FULLER'S GATE (porta fullonis), one of the me- diaeval gates on the western side of Jerusalem (Adam- nanus, i, 1), thought by Dr. Robinson (Researches, i, 475) to be the Porta Judiciaria of Brocardus (ch. viii, fin.), in tlie wall of those days, somewhere over against
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the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, leading to Sillo (Neby Samwil) tind Gibeon, and also the Serb of Ara- bian writers (Edrisi, about A.D. 1150, ed Jaubert, i, 314; "Histor}' of Jerus." in the Fundgr. dis Orients, ii, 129). It seems to have derived its name from lead- ing to the Fuller's Field (Isa. vii, 3).
FULLER'S MONUMENT Oivr/^ia rov yvcupkujc), a conspicuous object mentioned liy Josephus in liis ac- count of the course of the third or outer wall of Jeru- salem {War, V, 4, 2), as situated near "the tower of the corner," where the wall bent, after passing the sepulchres of the kings, to the valley of the Kidron ; evidently, therefore, at the north-east angle of the an- cient city (Strong's Harm, and Exjios. of the Gospel, Append, p. 23). It does not follow, as Dr. Barclay- supposes {City of the Gi'eat King, p. 2.5), that the mon- ument in question was situated in the Fuller's Field. See Jerusalem.
Fuller, Andrew, perhaps the most eminent and influential of Baptist theologians, Avas born in 1754, at "VVicken, Cambridgeshire, England. His opportunities for education were scanty, and his sul)sequent attain- ments as a theologian resulted from the activity of a mind naturally vigorous working earnestly on no very ample materials. He was baptized in 1770, began preaching in 1774, and in 1775 became pastor of a church in Soham. His doctrinal system at this time was unsettled. The prevailing type of opinion then prevalent among the Baptists was an exorbitant Cal- vinism, verging to an Antinomian and fatalistic ex- treme. It was deemed necessary to a consistent or- thodox}' for a preacher to avoid offering freely to all men the invitation of the Gospel. Dr. Gill (q.v.) was the standard of doctrinal soundness. Fuller states that Gill and Bunyan were authors to whom he was much indebted. He gradually found that ihej did not agree, and still more was he impressed with the practical dift'erence between the accepted teaching and the New Testament. In 1776 he became acquainted with Messrs. Ryland and Sutcliffe, names to be after- wards honorably associated with his in the foreign mis- sionary work. The works of the New England theo- logians, particularly Edwards and Bellamy, confirmed him in the views to which his mind had been tending. The change in the spirit of his preaching awakened violent opposition. His congregation, however, in- creased, and the effects of his doctrine confirmed his faith in it. In 1782 he removed to Kettering, which was the scene of his labors to the close of life. Here, in 1784, he gave deliberate expression to his views in the treatise. The Gospel vorthy of all Acceptation. In the same j'car he concerted with his friend Sutcliffe a meeting for united prayer for the revival of religion and the conversion of the world — the origin of the " Monthh' Concert." Out of these counsels grew the missionary movement under the leadership of Care}' (q. v.\ in which, as secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, Mr. Fuller bore a laborious and responsible part. In 1703 appeared his celebrated treatise, The Calvinistic and Socininn Systems compared. Princeton College in 1795, and Yale in 1805, conferred upon him the degree of D.D., which he modestly declined. He died in 1815. His other works are, 3. The Gospel its aim Witness (1800): — 4. Di(dogiies, Essays, and Letters : — 5. Exposition of Genesis: — 6. The Great Question an- «i'erffZ(1806) : — 7. Strictures onSandemanianism{lS09): — 8. Serm07is on various Subjects : — 9. Exposition of the Revelation: — 10. Letters on Communion (1815). His writings are marked hy solid force of reasoning, plain- ness and simplicity of statement, and an ingenuous candor. In reference to his unaffected style, he has been called "the Franklin of theology." Without the opportunity to become a critical student of the Scrip- tures, he is a better Biblical theologian- than many whose scholarship he could not as|)ire to. For his the- olofjical position, sec the article Calvinism. — Works,
with Life prefixed, 5 vols. London, 1831 ; also 1853, imp. 8vo ; more complete edition, edited by Belcher, 3 vols. Philadel. (L. E. S.)
Fuller, Thomas, divine, historian, genius, and wit, was a son of tiie Eev. T. Fuller, minister of Aid- winkle, in Northamptonshire, at which place he was born in June, 1008. He was educated at Queen's Col- lege, Cambridge, and removed to Sidney College, of which he became follow in 1631. In 1632 he was ap- pointed minister of St. Bennet's parish, Cambridge, and acquired great popularity as a pulpit orator. He obtained, in the same year, the prebend of Salisbur}-, and afterwards the rectory of Broad Windsor, of both of which he was deprived during the Civil War, in con- sequence of his activity on the side of the monarch. Between 1640 and 1656 he published nearly the whole of his works. In 1648 he obtained the living of Wal- thani, in Essex, which in 1658 he quitted for that of Cranford, in Middlesex. At the Kestoration he recov- ered the prebend of Salisbury, was made D.D. and king's chaplain, and was looking forward to a mitre, when his prospects were closed bj' death, August 15, 1661. Fuller possessed a rcmarkabl}' tenacious mem- ory. He liad also a large share of wit and quaint hu- mor, whicli he sometimes allowed to run liot in his I writings. Among his chief works arc, .4 History of j the Holy War (Camb. 1610, 2d edit, fol.) -.—The Church I History of Britain (new edit, edited by Nichols, Lond. I 1837, 3 vols. 8vo) : — The History of the University of j Cambridge (new edit. Lond. 1840, 8vo) : — The History I of the Worthies of England {nevf ed. by Nuttall, Lond. j 1840, 3 vols. 8vo) : — Pisgah Sight of Palestine, a His- j to7-y of the Old and New Test. (Lond. 1662, fol.). Cole- ridge saj's that "Fuller was incomparably the most sensible, the least prejudiced great man of an age that boasted a galaxy of great men. He is a very volumi- nous writer, and yet, in all his numerous volumes on so many different subjects, it is scarcely too much to say that you will hardly find a page in which some one sentence out of ever}' three does not deserve to be quoted for itself as a motto or as a maxim." See Kussell, Memorials of the Life and Works of Fuller (Lond. 1844, sm. 8vo) ; Rogers, Fuller's Life and Writ- ings {Edinb. Rev. Ixxiv, 328).