Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire: with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county.Coleman, Thomas
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Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire: with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county.
Coleman, Thomas
Clergy -- England -- Northamptonshire; Independent churches -- England -- Northamptonshire; Puritans -- England -- Northamptonshire
In the history of this Church, we cannot but observe the very
interesting fact which it presents, of 75 years having been already
filled up by the ministry of the father and the son (and we trust that
there is a probability of years of useful service being added in the
case of the latter to the period that has passed), during which a
Christian society and a numerous congregation have been preserved in
peace, with the interests of vital religion advancing. While such a fact
speaks well for the spirit and continued improvement of the people, it
says much also for the Christian temper, the consummate prudence, the
able and successful labours of the pastors, while to God they would
unitedly ascribe all the glory.
At Warkton, about two miles from Kettering, occasional services are
held. In this village Mr. Thomas Stone, another of the Puritan
ministers, was rector--"a person of good learning," it is said, "and
great worth: a zealous Puritan, and a member of the classes." "He died,
an old man and full of days, in the year 1617." Bridges observes, "that
he was inducted into the living of Warkton in the year 1553." If this
statement be correct, he must have been rector of that place 64 years.
He was a learned man, of great uprightness, and uncommon plainness of
spirit, minding not the things of this world; yet, according to Wood, "a
stiff Nonconformist, and a zealous Presbyterian." At Geddington, the
birth-place of Mr. Maidwell, the first pastor of the Independent Church
at Kettering, there is a Chapel regularly supplied on the Sabbath
evenings. This place of worship was provided by Mr. Nathaniel Collis,
for many years a respectable bookseller in Kettering, and a deacon of
the Church--Geddington was his native place.
Services are also conducted on Sabbath evenings at Great Oakley, five
miles from Kettering; occasionally at Orlingbury, five miles in another
direction; also at Thorpe and Loddington.
BROUGHTON.
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