Holy Spirit Now Descend: Thomas Davis and the Evangelical Revival in Georgian Berkshire
Michael A. G. Haykin
Ettrick Press, 2022
190pp., paperback, £5.95
What a sweet and stirring snapshot of spiritual life among the Particular Baptists of the eighteenth century! Intended to introduce us to one of the relative unknowns of the eighteenth century, as the story unfolds, the eager reader is moved and encouraged by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit individually and congregationally. We marvel at God's work in the heart of Thomas Davis. We rejoice at the blessing of the Lord upon his faithful ministry. We honour the firm convictions that kept Davis anchored to his path. We thrill to the spread of the gospel through earnest preachers and lively churches. Our hearts sing with the poets whose words adorned God's truth and their experience. We are left believing that God can do it again, by men that history may barely remember, and so will get the glory to his own name. So we are left praying, with Davis, 'that the bright day of gospel grace may shine in upon many souls, to your abundant joy.'
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