![]() ![]() ![]() The book was also of great help to Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Martyn Lloyd-Jones gave to his wife, Bethan, when she was seeking the Lord. The Anxious Inquirer sold over 500,000 copies in his lifetime and was translated into more than a dozen languages. At the same time his religious writings, the best known of which are The Anxious Inquirer and An Earnest Ministry, acquired a wide circulation. For several years his success as a preacher was comparatively small but he became suddenly popular in about 1814, and began to attract large crowds. A year and a half later, on a visit to Birmingham, his preaching was so highly esteemed by the congregation of Carrs Lane Independent chapel that they invited him to exercise his ministry amongst them he settled there in 1805, and was ordained in May 1806. ![]() After seven years' apprenticeship to a linen-draper in Poole, Dorset, he decided to become a preacher, and in 1802 he went to David Bogue's training institution at Gosport in Hampshire. ![]()
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