TITLE: CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL (1645) Hanserd Knollys, Colossians 3:11
Read by Jeff Massey
Hanserd Knollys was an influential leader among the 17th century English Particular Baptists. A former priest in the Church of England, he came to Baptist convictions in 1643/44 and was instrumental in the formation of a Baptist Church in Great St. Helen-street, over which he was ordained the pastor in 1645 and served until 1691. He was a man acquainted with many persecutions and hardships, but was graciously sustained by God. Along with Benjamin Keach and William Kiffin, he was considered one of the 'first three' of the Baptist ministers in his day.
In this sermon, Knollys declares that Christ is all, and in all every true believer. Knollys demonstrates from Scripture how Christ is everything that the believer needs in this world and in the world to come. He also exhorts all true believers to esteem Christ more highly than they do now, by giving Him the preminence in all things. Lastly, Knollys closes with an exhortation to unbelievers to seek Christ alone for salvation, for there is no salvation found in any other.
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“ Great Corrective Sermon! ” This sermon from a worthy historic Baptist preacher sets straight the true teaching and refutes the modern day error and heresies based upon this much abused text, which people have quoted as their basis for the Humanistic philosophy of "equality" for "all" (as if to remove all distinctions, races, sexes, and stations in persons) and Democracy's "equal rights" which takes "no difference" universally, and over-literally, missing the sense entirely.
This sermon refutes those Socialistic errors which first appeared in the 19th century and are still believed in churches today by defining who "all" is, and the what the passage actually teaches. (R. L. Dabney refuted these same errors in his Anti-Biblical Theories of Rights using this text).
The end of the sermon is even more helpful, demonstrating and instructing in how to seek salvation in Christ, contrary to evangelistic notions of modern Christianity.
Hanserd Knollys was an influential leader among the 17th century English Particular Baptists. A former priest in the Church of England, he came to Baptist convictions in 1643/44 and was instrumental in the formation of a Baptist Church in Great St. Helen-street, over which he...
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