Isaac Woodman

Isaac Woodman (1715-1777) attended Bristol Academy, 1738-1740, after which he served as pastor of the Baptist church at Warwick from 1740 to 1746. In 1749 (ordained in 1753) he began a long ministry at Sutton-in-Elms, Leicestershire, remaining there until his death in 1777. He was awarded an A.M. from Rhode Island College in 1770. He was a founding member of the Northamptonshire Baptist Association in October 1764, signing the first Circular Letter in 1765. Woodman also wrote Circular Letters in 1771 on “Original Sin” and in 1775 on “Perseverance.” John Rippon would later publish “Twelve Directions for a Christian’s Holy Walking” by Woodman in the Baptist Annual Register, vol. 3 (1798-1801), pp. 113-117. See also T. S. H. Elwyn, The Northamptonshire Baptist Association (London:  Carey Kingsgate, 1964), 11-13, 99; Arthur S. Langley, “Baptist Ministers in England about 1750 A.D,” Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society 6 (1918-19), 148-149; Roger Hayden, Continuity and Change: Evangelical Calvinism among Eighteenth-Century Baptist Ministers trained at Bristol Academy, 1690–1791 (London: Baptist Historical Society, for Roger Hayden, 2006), 249.