Abraham Booth

Abraham Booth (20 May 1734 – 27 January 1806) was an English dissenting minister and author, known as a Baptist apologetical writer.

Booth was born at Blackwell, near Alfreton, Derbyshire, on 20 May 1734; while he was young, the family moved to Annesley Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, where his father had taken a small farm as a tenant of the Duke of Portland.

[1] Baptist preachers interested Booth in religion, and in 1755 he was baptised by immersion, and began to preach in the Midland counties.

Soon after, he began to preach on Sundays at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Chesterfield, and elsewhere in the Midland towns and villages, still keeping his school.

[1] The Particular Baptist church of Little Prescot Street, Goodman's Fields, in east London, invited Booth to be their pastor.

In 1770 Booth published The Death of Legal Hope, the Life of Evangelical Obedience, London, as a supplement to The Reign of Grace, against Arminianism and Antinomianism.

[1] In 1777 Booth published a new edition of Jacob Abbadie's work on The Deity of Jesus Christ.

In 1784 he published Pædobaptism Examined, an answer to the publication by Thomas Robins of an abridgement of a Treatise on Baptism left by Matthew Henry.