Early History of the Independent Church at Rothwell, Alias Rowell, in Northamptonshire e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In addition to this it appeared that, compared with others, our church was a very ancient one, and that there was a time in the history of dissent in the county when the church at Rowell was almost its sole representative. (there were two General Baptist Churches in Northamptonshire during the Protectorate, one at Peterborough and the other at Ravens thorpe 3 but the information concerning them is very slight. See Taylor's History of the General Baptists, 1818, and Wood's Condensed History of the General Baptists, It appeared also that the first three ministers of the church at Rowell were in many respects notable and worthy men, the last of them especially being not more distinguished by the greatness of his labours, than by the intensity of the persecutions with which he was assailed. These then were the circumstances and inducements which led to the production of the present history of the church at Rowell from its commencement to 1714.