Posts Tagged A. J. Baxter

The Works of Andrew Fuller with a Biography (Part 2)

The Works of Andrew Fuller with a Biography

by the Editor Andrew Gunten Fuller

A Banner of Truth Trust Facsimile Reprint

Part Two

     The bulk of BOT publications between the late nineteen-fifties and mid-eighties were a great support to the churches. Since then the BOT have lowered their standards to meet a wider readerships and have bowed to popular demands for less …

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A Second Open Letter to the Founders’ Journal

… as in Wesley’s teaching, a rejection of Christ’s necessary obedience to the whole law as per Baxter and a Socinian usage of the Word of God. During the First Downgrade Controversy, there were orthodox men still on bo th sides. In the Second Downgrade Controversy there are no orthodox men on either side. The Hypers do not really exist but Five Point men are automatically ruled out by their now bad reputation and the other side is ruled out because of its liberal theology. The …

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What is a Baptist?

Dear Brethren,

     Before I had the privilege of joining this symposium, I felt that I knew quite well what a Baptist church was. My simple definition was that a Baptist church consisted of a body of believers who had joined together in fellowship, chosen a pastor and deacons, preferably out of their own midst, and decided, on what they held to be Biblical grounds, to require water …

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Affirmation 2010: A Non-Starter

Sir.

     Why is the EC promoting the para-church creed, Affirmation 2010, which seeks to ‘win the widest possible agreement’ in ‘various church bodies and constituencies’? This aim is doomed from the start as the twenty-four subscribers to date obviously represent different theologies and denominations and are dodging and dumbing down doctrinal issues. Their views of the Trinity, …

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A Sinner Becomes a Saint: William Huntington’s Conversion

     One evening, Huntington was sitting by the fireside reading his Bible when he came across the words, “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you,” John 14:20.  These words were at first incomprehensible to Huntington as he had not experienced being ‘in Christ’ and being thus a new creature. “There must be some secret  between Christ and …

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Reply to a Woman-Hater

Letter to New Focus in reply to a Woman-Hater

 

Dear Sir,

     The Jewish macho thanks God every day because he is not a woman. His Mohammedan counterpart believes a woman has no soul. Misogynists in Christian churches, not content with being the head over their wives, would place them under their feet and outlaw all Christian women from gospel witness. They believe that Deborah …

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Why I am not a Follower of Andrew Fuller

     Great changes are occurring in the contemporary theological scene and there seems to be a mass exodus from the old paths of our fathers in the faith to the new-fangled paths of what is now known as ‘Evangelical Calvinism’. The inspired teachings of the New Testament, the Reformation and the preaching of such 18th century stalwarts as John Gill, James Hervey and Augustus Toplady are …

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The Works of Andrew Fuller with a Biography (Part 1)

The Works of Andrew Fuller with a Biography

by the Editor Andrew Gunten Fuller

A Banner of Truth Trust Facsimile Reprint

 

Part One

     On the cover of the new BOT facsimile of Fuller’s works, we find the title and the name Michael A. G. Haykin. Prof. Haykin, however, neither edited the work nor provided the introductory biography. This was done by Andrew Fuller’s …

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Reformation Today and Justification from Eternity: A Review Article

     The March/April, 1999 number of Reformation Today features four articles on John Gill. The first, entitled John Gill – a Sketch of his Life , is a succinctly written biography of Gill’s faithful and productive life in the service of the gospel. Next, Editor Errol Hulse continues with John Gill – An Appreciation , presented as a review of The Life and Thought of John Gill …

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Cotton Mather Vindicated: A New Look at the Salem Witch Trials

     In 1692, New England was in a tumult. Within a matter of weeks no less than 150 suspects had been charged with witchcraft and in the Massachusetts colony frightened men women and children believed that the devil was on the loose. The epicentre of this wave of evil which was to alienate children from their parents, churches from their pastors, servants from their masters and even wives …

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