Bakewell, John (2)
Bakewell, John (1)
an early Methodist preacher and poet, was born in 1721. In 1749 he began to-preach, and from that time to the end of his long life he was one of the most useful and honored of all Wesley’s lay helpers. He was on intimate terms with John and Charles Wesley, Toplady, Madan, and other good men. He was present at the ordination of Fletcher in 1757. He resided successively in Derbyshire, London, Bedford, Kent, and Staffordshire. The first class met in his house, and there the Rev. Thomas Rutherford died. It was in his house also, at Westminster, that in 1772 another Methodist itinerant, Thomas Olivers (q.v.), wrote the immortal hymn The God of Abraham praise. Bakewell died at Lewisham, near London, March 19, 1819, and James Creighton left his house for the last time to read the service over the body of his dear friend. The hymn Hail, thou once despised Jesus! will keep Bakewell’s name green forever. It first appeared in A Collection of Hymns addressed to the Holy, Holy, Holy, Triune God, in the Person of Jesus Christ, our Mediator and Advocate (1757). It is also found in Madan’s Collection (1760), and in Toplady’s Psalms and Hymns (1776). Bakewell wrote other hymns of excellence, which Mr. Stevenson thinks are a legacy to the Church, and should be published. See Stelfox, in Wesl. Meth. Magazine, 1863; Stevenson, City Road Chapel (Lond. and N. Y., 1872, 8vo), p. 461; id. The Methodist Hymn-book and its Associations (Lond. 1874, 12mo), p. 318; Belcher, Historical Sketches of Hymns, p. 79.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bakewell, John (2)
an English Congregational minister, was born at Cheadle, Staffordshire, Sept. 6, 1802. He was converted when about twenty years of age, and, on removing to Leicester, joined the Rev. Robert Hall’s Church. Mr. Bakewell studied a short time at the Baptist College of Bristol, and in 1826 entered the ministry of the Methodist New Connection in the Hanlev Circuit. In 1841 he was made editor of the magazines of the Connection. In 1849, feeling unequal to the itinerant life, he gave up his position as minister of that body. Mr. Bakewell then went to Notting Hill, joined the Congregational Church, and, though he never took any regular pastoral charge, preached often as supply until his death, Oct. 25, 1863. Mr. Bakewell was retiring in disposition, benevolent, and eminently pious. His appeals were earnest and sometimes tearful. He was a man of prayer. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1864, p. 199.