Finished Matthew Henry's commentary on Galatians
 Matthew Henry's Commentary on Galatians by Joshua Bayes Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 03 Bayes, Joshua by Alexander Balloch Grosart [439] [440] |
BAYES, JOSHUA (1671–1746), divine, was son of the Rev. Samuel Bayes, who was ejected by the Act of Uniformity of 1662 from a living in Derbyshire, and after 1662 lived at Manchester until his death. It is believed that Joshua was born in Manchester in 1671. He received his entire secular education in the grammar school of his native town. Being dedicated from his birth to the nonconformist ministry, he was placed under the tuition of the Rev. Richard Frankland, of Attercliffe in Yorkshire, on 15 Nov. 1686. On the conclusion of his course he proceeded to London, and was admitted for ‘examination’ by a number of the elder ministers ‘according to the practice of the times.’ He was ordained preacher of the gospel and minister on 22 June 1694. This—the first public ordination amongst dissenters in the city after the Act of Uniformity—took place in the meeting-house of Dr. Annesley in Little St. Helens. There were six ‘candidates,’ one of whom was Dr. Edmund Calamy. It appears that young Bayes ‘served’ the churches around London as a kind of itinerant or evangelist for some years. But about 1706 he settled at St. Thomas's meeting-house, Southwark, as assistant to John Sheffield, one of the most original of the later puritan writers. This engagement requiring his attendance only in the morning of each Sunday, he also acted as assistant to Christopher Taylor at Leather Lane. When Matthew Henry died, leaving his ‘Commentary’ unfinished, its completion was entrusted to a select number of presbyterian divines, including Bayes, to whom was assigned the Epistle to the Galatians. The continuation has never secured the unique acceptance of Matthew Henry's own writing, but the ‘Galatians’ is among the best of the supplements. Taylor of Leather Lane dying in 1723, Bayes, his assistant, was invited to succeed him. Accordingly he resigned the morning service at St. Thomas's. Subsequently he himself appointed ‘assistants,’ first John Cornish, and next his own son, Thomas Bayes. Dr. Calamy's death in 1732 caused a vacancy in the Merchants' lectureship at Salters' Hall, and Bayes was chosen to succeed him. In 1735 he associated himself with a number of divines in a course of lectures—also delivered at Salters' Hall—against popery. His own subject was ‘The Church of Rome's Doctrine and Practice with relation to the Worship of God in an unknown tongue.’ He died on 24 April 1746, and was buried in Bunhill Fields. Besides the publications already named, he published several occasional sermons. There is a very fine portrait of him (in oil) in Dr. Williams's library, engraved in Wilson's ‘History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches.’
[Calamy's Account, p. 496, Contin. p. 643; Henry's Commentary, in loco; Protestant Dissenters' Magazine, v. 163; Bunhill Inscriptions (fifty-second year is erroneously given in his monumental inscription); Wilson's Dissenting Churches, iv. 396.]
[Calamy's Account, p. 496, Contin. p. 643; Henry's Commentary, in loco; Protestant Dissenters' Magazine, v. 163; Bunhill Inscriptions (fifty-second year is erroneously given in his monumental inscription); Wilson's Dissenting Churches, iv. 396.]
A sermon preach'd to the Societies for Reformation of Manners, at Salters-Hall, on Monday, July 1, 1723 - Bayes, Joshua, 1671-1746
Sermons against popery, preached at Salters-Hall, in the year 1735 (Volume 1) - Barker, John, 1682-1762
Vol. 1.
-- A Discourse Concerning Transubstantiation / William Harris. --Vol. 1.
-- A Second Discourse Concerning Transubstantiation / William Harris. --
-- The Veneration of Saints and Images / O. Hughes. --
Sermons against popery, preached at Salters-Hall, in the year 1735 (Volume 2) - Barker, John, 1682-1762
Vol. 2.
-- A dissertation on 2 Thess. II. 1-12 in which 'tis shewn that the Bishop of Rome is the Man of Sin --
-- The sources of corrupting both natural and revealed religion, exemplified in the Romish doctrine of penance and pilgrimages / Jeremiah Hunt. --
-- The Church of Rome's doctrine and practise with relation to the worship of God in an unknown tongue examin'd / Joshua Bayes. --
-- The popish doctrine of auricular confession and priestly absolution considered / Joseph Burroughs. --
-- The popish doctrine of merit and justification considered / John Newman. --
-- The popish doctrine of purgatory repugnant to the Scripture account of remission through the blood of Christ / J. Earle. --
-- The principles of popery schismatical / Moses Lowman. --
-- Persecution and Cruelty in the principles, practices, and spirit of the Romish Church / Benjamin Grosvenor. --
-- The reasons and necessity of the Reformation / Thomas Leavesly. --
-- A dissertation on 2 Thess. II. 1-12 in which 'tis shewn that the Bishop of Rome is the Man of Sin --
-- The sources of corrupting both natural and revealed religion, exemplified in the Romish doctrine of penance and pilgrimages / Jeremiah Hunt. --
-- The Church of Rome's doctrine and practise with relation to the worship of God in an unknown tongue examin'd / Joshua Bayes. --
-- The popish doctrine of auricular confession and priestly absolution considered / Joseph Burroughs. --
-- The popish doctrine of merit and justification considered / John Newman. --
-- The popish doctrine of purgatory repugnant to the Scripture account of remission through the blood of Christ / J. Earle. --
-- The principles of popery schismatical / Moses Lowman. --
-- Persecution and Cruelty in the principles, practices, and spirit of the Romish Church / Benjamin Grosvenor. --
-- The reasons and necessity of the Reformation / Thomas Leavesly. --
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