Review of Amyraut Affirmed: or ‘Owenism, a Caricature of Calvinism’
by Alan C. Clifford
In this provocative booklet, Dr Allan C. Clifford’s responds to Ian Hamilton’s Amyraldianism – is it modified Calvinism? by presenting Amyraldianism as orthodox Calvinism and the Westminster Confession as a caricature of it. Clifford’s argument is that both John Calvin (1509-1564) and …
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Review of Amyraut Affirmed
Sep 15
E. T. Clifford on Doddridge
Aug 22
… Gill on one of the Five Points only, namely election and reprobation. Concerning allied points, I affirmed that Doddridge disagreed with Gill on justification, but not radically so, and that he fully agreed with Gill that Christ’s sacrifice for the elect also worked out universal benefits. This latter point is commonly denied by those who are ill-termed ‘High Calvinists’ or ‘Hyper-Calvinists’. I believe, as stated in yet a third version of my original manuscript, that Doddridge’s …
… develop through ill health. With brother Burrows’ help, however, this great truth has been re-affirmed, proving a fitting end to my series.
George M. Ella, Mülheim
… of the Church of England.) Hooker, Sandys, Pilkington, Whitgift, Whitaker and even Bancroft affirmed the same. It would be difficult to find an Anglican Reformer who disagreed!
Rutherford, severely critical of Anglican and Congregationalist understanding of Scripture concerning church and law ( Rex Lex ), rejected Crisp’s Anglican orthodoxy expressed in Christian Liberty No Licentious Doctrine, which Presbyterian Twisse nevertheless defended as did also Anglican …
… supposed natural abilities and duties to grasp out and take God’s provisions in Christ. Ryland affirmed that salvation was all of grace. Only then could he preach to sinners that salvation was truly there for all who repented and turned to Christ. Otherwise there would be no gospel for any man. The legalism of the duty-faith protagonists was thus obnoxious to him. Referring to the false doctrine introduced by Andrew Fuller and the two Robert Halls and supported by his son, Ryland said, …
… quick to point out, was that what he denied in his letters to his friends and in his Journal, he affirmed in his hymns, especially hymns written during his first love for Christ. Thus we find Hervey quoting Wesley’s hymns back at him to show him that salvation was fully accomplished on the Cross. On the topic of Christ’s imputed righteousness, Hervey quotes Wesley as writing:
“Join earth and heaven to bless
The Lord our righteousness.
The mystery of redemption this.
This the …
… for very sound, Biblical reasons. He denied the free offer of a universal atonement to all but he affirmed the responsibility of all ministers everywhere to preach the whole gospel to the whole man as the Spirit leads. Sadly, those who today speak of a ‘free offer’ miss out the essential elements of the atonement and the doctrines of grace. Though they may preach to all, they do not preach the gospel to all, but argue, as Fuller, that the major doctrines are for believers only. In this …
John Gill and His Successors
Aug 17
… he anchored in the 1729 Declaration of Faith as being the very opposite of what Gill actually affirmed shows either acute negative prejudice or a total neglect of sources.
Mr Murray produces a red herring in his references to the 1689 Particular Baptist Declaration of Faith. He infers that Rippon’s 1790 reprint implies a rejection of Gill’s (and Rippon’s church’s) 1729 statement of faith. He omits to add that Rippon reprinted Gill’s confession in 1800! Rippon was a …
The Gospel of Deceit
Aug 17
… of the philosophical approach to the atonement and man’s state newly associated with it. He affirmed, “The word offer is not so proper as declaration, proposal, or gift. The gospel is a declaration of the free grace of God. It is a proposal of salvation by Jesus Christ, and it proclaims Christ as the free and absolute gift of God.” These very words reveal the heart of a man dedicated to God in fervent evangelism.
Johnson also seriously errs when he presents William …
… not believe in duty-faith, ignoring the fact that Gill’s contemporaries, including Rippon , affirmed that Gill did not enter into the Modern Question debate which resulted later in the duty-faith movement. Equally anachronistic is Hulse’s view of Gill on the so-called ‘free offer’. Gill explains in his Preface to Davis’ hymnbook a nd The Cau se of God a nd Truth, that he stopped using the word ‘offer,’ in the sense of presenting Christ, because of its misuse …
