Author: PHILPOT, J.C.
Title: Memoir of the Late William Tiptaft, with a Selection from his Letters.
Description: London: J.Gadsby, George Yard, Bouverie Street, 1867. Memoir of William Tiptaft, the founder of the Abbey Baptist Church, Abingdon. 19cms x 11cms. Pp.144, foxing to title page and final page. Purple blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to front, spine and edges sunned. G+.** "In 1829, he became vicar of Sutton Courtenay. It was a time of great turmoil and questioning in the church. While there was a strong movement towards High Church principles and several well-publicised conversions to Catholicism, Tiptaft’s spiritual development led him in the opposite direction, towards an extreme Calvinism. After a period of uncertainty that had started in 1827, he arrived two years later at the belief that salvation could not be achieved by good works but depended entirely on divine grace. He was encouraged in this by certain local clergymen who held the same opinions, but it cost him his hopes of marriage when his fiancée rejected both them and him." (AbingdonAreaArchaeologyandHistorySoc).

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