… the Arminian Corner but his history suggests that this picture needs to be corrected. He followed Alexander Nowell as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1596. Nowell was a thorough-going Reformer, more Calvinistic than Calvin on justification, election and atonement, who loved the doctrines of grace. Whitgift made Nowell’s catechism mandatory for all theological students and clergy, so it is nigh impossible to imagine that Puritan Whitgift would have given Nowell’s post to an …
Posts Tagged Alexander Nowell
John Overall not an Arminian
Dec 27
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
For those requesting me to give talks, please consult the list of topics below.
Alexander Nowell (c. 1507-1602): Teacher of Sound Doctrine
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): Poet of Purity
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1634): The Failure of the New England Experiment
Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778): A Debtor to Mercy Alone
Christopher and Mary Love: Like Name, Like Nature.
Cotton Mather (1663-1728): New England Pietist
Daniel Featley ( 1582-1645): Contender for the Faith …
… entitled Regeneration and The New Divinity Trend. There are three essays by Archibald Alexander two given in 1830, and one in 1831. These are entitled respectively, The Early History of Pelagianism ; Original Sin ; and The Inability of Sinners. Albert Dod provides a paper written in 1835 entitled On Revivals of Religion ; John Woodbridge’s paper on Sanctification written in 1842 follows Dod and the book ends with an article by Thomas Cleland given in 1834 on Bodily …
… asking them for gifts to support their own churches. In his recommendatory foreword to J. H. Alexander’s fine book More than Notion, Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones relates how he advised his Westminster Chapel congregation to make this book on Huntingtonian piety compulsory reading. Lloyd-Jones thanked God for the book and said that the people he described “show the vital difference between a head-knowledge of the Christian faith and a true heart experience.” This was the essence of …
… up, through CHRIST our Lord.”
Of note under this letter was the signature of Alexander Nowell the great Reformed teacher of the Elizabethan Settlement.
Now that Mary the Bloody, that gruesome symbol of the Scarlet Woman, fell with all her Babylon around her, the English exiles began their pilgrimage to the new Zion which they were called to build on the ashes of the martyrs. Those who were too poor to make the journey were helped on their way by their more …
Cromwell Queried
Aug 21
… of Son of the Manse, John Buchan, he quotes with approval the judgement of a fierce Romanist, Alexander Pope, and a practising Pantheist, William Wordsworth! In evaluating Church History, balance of judgement is a priority.
G. M. Ella, Mülheim
… ministers in livings forced from their legal occupants. Plundered property was auctioned off. Alexander’s words become meaningless on realising that the one-fifth pensions were not paid to those deemed ‘malignants, delinquents and scandalous’, nor were they paid to single men or the widows of the persecuted. Thus most ejected ministers were denied financial compensation. Mr Relf has obviously not studied Walker at first hand and appears to think that a mere thirty-year-old is …
Contra Relf
Nov 10
… ministers in livings forced from their legal occupants. Plundered property was auctioned off. Alexander’s words become meaningless on realising that the one-fifth pensions were not paid to those deemed ‘malignants, delinquents and scandalous’, nor were they paid to single men or the widows of the persecuted. Thus most ejected ministers were denied financial compensation. Mr Relf has obviously not studied Walker at first hand and appears to think that a mere thirty-year-old is …
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… the history of the Church and by Anglican Puritans such as Tyndale, Hooper, Latimer, Bradford, Nowell, Jewel, Parker, Grindal, Sandys, Abbott and Usher. Even later Episcopalian Puritans such as Perkins and Leighton contributed greatly to our understanding of election. An overview of Puritan teaching on election would have been helpful.
Jim Packer, on the witness of the Spirit in Puritan teaching, emphasises the inward testimony of the Spirit in the Christian’s life so that he …
