Baptist minister (the son of John Gadsby and Martha Lingard Gadsby), hymnal compiler, author of over 250 hymns, and Baptist apologist. Gadsby's "A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship" (1814, 1838) is a high Calvinistic hymnal which remains in use today (2014) among British Strict and Particular Baptists. They use reprints of the 1930 edition. This work was the subject of a doctoral dissertations entitled "Engaging the Heart: Orthodoxy and Experimentalism in William Gadsby's A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship" by Deborah A. Ruhl, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA in 2013. Link to the dissertation is https://etd.ohiolink.edu/rws_etd/document/get/osu1366221131/inline
Baptist minister (the son of John Gadsby and Martha Lingard Gadsby), hymnal compiler, author of over 250 hymns, and Baptist apologist. Gadsby's "A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship" (1814, 1838) is a high Calvinistic hymnal which remains in use today (2014) among British Strict and Particular Baptists. They use reprints of the 1930 edition. This work was the subject of a doctoral dissertations entitled "Engaging the Heart: Orthodoxy and Experimentalism in William Gadsby's A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship" by Deborah A. Ruhl, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA in 2013. Link to the dissertation is https://etd.ohiolink.edu/rws_etd/document/get/osu1366221131/inline
Inscription
Upraised vault in place of grave no. 1450
North side: In memory of William GADSBY upwards of 38 years Minister of the
Baptist Chapel, Rochdale Road, Manchester. Died 27th January 1844 aged 71
years. His last words were " I shall soon be with Him shouting Victory,
Victory for ever. Free Grace, Free Grace, Free Grace".
South side: In memory of Elizabeth GADSBY, relict of William GADSBY died
16th March 1851 in the 80th year of her age. In Christ there dwells a
treasure all divine and matchless grace has made that treasure mine.
On flat stone beneath top slab: In his desk was found a slip of paper on
which was the following in his own handwriting- Let this be put on my stone,
Here rests the body of a sinner base who had no hope but in electing grace.
The Love, Blood, Life, and Righteousness of God was his sweet theme and this
he spread abroad.
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