Benjamin Stinton (1677-1719) is the second essay in the book - British Particular Baptists, volume 4, which is due to be released in December

Historians of the Baptist tradition have long honored the name of Benjamin Stinton, thanks in large part to circumstances often seen as coincidental to the man himself. Often a mere footnote in a congregation’s history, whose line of preachers includes his eminent predecessor and father-in-law, Benjamin Keach, the well-known theologian and Stinton’s successor, John Gill, the hymnologist and Baptist statesman, John Rippon, and the incomparable preacher, Charles Spurgeon, Stinton has long been painted as a placeholder who stood in the pulpit after the influential ministry of Benjamin Keach had come to a conclusion and before the congregation could weather the storm associated with the calling of the long-serving John Gill. Due largely to his scarce publishing legacy and his early death, Stinton has not garnered much closer focus from later generations. However, that lacuna in the record should not be interpreted as a lack of import in the ministry of this Southwark-based Particular Baptist minister. --Jonathan Arnold