TY - BOOK AU - Hanson,Brian L. AU - Haykin,Michael A.G. TI - Waiting on a spirit of promise: life and theology of suffering of Abraham Cheare SN - 9780227902905 AV - BT732.7 .H36 2014 U1 - 285.9092 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge PB - James Clarke KW - Cheare, Abraham, KW - Puritan movements KW - England KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Suffering KW - Religious aspects KW - Church of England KW - Cheare, Abraham, -1668 KW - Christianity KW - RELIGION KW - Presbyterian KW - bisacsh KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious KW - Electronic books N1 - Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright information; Contents; Introduction; 1. Sweet for Jesus' Sake: The Life of Abraham Cheare; 2. Lift up Our Voice Like a Trumpet: Cheare's Ministry in the 1650s; 3. Waiting on the Spirit of Promise: Abraham Cheare in Prison in the 1660s; 4. A Letter of Abraham Cheare on Baptism, c. 1648-1658; 5. Abraham Cheare, Sighs for Sion; 6. Abraham Cheare, A Looking-Glass; 7. Abraham Cheare, Words in Season; Letters; Bibliography; Back Cover N2 - Waiting on the Spirit of Promise'' is a study of the life and ministry of Abraham Cheare (1626-1668), containing selections from Cheare's works, and rescuing an important seventeenth-century English Baptist from obscurity. Cheare has been overshadowed by other more celebrated Baptist contemporaries, but as the pastor of the Particular Baptist work in Plymouth, Devon, Cheare played a key role in the advance of the Baptist cause in the West Country in the 1650s. His ''Sighs for Sion'' is an excellent illustration of early Baptist piety. With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Cheare, like UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=836593 ER -