Samuel Cox

Samuel Cox (1826-1893) was an English Baptist minister and biblical expositor, born near London. From 1863 to 1888 he was pastor of the Mansfield Road Baptist chapel in Nottingham, and he founded The Expositor, a monthly journal of biblical interpretation, editing it from 1875 to 1884. He became the best-known Victorian advocate of the "larger hope" through Salvator Mundi (1877), which questioned the traditional doctrine of endless punishment, and its sequel The Larger Hope (1883).

The manifesto of the 'larger hope' among the English Nonconformists. Cox, a Baptist minister in Nottingham and founding editor of The Expositor, argued from scripture and the Greek that Christ is in fact, and not merely in offer, the Saviour of all — and lost his editorship for it. Clear, warm, and widely read, Salvator Mundi brought the restorationist case to thousands of readers no denominational Universalist book could reach.

(Note: this summary was automatically generated and may be inaccurate.)

Cox's short sequel to Salvator Mundi (1877, also in this collection), written after the elder work cost him his Nottingham pulpit: it answers the critics of the earlier book and restates the "larger hope" — that the divine discipline reaches beyond death until all are won — with the exegetical care that made Cox among the most respected biblical expositors of his day. The PDF scan comes from Google Books; the HathiTrust catalog record is also linked in this book's metadata.

(Note: this summary was automatically generated and may be inaccurate.)