Edward Williams

Edward Williams (1750-1813) was a Welshman who served as an Independent minister at Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire (1776) and Oswestry (1777-1791), keeping an academy during much of that time. Like Ryland, Fuller, and Sutcliff, Williams was a committed evangelical Calvinist. In 1792 he removed to Birmingham to pastor the Carrs Lane Independent church, at which time he was awarded an honorary D.D. from Edinburgh University. His most important publication was An Essay on the Equity of Divine Government and the Sovereignty of Divine Grace, which Edwards proposed for publication by subscription in an advertisement in February 1792. He also published that same year A Discourse on the Christian’s Reasons for Glorying in the Cross of Christ, Containing a Vindication of Christian Societies and Ministers who Insist on the Importance of Preaching Christ Crucified (Shrewsbury, 1792).