Barry, James. The Doctrine of Particular Election, before Time, asserted and proved by God's Word; Barry on Election, Revised by the Rev. William Huntington, S.S. London: E. Huntington, 1814. Reprint Edition. [8741]
Disbound, 22 cm (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 102 clean pp.. the last leaf is detached. Good.
Title continues: In Answer to a Challenge given the Author to make good the abovesaid Doctrine. Wherein is evidently discovered, I. That the abovesaid doctrine, rightly understood and believed, with application to one's self, is the great enemy of sin, both in the heart and life of a true Believer; and that which keeps the Believer from despair, in the deepest desertion and temptation. II. The the doctrine of free-will and general redemption, &c. is an inlet to, and an encourager of sin; and which leads in the end to horrid despair.
This pamphlet was first published in 1715.
The quotations in the following are from William Huntington's Introduction to a different pamphlet that he prepared for reprinting.
Rev. James Barry (1641-1719) b. in Ireland; d. in London. His birth coincided with a great persecution of Protestants, and he later said that his nurse threw him out into the snow in fear she should lose her life for nursing a heretic's child. "He was called to the public ministry in Dublin, where he laboured with great success, which made him the butt of popish rage" and 100 pounds was offered for his capture, dead or alive. Disguised, he fled to England and became pastor of a church near Stepney. In taking this congregation he left the established church and became an independent. "[James Barry] was the son of a protestant bishop, the nephew of a noble lord, and was training up for the ministry, and expected to cut no mean figure in the same establishment of which his father was a prelate; but God came with an army of terrors, and with a few arrows from his quiver, bent him to his bow, and made him a son of consolation to the chosen fraternity of Jesus Christ." He had great physical afflictions for the last twenty years of his life, which incapacitated him for regular ministerial duties.
"He wrote the following books: Election before Time, Two Sermons on the Apple Tree...The Spirit of Prayer, The Falseness and Unscripturalness of Anabaptism, A Cordial for Sin-despairing Souls....I cannot learn that Dr. Calamy, or any other writer of the History of the Puritans, take any notice of him, which is easily accounted for; God having stript him of all confidence in the flesh, and wiped him out of the cathedral, his testimony could never gain him any credit among the tories, papists, or rotten arminians, whose craft is always in danger from such witnesses; therefore, when they become historians, they are sure to bury the names of such men, and their testimonies, in silence, lest the devil's interest should fall to the ground." - William Huntington, The Coalheaver's Cousin & A Few Fragments of the Life and Death of the Rev. James Barry, intended as a Supplement to the Coalheaver's Cousin.
William Huntington (1744-1813), a Calvinistic Methodist preacher. “He passed his early life in menial service and dissipation, but after conversion he entered the ministry, and became a popular preacher in London. On his books he took the title S.S., or Sinner Saved.” – M’Clintock & Strong.
“ I cannot get a D.D. for the want of cash, neither can I get at M.A. for want of learning; therefore I am compelled to fly for refuge to S.S., by which I mean Sinner Saved.” – Huntington.
