04-John Berridge On Progressive Sanctification

John Berridge (1716-1793) was, as Nigel R.Pibworth put it, an
‘individual’, one who demonstrated ‘a singular spirituality’. 1
One-time Senior Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, in 1755
Berridge was installed as the Anglican incumbent in the village of
Everton on the borders of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and
Huntingdonshire. Even so, he was, as yet, unconverted. At that
time, he held to – and preached – salvation by works and the
acceptance of orthodox theology. Towards the end of 1757,
however, he was converted. Let his epitaph, which he himself
prepared, tell the story – as it does to this day in the churchyard at
Everton, where it speaks to all who will read and heed it: