Andrew Fuller

Fuller was born in Wicken, Cambridgeshire, and settled at Kettering, Northamptonshire. During his life, Fuller pastored two congregations – Soham (1775–1782) and Kettering (1782–1815), which is now the Fuller Baptist Church, He died on 7 May 1815 at Kettering. His son, J. G. Fuller established a printing company in Kettering, and took William Knibb as an apprentice. Knibb later became a Baptist missionary in Jamaica.{{cite book |last1=John Hinton |title=Memoir of William Knibb, Missionary in Jamaica |date=1847 |publisher=Houlston and Stoneman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E74NAAAAQAAJ |access-date=10 November 2022 |language=en|author1-link=John Howard Hinton }}

Fuller is best known in connection with the foundation of the Baptist Missionary Society, to which he for the most part devoted his energies.{{sfn|Wood|1907}} His work in promoting the missionary enterprises of the Baptist church began about 1784. A sermon published by him then, The Nature and Importance of Walking by Faith, with an appendix A Few Persuasives to a General Union in Prayer for the Revival of Religion, indirectly stimulated the movement. The Baptist Missionary Society (initially "Particular Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen"){{ODNBweb|id=4657|title=Carey, William|first=Brian|last=Stanley|author-link=Brian Stanley (historian)}} was formed at Kettering in 1792. William Carey, impressed by Fuller's work The Gospel Worthy of all Acceptation, became the first missionary. Fuller took on the work at home.

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Fuller, a Particular Baptist, was a controversialist in defence of the governmental theory of the atonement against hyper-Calvinism on the one hand and Socinianism and Sandemanianism on the other. Abraham Booth accused him of giving up true Calvinism.{{ODNBweb|id=2871|title=Booth, Abraham|first=E. F.|last=Clipsham}} Fuller debated theology with the General Baptist Dan Taylor, but they remained on good terms.{{ODNBweb|id=27023|title=Taylor, Dan|first=E. F.|last=Clipsham}}

According to Christianity Today, "'Tall, stout and muscular, a famous wrestler in his youth,' this self-taught farmer’s son became a champion for Christ, 'the most creatively useful theologian' of the Particular Baptists. His book The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation, 1785, restated Calvinist theology for Baptists influenced by the Evangelical Revival. His Doctorate of Divinity was bestowed by Brown University, Rhode Island."

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• The Gospel worthy of all acceptation, or the Obligations of Men fully to credit and cordially to approve whatever God makes known.
• The Calvinistic and Socinian Systems examined and compared as to their Moral Tendency, 1794, 1796, 1802.
• The Gospel its own Witness, or the Holy Nature and Divine Harmony of the Christian Religion contrasted with the Immorality and Absurdity of Deism, 1799–1800.
• An Apology for the late Christian Missions to India.
• Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Pearce, A.M., of Birmingham, 1800.
• Expository Discourses on Genesis, 2 vols. 1806.
• Expository Discourses on the Apocalypse, 1815.
• Sermons on Various Subjects, 1814.
• The Backslider, 1801, 1840, 1847.

Fuller also wrote pamphlets, sermons, and essays. He contributed to Charles Edward de Coetlogon's Theological Miscellany, the Evangelical Magazine, the Missionary Magazine, the Quarterly Magazine, the Protestant Dissenters' Magazine, and the Biblical Magazine. John Ryland, in his Life of Fuller, enumerated 167 articles that Fuller had contributed. Editions of his Complete Works appeared in 1838, 1840, 1845, 1852, and 1853. Joseph Belcher edited an edition in three volumes for the Baptist Publication Society of Philadelphia, and his major publications were issued with a memoir by his son in Bohn's Standard Library, 1852.

Fuller kept shorthand notes of his earlier sermons and these remained undeciphered until 2019.{{cite news |title=Divinity student cracks religious code |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-47028244 |access-date=28 January 2019 |work=BBC News |date=28 January 2019}}

• Deathless Sermon
• Strict Baptist
• Reformed Baptist

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• Brackney, William H. A Genetic History of Baptist Thought: With Special Reference to Baptists in Britain and North America. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2004. {{ ISBN|978-0-86554-913-5}}
• {{cite book|last=Brewster|first=Paul |title=Andrew Fuller: Model Pastor-Theologian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSW5AwAAQBAJ|year=2010|publisher=B&H Publishing Group|location=Nashville|isbn=978-1-4336-7299-6}}
• {{cite book|first=Chris |last=Chun|title=The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of Andrew Fuller|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ceTKSqxbF8cC|year=2012|publisher=BRILL|location=Leiden, Boston|isbn=978-90-04-22784-2}}
• {{cite book|last=Fuller|first=Andrew|editor=Michael D. McMullen, Timothy D. Whelan|title=The Diary of Andrew Fuller, 1780-1801|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XD5nDQAAQBAJ|year=2016|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|isbn=978-3-11-042018-0}}
• {{cite book|author=Andrew Gunton Fuller (son)|title=Andrew Fuller|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fkgBAAAAQAAJ|year=1882|publisher=Hodder and Stoughton|location=London}}
• {{cite book|author=John Webster Morris|editor=Rufus Babcock|title=Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Andrew Fuller|url=https://archive.org/details/memoirslifeandw00babcgoog|year=1830|publisher=Lincoln & Edmands|location=Boston}}
• Oliver, Robert, History of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1771 - 1892, Banner of Truth (2006), {{ISBN|0-85151-920-2}}
• {{cite book|last=Piper|first=John|title=Andrew Fuller: Holy Faith, Worthy Gospel, World Mission|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6PTXDAAAQBAJ|year=2016|publisher=Crossway|location=Wheaton, IL|isbn=978-1-4335-5192-5}}
• {{cite book|last=Ryland|first=John|title=Rev. Andrew Fuller|url=https://archive.org/details/workfaithlabour01fullgoog|year=1818|publisher=Button & Son|location=London}}
• The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller: with a memoir of his life, in three volumes, Sprinkle Publications (1988), {{ISBN|1-59442-102-1}}

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• [https://andrewfullercenter.org/ Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies] – is preparing a modern critical edition of The Works of Andrew Fuller in partnership with the publishing house De Gruyter. This project is led by Michael A. G. Haykin, professor of church history at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The Center also publishes an open access journal: [https://hesedandemet.com/product/the-journal-of-andrew-fuller-studies/ The Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies].
• [http://www.geocities.com/baptist_documents/fuller.andrew.index.html Memoir, Sermons and Circular Letters ] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20091026223901/http://geocities.com/baptist_documents/fuller.andrew.index.html Archived] 2009-10-25) edited by James Duvall, Baptist History Homepage.
• [http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/ConferenceMessages/ByConference/16/2038_The_Pastors_Missionary_Vision/ The Pastors Missionary Vision] links to a [mp3 only] presentation by John Armstrong at the 1988 Desiring God Pastor's Conference, in which Armstrong draws heavily on Fuller's life and works.
• [http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/ConferenceMessages/ByDate/1977_Holy_Faith_Worthy_Gospel_World_Vision/ Holy Faith, Worthy Gospel, World Vision mp3] Andrew Fuller's Broadsides Against Sandemanianism, Hyper-Calvinism, and Global Unbelief by John Piper at Desiring God 2007 Conference for Pastors.

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The eight volume "The Works of Andrew Fuller" includes volumes from the 1820, 1824, and 1825 editions.

• {{cite book|title=The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJIPAAAAIAAJ|volume=I|year=1820|publisher=Anderson and Neehan|location=Philadelphia}}
• {{cite book|title=The Calvinistic and Socinian Systems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GTwYAQAAIAAJ|volume=II|year=1824|publisher=S. Converse|location=New Haven}}
• {{cite book|title=The Gospel Its Own Witness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWsuAAAAYAAJ|volume=III|year=1824|publisher=S. Converse|location=New Haven}}
• {{cite book|title=Dialogues, Letters, and Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GJIPAAAAIAAJ|volume=IV|year=1824|publisher=S. Converse|location=New Haven}}
• {{cite book|title=Expository Discourses on the Book of Genesis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kn4uAAAAYAAJ|volume=V|year=1825|publisher=S. Converse|location=New Haven}}
• {{cite book|title=Expository Discourses on the Apocalypse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xH0uAAAAYAAJ|volume=VI|year=1825|publisher=S. Converse|location=New Haven}}
• {{cite book|title=Sermons on Various Subjects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MH0uAAAAYAAJ|volume=VII|year=1824|publisher=S. Converse|location=New Haven}}
• {{cite book|title=Miscellanies: Papers, Letters, Sermons, Tracts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HxUYAQAAIAAJ|volume=VIII|year=1825|publisher=S. Converse|location=New Haven}}

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