Lecture given at the Protestant Reformation Society,
Regent’s Park College, Oxford, 2007
The Troubles at Frankfurt
A Vindication of our Martyrs’ Legacy
The tiny enclave that rescued the Reformation in England
Readers of Asterix will be familiar with a tiny fortress, a mere dot on the map of the Roman Empire, which was to bring Rome to its knees. So much for fairy-tales. Solid …
Posts Tagged ‘Troubles at Frankfurt’
… hundred years by the abuse and harsh criticism of a legion of know-all antagonists. A closer look at his character will show how ill-founded such criticism is. Mather was still in his twenties in 1692 and assisted his father, Increase Mather, aged fifty-three in his Boston church – miles away from Salem. Young as he was, Cotton Mather had a great deal of experience with witches. He had studied a huge amount of material concerning witchcraft in Europe and the North American colonies and was …
Cox and Knox
Nov 3
… Latin, Dutch, French, English, Low German and High German sources on the so-called ‘Troubles at Frankfurt’, one can only conclude that Knox’s alleged opposition to Cox, and so-called Coxian opposition to so-called Knoxians, is a myth used by a later generation to draw distinctions between ‘Puritans’ and ‘Anglicans’ which did not exist in 1553-54 when the troubles began.
The only major collection of documents in English, including some, such as Calvin’s letters, …
Contra Knox
Aug 21
… ‘irksome and unprofitable’? Does not even Edward Arber, in his Introduction to The Troubles at Frankfort (1907 edition) bemoan the fact that his beloved subject regarded the public reading of God’s Word with disdain and forbade lay participation in the service?
Mr. Wilson doubts that Winzet could speak the truth because he was a Roman Catholic. Yet Watt says of him, “It is evident that very little would have made Ninian Winzet one of our leading Reformers,” and points …
… procured an order of Parliament to force him to kowtow. As demonstrated in my book Troublemakers at Frankfurt : A Vindication of the English Reformation, Lloyd-Jones lacks source-evidence for his revisionist opinions of these problems. The views of faithful steward Maidstone who stood for militant independency, must be regarded alongside views of staff and family members who did not. Lord Macaulay’s analysis of Cromwell’s character is not as thorough and harsh as Catherine Macaulay’s …
Books
Aug 21
… Isaac McCoy: Apostle of the Western Trail, Particular Baptist Press.
2003, The Troublemakers at Frankfurt: A Vindication of the English Reformation, Go Publications.
2003, Second, revised edition of Isaac McCoy: Apostle of the Western Trail,
2003, The History of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Enid (Private publication by church).
2004, Common Grace and the Call of the Gospel, Go Publications.
2004, Biographical and introductory chapters to Reformation Heritage Books’ reprint …
… Haykin’s starts with a moving portrayal of Benjamin Francis, the man Gill wanted to succeed him at Carter Lane. Francis’ triumphs through his humble faith are inspiring. Then Robert Oliver gives interesting insights into the life and ministry of Abraham Booth, a man respected and honoured outside Baptist circles. Oliver sees Booth as following Gill’s leadership in combating Antinomianism and devotes a large section to the controversy between Fuller and Booth which ended in the latter …
… him. Oncken was then guided to the works of James Hervey. Oncken had developed a mind of his own at this time and soon left the employment of the Scotsman and moved to Leith as a pupil-teacher. Sadly, the boys of Leith resented having a foreign instructor, so nineteen-year-old Oncken decided to visit London to find new work. Shortly after his arrival, he was sitting on the top of a coach when it pulled up abruptly and Oncken was cast onto the stone pavement below where he lay dazed and …
Irresistible Grace
Sep 21
A lecture given at the Protestant Reformation Society,
August 27 th, 2009,
Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, England
Irresistible grace represents the traditional ‘I’ in the acronym ‘TULIP’. So now I shall tease you a little. The name ‘Tulip’ comes from the same Turkish root as ‘turban’ and the flower of that name was introduced by the Turks to Europe as a symbol of the spreading …
