… juxtaposes ‘hybrid’ Anglicans against the Presbyterian ‘purity’ of Calvin, Knox and Beza. Bede, Greathead, Bradwardine and Wycliffe show that the Five Points were preached in England in all ages. Calvin never reached the Lutheran and Anglican standards on repentance and justification. Knox rejected the Emden forms and the Anglican exiles’ pastor-preacher, elder, deacon system, preferring a seven-tier hierarchy and forbidding the public reading of God’s Word. Winzet listed …
Posts Tagged Beza
Anglicans and Presbyterians
Aug 21
Clifford on Schism
Oct 24
… This was especially the position of England’s major Continental advisers, Bullinger, Gualter, Beza and Calvin. The break-up of the Church of England was not through the desires of her Reformed/Puritan members of Calvin’s day but through the tyrannical outlawing of the Church a century later by military usurpers who denounced the rule of the Church by the Church (Convocation) and made their ‘Model Church’ a puppet of their ‘Model Parliament’. This reversed the Reformation and …
Clifford on Hooker
Nov 12
… Presidential (not Presbyterian) church system as tailor-made for himself and not for duplication. Beza, a Bullinger convert, reorganised the church. Geneva paid little heed to Calvin until the mid 1550s following the German-speaking Reformers or no one. Calvin often changed his system in an anti-Reformed direction. He was falsely informed about the Church of England by her ‘puritan’ faction. On learning the truth, Geneva banned British ‘puritan’ works and begged Bullinger to …
Henry Bullinger
Sep 15
… should be accompanied by Bullinger’s on the same themes so as to preserve a good balance. When Beza took over the Church at Geneva, the Council advised him to walk in Bullinger’s, Bucer’s and Calvin’s footsteps, in that order. Bullinger’s major doctrinal work The Decades, was made compulsory reading for theological students by Archbishop Whitgift and was quickly translated into many foreign languages. The Reformed Churches throughout Eastern and Western Europe, including …
Cox and Knox
Nov 3
… character of the Anglicans at Frankfurt and we have the testimonies of Bullinger, Martyr, Calvin, Beza and Gualter etc. to back this up.
The 1575 documents, though initially critical of Cox, nevertheless, present him as one who sought for peace rather than discord and one who was prepared to accept any truly Reformed order of worship, including the Geneva model, to that end. Even William Whitingham who supported Knox against the Anglican Reformers until he went too far, wrote: …
Cox and Knox
Nov 3
… character of the Anglicans at Frankfurt and we have the testimonies of Bullinger, Martyr, Calvin, Beza and Gualter etc. to back this up.
The 1575 documents, though initially critical of Cox, nevertheless, present him as one who sought for peace rather than discord and one who was prepared to accept any truly Reformed order of worship, including the Geneva model, to that end. Even William Whitingham who supported Knox against the Anglican Reformers until he went too far, wrote: …
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… Reformers such as Bucer, Calvin, Martyr, Bullinger, Gualter and Zanchy, and after a while, even Beza, joined hands with the Reformed Church of England in condemning their practices.
When John Foxe found that these Precisian enemies of the Reformed Church of England, in their efforts to discredit him, were persecuting his son Samuel, and his fellow-reformer Lawrence Humphrey, President of Samuel’s college, Magdalan, he protested at their puritanising of externals instead of …
Irresistible Grace
Sep 21
… rarely let Calvin publish alone but always in conjunction with Bullinger and recommended that Beza followed Bullinger before Calvin.
The rounds which Calvin clearly won:
1. Pighius thought sinners could sin or not sin at will. Calvin replied that our wills had that freedom originally, but lost it in the fall. Now we sin of necessity. Pighius, like 18 th century Andrew Fuller following him, claimed that the will was fallen enough to deserve condemnation but was not …
The Synod of Dort
Aug 17
… and Catechism (originally in French, 1561) and the German Heidelberger Catechism (1563). One of Beza’s pupils, Jacob Arminius, however, began to doubt these principles, chiefly after reading William Perkins’ Aurea Armilla, which he felt destroyed human initiative and responsibility in salvation. He thus countered it with his Examen Praedestinationis Perkinsianae, and devised five points which he felt were more acceptable: 1. God bestowed salvation from eternity on those he foresaw …
… Frankfurt period amongst extreme Hyper-Calvinists and Separatists from whom both Calvin and even Beza distanced themselves. Historically speaking, the Reformed faith ought to be called Bullingerism, Bucerism or Jewelism rather than Calvinism. Arber admits that he is using both the terms ‘Anglican’ and ‘Calvinist’ anachronistically as the first known occurrence of the term ‘Calvinist’ appeared in 1579 and the term ‘Anglican’ was first used in the following century. Arber …
