1868 WILLIAM L GILES. 600 + Pages of Manuscript Sermons by Important Baptist Divine!

A wonderful assemblage of over 600 pages of manuscript sermons, accounts of a tour of America, lectures, etc., by two important 19th century Baptists, including one who wrote the most influential Baptism hymn of the 19th century and both of whom were friendly with the Spurgeons. John Eustace Giles [1805-1875] was the son of Reverend William Giles [1771-1846], also a Baptist Minister. He was born at Dartmouth, Devonshire, probably in the house built for the Giles family above Baptist Chapel in Meeting House Lane. His father, William [1771-1846], as a young man studied with Thomas Coke in London to obtain some rudimentary medical skills to serve him as a missionary with the Methodists to Sierra Leone [1792]. He also heard John Wesley preach. Then, on the way via ship, he became deeply influenced by his time with a pair of early Baptist missionaries [James Rodway and Jacob Grigg] and himself, being convinced of believer’s baptism, joined in with them, returning from his time in Sierra Leo