Particular Pilgrims

Feb 26 2025 191 ep. 11 mins 19
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Particular Pilgrims is hosted by Ron Miller, Pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Clarksville, Tennesse. This resource provides short stories from Particular Baptist history. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org.

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John Collett Ryland: A Modest Plea for Free Communion

Feb 26 2025 10 mins  
Having seen how John Collett Ryland’s wide friendships likely influenced his change of views regarding church communion, let us now examine his only writing on the subject. This came in a 3 page broadsheet-style publication in very small type dated June 15, 1772 and signed Pacificus. It was entitled “A Modest Plea for Free Communion at the Lord’s Table; between true believers

John Collett Ryland on Open Communion

Feb 19 2025 9 mins  
We now turn to John Collett Ryland’s espousal of what he called free communion, also known as open or mixed communion. His position was familiar to his fellow Baptists. For example, John Rippon states, “it is well known that he was what is commonly called, a mixed communion Baptist; that is, a Baptist admitting other good men to the Lord’s table, though in his opinion they ar

Open and Closed Communion: Kinghorn & Concluding Remarks

Feb 12 2025 10 mins  
We continue with our survey of the open and closed communion debate. In 1816, the year following Robert Hall Jr.’s “Terms of communion” came out, Joseph Kinghorn answered Hall with “Baptism, A Term of Communion at the Lord’s Supper”. Kinghorn was the pastor of Norwich Baptist Church and a former pupil of Hall’s at the Bristol Baptist Academy.For more information, visi

Open and Closed Communion: Booth and Hall Jr.

Feb 05 2025 9 mins  
An open communion answer to Booth finally came in the formidable writing of Robert Hall Jr. In the early 1800s he was perhaps the greatest orator in England, possessed a genius mind, and liked to practice radical politics. In 1815 he produced “Terms of Communion”, a direct challenge to Booth’s Apology. For more information about CBTS, visit CBTSeminary.org

Open and Closed Communion: Bunyan and Kiffen

Jan 29 2025 10 mins  
We continue with our survey of the open and closed communion debate in preparation for a later review of John Collett Ryland’s principles and practices related to it. Next I’ll review the interactions of John Bunyan and William Kiffen. For more information about CBTS, visit CBTSeminary.org

Open and Closed Communion

Jan 22 2025 11 mins  
Before I finish the study of John Collett Ryland’s interesting life, I want to explore three topics in which he played a significant or exemplary role. One of these is his view of who was qualified to partake of the Lord’s Supper. Another is his version of High Calvinism and his interactions with William Carey. And finally, there is his important place in 18th-century English e

John Collett Ryland Pt. 2

Jan 08 2025 11 mins  
"Ryland was a friend to everyone he thought to be a true believer. So he was personal friends with like-minded men such as John Gill and John Brine. But he was also friends with those of a different kind of Calvinism such as Andrew Gifford, Robert Hall Sr., and John Rippon." For more information about CBTSeminary, visit CBTSeminary.org

John Collett Ryland

Jan 01 2025 10 mins  
The life and ministry of John Collett Ryland will transition our studies away from hyper-Calvinism among Particular Baptists. He is an appropriate figure for this move because he wasclose friends with a number of orthodox men with varied views on Calvinism.For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

Strict Baptist Chapels

Dec 19 2024 11 mins  
Hyper-Calvinism in English Baptist circles in the 19th century grew and changed in significant ways. But rather than continue on into the 19th century too far, I want to take another approach to complete, for now, our look at hyper-Calvinism in Baptist circles. Let me point you to a 5 volume study entitled “The Strict Baptist Chapels of England.” For more information, visit CB

William Gadsby Pt.3

Dec 11 2024 11 mins  
William Gadsby was much more than a preacher to his Manchester congregation. He also wrote for them, which is surprising, given his poor education. He produced hymns for their worship, tracts for the controversies of the day, a magazine to edify them during the month, a catechism for their children, and sermons to read.