, The Baptists of Yorkshire The Baptists of North-West England For a letter of thanks from one David Gray to David Crosley, see John Moore, 'The Copies of Some Christian Letters, Written Originally by severall hands, upon divers Occasions', William Farrer Collection MS L1/43, Greater Manchester County Record Office, n. fol. Thereafter Notebook. Letters to and from Crosley are quoted directly from the manuscript rather than from Frederick Overend's selection of seventeen letters, whose transcription is at times faulty, Churches in the 17th and 18th Centuries, pp.53-112, 1912.
, History of the Bethesda Baptist Church, Barnoldswick, Yorks (Cwmavon: L. L. Griffiths, 1893), p. 4; Blomfield, p.78
, The Value of Denominational History, Baptist Quarterly, vol.2, issue.3, pp.100-112, 1924.
DOI : 10.1080/0005576X.1924.11750005
, The Emergence of Hyper-Calvinism in English Nonconformity The Olive Tree, 1967), 152n. 4 Blomfield, pp.1689-1765
, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. fol. 61. See Raymond Brown, The English Baptists of the Eighteenth Century (The Baptist Historical Society, pp.1670-1715, 1986.
, and 'the great and manyfould inconveniences disadvantages and distractions' in which Crosley's departure was supposed to result. Mitchell first mentioned his dealings with Tottlebank in a letter to John Moore, dated 9 October 1693, 'I have had a man at me from beyond Cartmel-sands, since I saw thee, to intreat me to come over & help them, they being in great want of a Minister' (probably Colonel Roger Sawdrey of Broughton Tower) and again on 4, or 4 times from beyond Sands, with a Letter from ye old Gent: Ro: Sawrey'. 11 Tottlebank Church Book Angus Library, Regent's Park College, pp.77-801669, 1694.
, Angus Library and Archive, Regent's Park College, FPC E1, fol. 36r. On this episode, see Anne Dunan-Page, 'Letters and records of the dissenting congregations: David Crosley, Cripplegate and Baptist Church life, Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Britain, pp.1689-1723, 2013.
, 14 The main sources of information on Crosley's life are: Joseph Ivimey, A History of the English Baptists, History of the Baptist Churches in the North of England from 1648 to 1845, pp.95-99
, Baptist Beginnings in the West Ridings Among modern commentators one can cite Our Heritage: The Baptists of Yorkshire, Four Articles by James S. Hardman, published for the Sion Baptist Church (Cloughfold, pp.53-112, 1926.
, The Yorkshire Baptist Association and the Lancashire and Cheshire Baptist Association, 1987.
, The Puritan Samson: The Life of David Crosley, Gospel Standard Trust, pp.1669-1744, 1991.
, Association Life of the Particular Baptists of Norther England, pp.1699-1732, 1991.
, 15 See 'A short Poem on ye Death of ye first-born Son of John Moore. By D.C.', Notebook, n. fol. 16 Samson a Type of Christ On the trope of the mystical marriage in Baptist literature, see Elizabeth ClarkeThe Glorious Lover'': Baptist Literature and the Bride of Christ, A2v. 21 Samson, pp.70-1744, 1669.
, The Triumph of Sovereign Grace, 119. 25 Ibid., p. 125. 26 See for instance A2v. 28 Samson (1796), p. v. 29 Ibid., pp. v-vi. 30 Christian Councels, pp.75-102, 1691.
, The Christian Marriage Explained (London, 1744), F2r. 32 Triumph of Sovereign Grace
, Forty Two Years Pastor of the Baptist Church at Bacup: Also an Appendix 38 See a letter from the notebook of Thomas Jolly, transcribed by Overend, p. 69. 39 Blomfield, quoted p. 328. 35 Christian Councels, K1v. 36 Blomfield 40 Ibid. 41 Triumph of Sovereign Grace, pp.80-75
, James Janeway (1636-1674) and John Flavell (bap. 1630-d. 1691) were Presbyterian ministers, John Bunyan (1628-1688) can be best described as a Congregationalist or open-communion Baptist and Joseph Stennett (1663-1713) was a Seventh-Day Baptist, Samuel Rutherford (c.1600- 1661), Richard Baxter (1615-1691) All have entries in ODNB. 45 Notebook, n. fol. Frederick Overend unfortunately transcribed 'Quakers' for 'Seekers, pp.1522-1571
, Rolling stone' is the expression of B. A. Ramsbottom, The Puritan Samson, p. 3, while an 'erratic' disposition appears with remarkable frequency in accounts of Crosley's career: in Ramsbottom, pp.86-102, 2005.
, writing from Charlottestown, Carolina, after Crosley's excommunication, Cripplegate Church Book, fol. 51v-52r, 54v. On this question, see Murdina D. MacDonald, 'London Calvinistic Baptists 1689-1729: Tensions within a Community Under Toleration', unpublished D, pp.165-171, 1982.
, Picking up a Pin for the Lord. English Particular Baptists from 1688 to the Early Nineteenth Century, pp.145-64, 1992.
, The Rise of Old Dissent Exemplified in the Life of Oliver Heywood (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans), p. 281. 55 Toon, Emergence of Hyper-Calvinism, 152n. 56 MacDonald, p.119
, Ashgate, 2001), p. 35. 58 For an overview of Antinomian controversies in the seventeenth century, pp.15-45
, The Way of True Peace and Unity among the Faithful and Churches of Christ, pp.104-108
, Northamptonshire and The Modern Question: A Turning-Point in Eighteenth- Century Dissent The Dissenters: From the Reformation to the French Revolution The Beginnings of Nonconformity, The Hibbert Lectures, Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society Journal of Theological Studies, vol.6, issue.16, pp.389-96, 1915.