It was called 'Black Bartholomew's Day'. It was on the 24th August, St Bartholomew's Day, 1662, 350 years ago, that over 2000 ministers, mostly Puritans, in the national Church of England, were officially ejected from their pulpits and refused permission to preach in their neighbourhoods. The subsequent strength of nonconformist religion in England depended much on the events of this fateful time.
Among those who were ejected are many well known names: Thomas Adams; Joseph Alleine; Richard Alleine; Richard Baxter; Thomas Baylie; Thomas Brooks; Joseph Caryl; Stephen Charnock; Thomas Doolittle; John Flavel; Thomas Gouge, son of William Gouge; William Greenhill; Philip Henry, father of Matthew; John Howe, who later came to minister in Antrim; Thomas Manton; Matthew Poole; Ralph Venning; Thomas Vincent & Thomas Watson.
It is important that we are not ignorant of these events and of those who played a prominent part in them. On this Reformation Sunday evening we want to consider the Great Ejection and it lessons for us.
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