PULLER, ANDitEw, an eminent Baptist minister, and theological and controversial writer, the son of a small farmer, was b. at liYicken, Cambridgeshire; Feb. 6, 1754. He received the rudiments of his education at the free school of Soham, and in his youth was principally engaged in agricultural labors. In his 17th year, he became a member of a Baptist church at Sollarn, and in 1775, he was chosen pastor of a congregation at that place. His small stipend of £21 per he endeavored to first a small shop, and then a school. In 1782, he removed to Kettering, Northampton shire, to take the pastorate of a congregation there. On the formation, in 1792, of the Baptist missionary society by Dr. Carey, himself, and eleven other ministers, he was appointed its secretary,.and the whole of his future life was devoted to the administra tion of its affairs. In 1794, he published a controversial treatise, entitled The Calvinis tic and Socinian Systems. examined and compared as to their Moral Tendency (Lond. 8vo).
This work was attacked by Dr. Toulmiu and Mr. Kentish, and F. replied in a pamph let, entitled Socinianism Indefensible (Lond. 1797, 8vo). His other principal publications are The Gospel its own Witness (Clipstone, 1797), and Expository Discourse on the Book of Genesis (2 vols. 8vo, Lond., 1806). He was also the author of a variety of single sermous and pamphlets. The sense, sagacity, and thoroughly practical knowledge of mankind which these writings display, have won. for F. the title of " the Franklin of theology." He died May 7, 1815. Three collected editions of his works have been published, besides American reprints; the first in 10 vols. 8vo, the second in 5, and the third in 1 royal 8vo. A volume' of his treatises was republished in Bohn's standard library, with a memoir by his son. F.'s Memoir of the Bev.• Samuel Pearce of Birmingham is much esteemed as a religious biography.