabernacle in Newington Causeway, had to be… Continue reading
John Gill and His Successors
John Gill and His Successors
The witness and teaching of Dr John Gill (1697-1771) so impressed his friends Augustus Toplady and James Hervey that they maintained his work would still be of great importance to future generations. This also became the conviction of John Rippon (1750-1836) and Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), Gill’s more well-known successors to his pastorate, but it was also the testimony of those who served for shorter periods at Carter Lane such as John Martin, Benjamin… Continue reading