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John Sutcliff

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John sutcliffe was born in 1714 near Todmorden in West Yorkshire, and died in 1814. Minister at Olney in Buckinghamshire in England for 39 years until his death, he was one of the three who issued the Prayer Call of 1784, to extend the Kingdom of Christ’s Kingdom into the world, which brought about a revival of the Baptist Church within England and the formation in 1792 of the Baptist Missionary Society.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ "A cloud of witnesses: John Sutcliff (1752-1814)". Evangelical Times. 2002-09-01. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
  2. ^ "John Sutcliff (1752-1814)". Miscellanea Edintone. 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
  3. ^ "A memoir of the Rev. John Sutcliff of Olney, Bucks". The Baptist Magazine. February 1815: 45–53.
  4. ^ John Sutcliff. https://www.olneybaptist.org.uk/johnsutcliff_hiddentreasure.pdf [4/11/2024]