Evangelical Revival · 1792

An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens

William Carey (1761-1834)

William Carey makes the case that the Great Commission still binds every Christian and that the church is obliged to carry the gospel to nations that have never heard it. Writing as an obscure Particular Baptist pastor and cobbler, he answers the hyper-Calvinist objection that the conversion of the heathen should be left to God alone, surveys the religious state of the world, and lays out a concrete plan for a missionary society. Published in 1792, the pamphlet led directly to the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society and became the charter of the modern Protestant missionary movement.

1 hr total · 6 chapters