FULLER, ANDREW, was born at Wicken, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, Feb. 6, 1754. He became pastor of the Baptist Church at Soham, in 1775, and removed to Kettering, in Northamptonshire, in 1782. He was one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society, and acted as its secre tary from its formation, Oct. 2, 1792, to his death, May 7, 1815. His education was extremely limited, and his early associations were very un favourable to enlarged views of religion, or to mental improvement in general. But the native vigour of his mind surmounted every obstacle, and raisod him to be one of the ablest theologians of his day ; while the sagacity, firmness, and energy of lais character, admirably fitted him for his posi tion in relation to the cause of missions. His writings are numerous ; but his reputation as an author is chiefly founded on The Gospel its own witness ; and The Calvinistic and Socinian systems compand.
The only other productions of his pen that de mand special mention in the present work ri.r his
Expositozy „Discourses on the Book of Genesis, (IS06, 2 VO1S. Svo), and a similar volume 0;z the Revelation 0815). For learned criticism he was wholly unfitted ; but for questions not involving scholarship, he possessed some of the most valu able qualifications of a Biblical expositor, masculine sense and acuteness, independence in forming his opinions, combined with a profound reverence for divine truth. An uniform edition of his works ap peared soon after his decease, edited by his most intimate friend Dr. Ryland, with a copious bio graphy ; a second edition was published by his son Andrew Gunton in 1857, 5 vols. 8vo, including a number of miscellaneous pieces collected from various periodicals ; a. third edition in one vol. royal Svo was issued in IS5o. His works on Deism and Socinianisin have also been reprinted by Mr. Bohn in his Standard Library.—J. E. R.