Issue 29 - 05/05/2007

 

Welcome to the latest edition of Kevin's Outpost. Yes, it's late again ~ so much for the plan of having issues out fortnightly. I will continue to try and achieve that target, and one day I might just be able to do so. I have been incredibly busy for the last several months, which is the reason I haven't been able to get an issue together for a while. Being busy has also kept me from adding further content to the web site, though I have moved a substantial amount of my family history-history site over to this site now as well.

By moving my 'Kevin's Family - Online History Site' over to here as well, I'm hoping to have a lot more content available via my site here, especially as relates to myself and my family background. There is a whole heap or additional information and content available at the history site, much of which may provide useful background to church history, etc.  More on Kevin's Family - Online History Site later on in the issue.

I have continued to collect new content for the site and if I ever manage to get it all online you will find a whole heap of stuff not offered anywhere else on the web (at least from what I've seen of it anyway). So, keep a look out for all of the new content as it makes its way onto the site ~ it will be mentioned here as it becomes available.

Enjoy this latest edition.

 

CONTENTS:

 

FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS:
John Foxe

"When one recollects that until the appearance of the Pilgrim's Progress the common people had almost no other reading matter except the Bible and Fox's Book of Martyrs, we can understand the deep impression that this book produced; and how it served to mold the national character. Those who could read for themselves learned the full details of all the atrocities performed on the Protestant reformers; the illiterate could see the rude illustrations of the various instruments of torture, the rack, the gridiron, the boiling oil, and then the holy ones breathing out their souls amid the flames. Take a people just awakening to a new intellectual and religious life; let several generations of them, from childhood to old age, pore over such a book, and its stories become traditions as individual and almost as potent as songs and customs on a nation's life."

Douglas Campbell,
"The Puritan in Holland, England, and America"

Visit the Book at:
http://www.particularbaptist.com/library/martyrs_foxe_contents.html

 

ADDITIONAL AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MATERIAL:

It may seem strange for an Australian, but I am something of an American Civil War buff. I'm no expert and I doubt very much that I would ever attend a re-enactment of some great battle, but the history of the American Civil War is an interest of mine. I have collected quite a bit of useful material on the civil war and some of the resources I have collected will eventually be available on the site.

Visit the American Civil War Page at:
http://particularbaptist.com/matthewshistory/library/uscivilwar.html 

 

KEVIN'S FAMILY - HISTORY SITE:

The 'Kevin's Family - Online History Site' is in the process of being moved over to this site. There is a wealth of information available at the site, with quite a lot of historical content becoming available there. There is Australian history, American history, English history, etc. So why not have a look at the site ~ not all of the family photos are available just yet, but they will be eventually.

Visit the site at:
http://particularbaptist.com/matthewshistory/index.html

 

A MEMOIR OF THE REV. HENRY MARTYN:
John Sargent

BEFORE the reader proceeds to the perusal of the following Memoir, it may be proper to inform him, that the first and second parts of it have been chiefly selected from various journals, which Mr. Martyn was in the habit of keeping for his own private use, and which, beginning with the year 1803, comprehend a period of eight years. The third part is extracted from an account which he drew up of his visit to Shiraz in Persia; in which some occasional observations on the state of his own mind and feelings are interspersed. It is termed 'a Narrative' by Mr. Martyn: and it was probably his intention to have enlarged it, for the use of the public, had his life been spared, or perhaps to have communicated it, nearly in its original shape, to his intimate friends. From the style and manner of it, at least, it may be presumed not to have been exclusively intended, as the journals above-mentioned evidently were, for his own recollection and benefit. The greater part of the last-mentioned papers were upon the point of being destroyed by the writer on his undertaking his voyage to Persia; but, happily, he was prevailed upon by the Rev. D. Corrie to confide them under a seal to his care, and by him they were transmitted from India to the Rev. C. Simeon and J. Thornton, Esq., Mr. Martyn's executors, in the year 1814. 'The Narrative,' which was sent by Mr. Morier from Constantinople, came into their hands in the following year. Such are the materials from which I have compiled the present memoir,— throughout the whole of which I have endeavoured, as much as possible, to let Mr, Martyn speak for himself, and thus to exhibit a genuine picture of his own mind.

Visit the Book at:
http://particularbaptist.com/library/memoir_henrymartyn_contents.html

NOTE: In Early Stages of Being Added to the Site
 

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A MEMOIR OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ANDREW FULLER:
Thomas Ekins Fuller

The following quote comes from the first chapter of the memoir:

' "I was not then aware," he says, " that any poor sinner had a warrant to believe in Christ for the salvation of his soul, but supposed there must be some kind of qualification to entitle him to do it; yet I was aware I had no qualification. On a review of my resolution at that time, it seems to resemble that of Esther, who went into the king's presence contrary to the law, and at the hazard of her life. Like her, I seemed reduced to extremities, impelled by dire necessity to run all hazards, even though I should perish in the attempt. Yet it was not altogether from a dread of wrath that I fled to this refuge; for I well remember that I felt something attracting in the Saviour. I must, I will - yes, I will trust my soul, my sinful, lost soul, in His hands. If I perish, I perish. However it was, I was determined to cast myself upon Christ, thinking, peradventure, He would save my soul; and, if not, I could but be lost. In this way I continued above an hour, weeping and supplicating mercy for the Saviour's sake (my soul hath it still in remembrance, and is humbled in me); and as the eye of the mind was more and more fixed upon Him, my guilt and fears were gradually and insensibly removed.

"I now found rest for my troubled soul; and I reckon that I should have found it sooner if I had not entertained the notion of my having no warrant to come to Christ without some previous qualification. This notion was a bar that kept me back for a time, though through Divine drawings I was enabled to overleap it. As near as I can remember in the early part of these exercises, when I subscribed to the justice of God in my condemnation, and thought of the Saviour of sinners, I had then relinquished every false confidence, believed my help to be only in Him, and approved of salvation by grace alone through His death; and if at that time I had known that any poor sinner might warrantably hare trusted in Him for salvation, I conceive I should have done so, and have found rest to my soul sooner than I did. I mention this, because it may be the case with others, who may be kept in darkness and despondency by erroneous views of the Gospel much longer than I was.

"I think also I did repent of my sins in the early part of these exercises, and before I thought that Christ would accept and save my soul. I conceive that justifying God in my condemnation, and approving the way of salvation by Jesus Christ, necessarily included it; but yet I did not think at the time that this was repentance, or anything truly good. Indeed, I thought nothing about the exercises of my own mind, but merely of my guilty and lost condition, and whether there were any hope of escape for me. But, having found rest for my soul in the cross of Christ, I was now conscious of my being the subject of repentance, faith, and love. When I thought of my past life, I abhorred myself, and repented as in dust and ashes; and when I thought of the Gospel way of salvation, I drank it in, as cold water is imbibed by a thirsty soul. My heart felt one with Christ, and dead to every other object around me. I had thought I had found the joys of salvation heretofore; but now I knew I had found them, and was conscious that I had 'passed from death unto life.' Yet even now my mind was not so engaged in reflecting upon my own feelings as. upon the objects which occasioned them.

"From this time, my former wicked courses were forsaken. I had no manner of desire after them. They lost their influence upon me. To those evils, a glance at which before would have set my passions in a flame, I now felt no inclination. 'My soul,' said I, with joy and triumph, 'is as a weaned child!' I now knew experimentally what it was to be dead to the world by the cross of Christ, and to feel an habitual determination to devote my future life to God my Saviour, and from this time considered the vows of God as upon me."'

Visit the Book at:
http://particularbaptist.com/library/memoir_fuller_contents.html

NOTE: This is a work in progress. This work should be completed in the next few weeks.

 

KEVIN'S WILDERNESS JOURNEYS:

There has been some major progress in the migration of this site from previous hosts. Most of the photos associated with Kevin's Wilderness Journeys are now all located in the same location and easily accessible for all. If you are into wilderness, especially Australian wilderness, why not have a look at Kevin's Wilderness Journeys?

Visit Kevin's Wilderness Journeys at:
http://kevinswilderness.com/index.html

 

A MEMORIAL OF 1843: DISRUPTION WORTHIES:

'A Memorial of 1843: Disruption Worthies' contains a number of biographical sketches of those men who left the Established Church of Scotland in 1843 at the time of the Disruption. These 'worthies' were the heroes of the church, refusing to sacrifice their spiritual freedom by remaining in a church that was being dictated to by the State. Below is a quote from the introduction of the book:

'Separation from the State then became the duty, the urgent and paramount duty, of all who were not prepared to accept that condition and pay that price. Those who remained established at the Disruption of 1843, accepted the condition, and consented to pay the price; and they still enjoy the State favour, and the State endowments, and enjoy them on the condition which they accepted, and at the price which they paid. Those who rejected the condition, and refused to pay the price, of Establishment, seceded, surrendered the advantages of State connection, and formed the Free Church of Scotland. Continued conformity involved the sacrifice of conscience; and that sacrifice being in regard to matters of momentous and sacred principle, Nonconformity became an imperative duty.'

Visit the Book at:
http://www.particularbaptist.com/library/memorial1843_contents.html

NOTE: This is a work in progress. This work should be finished in the next few weeks.

 

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