The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation: The Duty of Sinners to Believe in Jesus Christ

by Andrew Fuller

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Genres: Theology, Christian

125 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 10, 2010

About the author

Andrew Fuller (6 February 1754 – 7 May 1815) was an English Particular Baptist minister and theologian. Known as a promoter of missionary work, he also took part in theological controversy. Fuller is best known in connection with the foundation of the Baptist Missionary Society, to which he for the most part devoted his energies.

Reviews

[Nicholas Abraham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fuller argues that every person has a duty to believe the gospel, and thus every minister has a duty to preach the gospel to all people. It is no wonder why this book sparked such change among the Particular Baptists and beyond. He held out an evangelical Calvinism, which ran counter to much of the norm of his day.

[Brit · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent book by Fuller on the duty of sinners to believe in Jesus. However, like most books of his era, this one is a difficult read, and what took 100 pages to say could have been spelled out in a short pamphlet. I appreciate his insights and reasoning, but this is also not a book I could ever hand to somebody for edification.

[Matt Crawford · Rating 4 out of 5]

In many ways, this is a restatement of Thomas Watsons Doctrine of Repentance or better yet John Owen’s Mortification of Sin. Especially since Fuller relies heavily on Owen. It is not so much on the acceptance of the Gospel as the title perhaps suggests, but rather how there is an immediate need to spread the Gospel. Christians are to be the heralds of the Gospel.

[Stephen Drew]

One of the most influential books that transformed baptists from a small sec to a global influence

[Tessa]

This book is a hard read (I found his argumentation very hard to read and follow, so manny commas!) but not all that technical (it is not concerned with compatibilism, philosophy, or arguing the finer points of theology). It is simply pointing out the problem of negating the “good faith offer” of God to the gospel through faith in Jesus. He never says if we believe there are those God calls to believe who have no ability to believe that God is then the author of evil (the logical conclusion). He merely lays out the evidence and, apparently, is confident people of his time see the blatant error of their belief.