The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller, vol. 1: Memoirs, Sermons, ETC

by Andrew Fuller

Publisher:

Sprinkle

, 1988

Overview

This first volume contains Fuller’s biography as written by his son, Andrew Gunton Fuller. It is supplemented by excerpts from Fuller’s diaries and letters, followed by ninety-two sermons and forty-eight expositions on various scriptures. It finishes with Fuller’s views on preaching and sermon construction.

Contents

Top Highlights

“In what sense then do we walk by faith, and not by sight? I answer in general, Walking by faith is a going forward in the ways of godliness, as influenced, not by sensible, but by invisible objects—objects of the reality of which we have no evidence but the testimony of God. But perhaps faith may be considered as opposed to sight more particularly in three senses; namely, to corporal sight, to the discoveries of mere reason, and to ultimate vision.” (Page 123)

“The only life, therefore, proper for a fallen creature in our world, is a life of faith—to be constantly sensible of our dependence upon God, continually going to him, and receiving all from him, for the life that now is and that which is to come.” (Page 117)

“As stated above, Fuller believed an acceptance of the doctrine of total depravity implied the rest of the Calvinistic doctrines.” (Page ix)

“I saw those whom I thought to be godly men, both among Arminians and high, or, as I now accounted them, hyper Calvinists. I perceived that men’s characters were not always formed by their avowed principles; that we may hold a sound faith without its having such hold of us as to form our spirit and conduct; that we may profess an erroneous creed, and yet our spirit and conduct may be formed nearly irrespective of it; in short, that there is a difference between principles and opinions; the one are the actual moving causes which lie at the root of action, the other often float in the mind without being reduced to practice.’” (Page 16)

“In reviewing some of these questions, which occupied my attention at so early a period, I have seen reason to bless God for preserving me at a time when my judgment was so immature.” (Page 14)

Product Details

• Title: The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller, vol. 1: Memoirs, Sermons, ETC
• Author: Andrew Fuller
• Series: The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller
• Publisher: American Baptist Publication Society
• Publication Date: 1845
• Pages: 731

About Andrew Fuller

Andrew Fuller (1754 – 7 May 1815) was an eminent Baptist minister, born in Cambridgeshire, and settled at Kettering. Fuller was a zealous controversialist in defence of the governmental theory of the atonement against Hyper-Calvinism on the one hand and Socinianism and Sandemanianism on the other, but he is chiefly distinguished in connection with the foundation of the Baptist Missionary Society, to which he for the most part devoted the energies of his life.