… Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalist and Baptists, Parliamentary documents and four major biographies. I also re-read Dr. Urwick’s brief biography of Howe, an avowed opponent of state-controlled religion whether Cromwellian or Stuart, and dipped into Howe’s six volumed works. The author-editor discussed the work with me on the friendliest terms per e-mail, and was most happy with the result as published and, indeed, asked me to do further work on behalf of Josuah Press.
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Posts Tagged Biographies
Cromwell Queried
Aug 21
Books
Aug 21
… volume in the Mountain Movers series and a work on Law and Gospel in the Theology of John Gill. Biographies are in preparation on John Brine the Particular Baptist leader and John Durie, ‘The Reformed Library-Keeper’, librarian to Charles I and a member of the Westminster Assembly and keeper of the WA records.
Pre-2009, over 200 essay articles published by:
EFS Förlag, English Churchman, Evangelical Times, Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, Banner of Truth Magazine, Baptist …
… between the Countess and the Wesley’s is given a major place but very often the Wesleys’ biographies cut far too deeply into Lady Huntingdon’s own story. On the other hand, her Ladyship’s coteries which even featured John Gill as a preacher are not treated in depth.
Doing more by doing less
Mrs Cook’s book is too long-drawn-out. She has very good material and excellent quotes, which, although she complains of their 18th century language give life to the …
… advised to edit out all the often irrelevant discussions concerning Fuller interspersed in the biographies. Nettles could have integrated them into his own Fuller article after ridding them of repetitions and overlaps. Controversy is welcome but those engaged in it in conjunction with biography are advised to relate the controversy to the subject at hand and, after giving evidence, draw conclusions one way or the other. The Fuller material appears to have been thrown in arbitrarily with …
Portraits of Faithful Saints
Aug 18
… of learning and eagerness to witness for their Lord. Brother Hanko also uses these three mini-biographies to show how his own denomination, The Protestant Reform Churches came into being. It has all apparently to do with opinions regarding covenants and common grace. Nevertheless, though this reviewer has corresponded eagerly per snail mail with leading members of this denomination in America and Europe and has striven to understand its inner structure, its outward testimony and its …
… the Second London Confession possible. If this is so, it would have been better to have put the biographies at the beginning of the book, Kiffin’s and Knollys’ being given more detail, followed by a chapter on how these saints interacted and then trace their involvement historically in the development and publication of the Second London Confession. Even this, however, would not produce a satisfactory book as no less than 37 pastors signed the Confession and, presumably, they all had …
… the British. On the Continent, he is a household word. There are a number of excellent inexpensive biographies on the second-hand market. Here Engelsma deals with Kuyper’s doctrine of particular grace which he feels could lead people wrongly to the conclusion that he was a free offer man, which he was not. Engelsma shows how Kuyper’s distinction between common and special grace falls flat as each is always trespassing on the other. Actually, this can be said of Engelsma’s particular …
… love affair, became mentally ill and was finally converted are facts available in over fifty biographies. Most lack, however, information concerning Cowper’s continued interest in education. In his letters, he discusses well over seventy contemporary books on educational themes, character building, the reformation of manners and the Christian way of life. He studied all the Ancients on education and found Xenaphon particularly helpful. He studied Rousseau’s educational reforms with a …
