… Christ and flooded her country with the gospel. Elizabeth did evil in supporting the Reformation; Anne Bradstreet was mistaken in adorning literature with her words of healing and instruction and Miss Havergal should have reserved her golden tongue and heavenly expressions for the kitchen sink. Modern women writers, it appears, must not criticise the wayward teachings of men but, through their passivity, help to spread them.
Happily, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is not such …
Posts Tagged Anne Bradstreet
Reply to a Woman-Hater
Nov 15
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… 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
David A. Doudney and his Walks and Talks with Jesus
David …
Hold Fast
Aug 17
… as Mrs A. B. Hoblyn, Ruth Byron and Lady Powerscourt besides more well-known personalities such as Anne Steele and Anne Dutton. The names and works of many men already mentioned are praised, supplemented by others such as John Kent, Bishop Hall, Charles Banks and J. K. Popham.
In Hazleton’s final chapter, The Future, he sees the established evangelicalism of his day as rejecting the doctrines portrayed in his book, adopting the Pelagianism that the Reformers combated and believing …
Portraits of Faithful Saints
Aug 18
… Henry and the English Reformation such as the myth that Henry divorced Katherine in order to marry Anne Boleyn, though in 1514, when divorce proceedings started, Anne was only seven years of age! Hanko argues that the pope ‘disapproved’ of the divorce, and argues that it was thus invalid. Again, methinks, Hanko leans too closely to Rome! However, Pope Clement II, after approving of the divorce was silenced by the powerful hand of the Emperor, Charles V, Katherine’s nephew, who threatened …
… the Strangers’ Church at Glastonbury under the leadership of Vallerand Poulain, which included Anne Hooper, wife of the martyr, also made for Frankfurt. Poullain received permission to found a congregation for the Dutch, French and English exiles in March, 1554. Initially they joined in worship using Poullain’s Liturgia Sacra, which gave those conducting the worship great freedom. This had been roughly the form used in Strassburg and which Calvin modified for his own Geneva worship …
