Author - Dustin W. Benge

“A Most Blessed Exercise”: Andrew Fuller and Prayer

Andrew Fuller (1754–1825) once wrote, “A life of faith will ever be a life of prayer.”[1] Central within the pastoral framework of the eighteenth century Calvinistic Baptists was dependence upon the Holy Spirit and prayer as the primary means of Christian growth. Fuller’s friend, John Ryland, Jr. (1753–1825), concurred as he reflected...