Evangelist William Romaine preaches at St. Mary’s, Oxford, on “the Lord our righteousness;” he offends self-righteous scholars and is barred from preaching there again - March 20

William Cowper writes his last poem “The Castaway,” in which he compares himself to a man who has fallen off a ship in a storm and has to be abandoned by his shipmates.

1661 - Death at St. Mary’s College, St. Andrews, Scotland, of famed Presbyterian preacher and author Samuel Rutherford (March 29 and 30 are also sometimes given).

1757 - Evangelist William Romaine preaches at St. Mary’s, Oxford, on “the Lord our righteousness” and gives such offense to the self-righteous scholars that he is barred from ever preaching there again. Romaine (1714-1795) was a sovereign grace Anglican preacher and author.

1799 - Believing himself eternally damned, William Cowper writes his last poem “The Castaway,” in which he compares himself to a man who has fallen off a ship in a storm and has to be abandoned by his shipmates. Cowper is well-known in English literature as a precursor of the Romantic movement and also wrote such hymns as “There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood,” and “O for a Closer Walk with God.”

1873 - In a letter to an assembly of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, W. H. Miles, their only living bishop, urges them to elect three more because the denomination has grown so large one or two bishops can no longer oversee it.

– Source: Christian History Institute, baptists.net