10 Facts About Samuel Pike

Samuel Pike was a British clergyman and a member of a religious movement known as Sandemanians.

Samuel Pike was educated for the independent ministry, receiving his general training from John Eames of the Congregational Fund academy, and his theology from John Hubbard at Stepney Academy.

Samuel Pike moved in 1747 to succeed John Hill as pastor at the Three Cranes meeting-house in Fruiterers Alley, Thames Street, London.

Early in his London ministry Samuel Pike established, in his house on Hoxton Square, an academy for training students for the ministry.

Samuel Pike adopted the principles of John Hutchinson, and defended them in a long work.

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In 1757 Samuel Pike became acquainted with the views of Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of John Glas.

Samuel Pike began to adopt Glassite or Sandemanian usages, including a weekly communion.

Samuel Pike was chosen "elder" in 1766, and ministered with great acceptance.

From London, Samuel Pike moved in 1771 to minister to a Sandemanian congregation at Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

Samuel Pike was a follower of the doctrines of Hutchinson, who found in scripture a system of physical science, and then became a follower of Glas, who held that biblical authority did not extend to such topics.