… Thursday, besides Mr. Newton’s (Anglican minister) in the Evening. One of the Preachers was Mr. Booth, (Abraham Booth (1734-1806) was to become the pastor of a Calvinistic Baptist Church at Little Prescot Street, Goodman’s Fields some seven months later.) who has lately published an excellent Work called the Reign of Grace. He was bred a Weaver, and has been forced to work with his Hands hitherto for the Maintenance of himself and a large Family. But the Lord who has given him …
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Harmon on Fuller
Nov 7
… of the New Connection who warned Fuller that he had departed from Calvinism. Balanced Calvinist Abraham Booth told Fuller that he was ‘lost’ due to his New Divinity teaching and rejection of imputed righteousness. Fuller’s debt to Latitudinarians and New Divinity, acknowledged by Haykin, is apparent from his works, his arguments being often taken verbatim from them. Any scholar would see at a glance, for instance, that The Gospel Worthy reflects the theology and words of Bellamy’s …
… Leaders
Oliver draws brief pen-sketches of John Ryland Sen., Robert Hall Sen. and Abraham Booth. Happily, he does not list the myths propagated to ‘prove’ that Ryland was a Hyper and takes Ryland’s criticism of Fullerism in his stride. Oliver’s mini-sketch of Robert Hall Sen. is sweet and beautiful with almost no hint of the controversies associated with his name. After all, Hall is often accused of being the father of Fullerism. Concerning Booth, Oliver makes a few …
… 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 calling Fuller ‘lost’. Booth spoke of a true imputation in the sense that the elect’s guilt was transferred to Christ. Fuller denied any transfer, …
… Grace in both Testaments. NCT thus stands for No Covenant Theology. In his works Ekklesia and Abraham’s Four Seeds, Reisinger de-churches the OT saints whom the NT introduces as examples of true faithfulness and introduces a hierarchy of believers from those in a limbus partum, to those who experience ‘hope realised’ (NCT hope?). The NCT robs Christ of His eternal attributes displayed in Scripture, presenting Him as a latter-day eschatological man who has to ‘earn’ His divine …
… really happened at Calvary. Needless to say, Fuller denies the doctrine of imputation, which moved Abraham Booth to declare Fuller ‘lost’. 16
Going through all Fuller’s fables would take a whole book but one further major error must be condemned. This is what J. P. Boyce in his excellent Abstract of Systematic Theology calls Fuller’s ‘Universalism’. 17 Because Fuller sees the atonement as a symbol indicating sufficiency for all, he presents salvation as being …
Portraits of Faithful Saints
Aug 18
… Hanko includes people who were far less ‘Reformed’ in their theology than such as John Gill, Abraham Booth and John Ryland Sen., not forgetting the ‘Three Ks’, Knollys, Kiffin and Keach!
Part Seven deals with 20th Century Reformers in the U.S. (1920-1965), and includes only three men, J. Gresham Machen, Herman Hoeksma and George Martin Ophoff of various Presbyterian backgrounds, the latter two being Herman Hanko’s tutors. Ophof was a new name to me so I read his story …
… to learn what true Baptists teach, they must look to the old men of the old paths like John Gill, Abraham Booth, John Ryland Senior and Joseph Kinghorn.
Andrew Fuller because of his Liberal theology and most questionable politics and attitude to the Indians was fully incapable of doing gospel missionary work in any way and was a millstone around Carey’s strong neck for decades. He was unable to serve even his own church which he left without a pastor for months in the year. Instead, he …
… he partly accepts Wesley’s view of it and partly changes it. For him, the righteousness which Abraham obtained by faith was righteousness which came as a result of Abraham’s own faith not Christ’s righteousness which is given to true sons with the gift of faith and justification. Arguing that ‘impute’ as used in Romans 4 is used ‘improperly’ and ‘figuratively’. Fuller explains that in its derived meaning the word rules out any actual imputation either of sin to Christ …
