Enjoy Suffering

Over the next several weeks let’s walk through Romans 8: 28. You know it, right? Follow me and comment if you so desire as we learn from one of my favorite preachers of all time. His name is Thomas Watson. I don’t just like him because his first name is a remarkable name usually given to men of great intelligence (I didn’t say that), but because in the late seventeenth century he was ejected from the Church of England with 2,000 other pastors and put through intense hardship and suffering. Watson was an English Puritan preacher. He was educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge where he was noted for remarkably hard study. In 1646 he was commenced a sixteen year pastorate at St. Stephen’s Walbrook. In 1651 he was imprisoned briefly with some other ministers for advocating and participating in Christopher Love’s plot to recall Charles II. He was released and later was formally reinstated vicar of St. Stephen’s Walbrook. He obtained great fame and popularity as preacher until the Restoration when he was ejected for nonconformity.