William Guy

William Guy (1739-1783) came to the Baptist meeting at Sheepshead, Leicestershire, in 1774, where he remained until his death in 1783. He immediately led the church into a revival; Sutcliff visited Guy in the autumn of 1774 to witness the revival for himself. John Ryland, Jr., preached Guy’s funeral sermon, Seasonable Hints to a Bereaved Church: And the Blessedness of the Dead, Who Die in the Lord (1783). See Michael A. G. Haykin, One Heart and One Soul: John Sutcliff of Olney, His Friends and his Times (Darlington: Evangelical Press, 1994), 83-84.