… and his work with Kiffin for the Second London Confession finds brief mention. Haykin relates how Keach was healed as an answer to Knollys’ prayers and wonders how such prayers could fit in with Knollys denial of ‘extraordinary gifts of the Spirit’. Such requests, one would think, belong to the normal Christians life and thus are not ‘extraordinary’ in Haykin’s sense. Does not Haykin pray for his sick friends without claiming ‘extraordinary gifts of the Spirit’? The …
Posts Tagged Benjamin Keach
… accept Skepp’s specific emphasis on the need for a work of the Spirit in the heart.
The Keach Myth
Now Hulse postulates a breach between Benjamin Keach , a former Goat Yard pastor, a nd Gill on the grounds that Keach used the 1689 Seco nd London Confession, whereas in 1729, Gill deliberately drew up a new Declaration of Fai th substituting the former ‘by his own teaching’ thus leading the church away from Keach’s (a nd we presume Hulse’s) …
… work or cannot accept Skepp’s emphasis on the need for a work of the Spirit in the heart.
The Keach Myth
Now Hulse postulates a breach between Benjamin Keach, a former Goat Yard pastor, and Gill on the grounds that Keach used the 1689 Second London Confession, whereas in 1729, Gill deliberately drew up a new Declaration of Faith substituting the former ‘by his own teaching’ thus leading the church away from Keach’s (and we presume Hulse’s) orthodoxy. Hulse argues that …
… Metropolitan Tabernacle, is famous in Baptist history for being pastored by such prominent men as Benjamin Keach, Benjamin Stinton, John Rippon and Charles H. Spurgeon besides Gill.
When Gill took over the Goat Yard church, its doctrines and methods of church government were far from Biblical. Too much emphasis was placed on the supervisory rights of extra-church affiliations which robbed local churches of their sovereignty. An association of ministers who met regularly at a …
… musical lyrics. The Free Churches pioneered rhyming ditties which the C. of E. borrowed. Baptist Benjamin Keach introduced liturgical rhymes into his church ignorantly convinced that the Hebrews, like the Cockneys, spoke rhyming slang. His church fell to pieces. Arian Isaac Watts thought church services needed an entertaining pep-pill and demanded happy, lively music. These men’s Music Hall apologies for hymn-singing are shocking. William Romaine rejected Watts’ Whims. He is a better …
… Baptist theology with ‘serious implications for the future’. Presenting an imaginary Keach v. Gill scenario on justification as ‘proof’, Oliver follows Tom Ascoll’s un-Biblical view that eternity is past time and accuses Gill of “collapsing salvation history back into eternity”. He pronounces Gill guilty of Hyper-Calvinism by association, claiming that Congregationalist Joseph Hussey, an alleged Hyper-Calvinist, knew John Skepp who knew John Gill so Hussey must have …
Writing a hundred years ago, Benjamin Warfield looked on the New Divinity teaching of Jonathan Edwards Jun., Samuel Hopkins and Joseph Bellamy as a lost cause. He felt it had forsaken all traces of Calvinism for Pelagianism, becoming the staple fare of Arminians. He looked upon it as an evangelistic, revivalist movement quite void of a Christian gospel with its rejection of the satisfaction of Christ and the doctrine of …
… to modern ecumenism. It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.
G. M. Ella
Fuller and Evangelism
Aug 21
… to modern ecumenism. It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.
… to modern ecumenism. It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.”
G. M. Ella
