Sir:
I am always thrilled to read Jason Loh’s letters-cum-articles and consider him one of the best informed churchmen of this age. However, there was a slight slip of the pen in his letter of 12th /26th March referring to John Overall’s influence under Charles I. As Overall (1559-1618) was long dead by 1625, the year of Charles I’s accession, and as Mr Loh returns to James I in …
Posts Tagged Calvinistic-Arminian controversy
John Overall not an Arminian
Dec 27
… makes a few mistakes concerning his years up to 1768 but otherwise his account up to Booth’s controversy with Fuller is excellent. Surprisingly, Oliver drops the subject here to be continued in Chapter 8.
Chapter 4: The Communion Controversy
The subject is briefly opened and then dropped to be continued seven chapters later. The exclusive Baptists argued that believer’s baptism by immersion was a guarantee of right faith and the Lord’s Table was for those of right …
Iain Murray’s Controversy
Dec 15
… Though The Banner of Truth Magazine is entitled to consider any matter as ‘an important controversy’ (Issue 378, p. 22), as in all controversies it is important to keep a cool head and avoid unwarranted statements. I must therefore point out that the argument that I denigrate 18th century evangelical contemporaries of William Huntington in all denominations is entirely unwarranted. Anyone who has read my recent articles and books on 18th century evangelicals of all denominations …
… and the fate of those dying outside of the Protestant fold. Modern debates have turned the Temple Controversy into a discussion about the pros and cons of Presbyterianism and Episcopacy which were not even mentioned in the original debate. Sadly, history is rejected and Hooker and Travers are given fictive roles on an imaginary stage, using artificial scripts reminiscent of the Anti-Episcopalian, politico-religious debates of the Dissenting Revolution of 1640-60.
When Master of …
Exaggerated Claims concerning Andrew Fuller and False Information Regarding ‘High-Calvinists’
Dear Sir,
1795-1835 was a time of widespread revival with Anglican Robert Hawker preaching to thousands, Independent William Huntington equalled his efforts and Baptist William Gadsby founding 45-50 churches filled with new converts. The PBs were not inactive in this time but Mr Cook …
… were against it, whereas they had nothing to do with it, or rather, nothing to do with this modern controversy which is forced onto the churches, leaving havoc and destruction in its wake. This raises the question of whether we have an objective study of the three Ks before us, or are they being misused to batter down the Biblical strongholds of those who cannot accept modern re-definitions of Calvinism and the denial of the ‘particular’ nature of the Atonement.
In his …
John Gill and His Successors
Aug 17
… was to dishonour the Gospel for which Gill stood. It was in conjunction with the down-grade controversy that Spurgeon affirmed he had taken up Gill’s mantle. He wished to be for his age what Gill had been in the century before. Mr. Murray has other wishes and he is respectfully entitled to them. He has no business, however, to besmirch the memory of a true saint and replace it with an artificial gospel based on a distortion of the truth. This is not preaching the gospel properly as …
Most readers are familiar with the Calvinist-Arminian controversy of the 18th century in which free-grace, championed by Whitefield, Toplady and Romaine was set against free-will, maintained by Fletcher, Sellon and Wesley. The controversy dealt with whether salvation was made possible by Christ, depending on man’s acceptance of it, or whether Christ secured His Church’s salvation by His atoning death. At the same time, a similar controversy was …
… Peter 1:1
Present day evangelicals tend to believe that the fierce Calvinist-Arminian controversy of the eighteenth century was merely a question of whether God chose the elect or the elect chose God. This is an oversimplification. Then the point of discussion was not so much the broad question “Who are the elect?” as the more basic question “Whom does God consider righteous?” Our brethren in those days were more interested in the means of salvation rather than the …
The Synod of Dort
Aug 17
… confronted by John Davenant in his answer on behalf of the Synod to the Gallican pamphlet On the Controversy, among the French Divines of the Reformed Church. Davenant’s rebuttal of Cameron’s Semi-Pelagianism helped procure French agreement to the canons.
At their first public reception, and in the presence of the Prince of Orange, Carleton gave a speech outlining the need to unite pursuit of the truth with peace and harmony. Before the debates began, all present was asked …
