Please click on the following links to read these short Christian biographies of:
Augustus Montague Toplady & His Ministry – Minister, Preacher, Poet and Hymn writer
Cotton Mather – The Puritan, Congregational Minister and Author
John Bradford (1510-1555) – Martyr, Burnt at the Stake in Queen Mary’s Reign, on 15th July 1555
Robert Raikes & The Sunday School Movement
Samuel Rutherford – More than a Man of Letters
William Williams – Hymnwriter
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Of whom the world was not worthy …..
Concerning those who lived in what we may describe as ‘Bible times’, the Apostle Paul describes many of these faithful saints in the very familiar passage in Hebrews 11. He says of them “Of whom the world was not worthy.” So it also was for some of the less well-known, and as the apostle seems to indicate in the narrative, their names of some are not recorded, but what is mentioned in this great chapter is clear enough to indicate to us their faithfulness, and stedfastness.
“Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.” Hebrews 11:35-38
Some of those whose life account we make available here may well have had cruel mocking, even bonds and imprisonments, they may well have been destitute and often afflicted, but at least we will know their names, and we will be able to learn something of how they were used of God. Thus we lay before you the lives of these faithful souls, and pray that the illustrations of their effectiveness of the service they gave will be a help and inspiration to us all.