Joy Unspeakable and Full of Glory
Subtitle: the piety of Samuel and Sarah Pearce
Publisher: Joshua Press,
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Kitchener, Ontario
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781894400480
Description: Samuel Pearce, a young eighteenth-century English pastor, was described by his friend and biographer Andrew Fuller as "another Brainerd" -- a reference to the celebrated American missionary David Brainerd. Pastor of Cannon Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, England, during the tumultuous 1790s, and a close friend of pioneer missionary William Carey, Pearce played a key role in the early days of the Baptist Missionary Society. In the providence of God he died at just thirty-three, but in the eyes of many of his contemporaries, he seemed to have condensed a lifetime of holy and joyful ministry into a single decade. His marriage to Sarah Hopkins was one of deep love and mutual respect, and she joined him in his passion for the salvation of sinners, both at home and abroad. Through excerpts from Samuel and Sarah's letters and writings, we are given a window into their rich spiritual life and living piety. - Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Eifion Evans; title: Joy unspeakable and full of glory : the piety of Samuel and Sarah Pearce; title: Chronology; title: Samuel Pearce : selections from his letters and writings; title: Selected letters of Sarah Pearce; title: Annotated bibliography; title: Reading spiritual classics