Dear Sir:
Re Canon Pulford’s timely letter concerning ‘youing’ God. Having being brought up to pray Biblically and as one trained in linguistics, I look upon the modern arbitrary trend in English-speaking countries with great disdain. My past employment brought me into contact with some dozen languages other than English, none of which show such lack of taste in addressing God.
Words usually …
Posts Tagged Canon Pulford
On ‘Youing’ God
Aug 21
To Honour God
Aug 17
… to tell him with apparent military coldness, “Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a canon-shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.” Then Cromwell leaves this log-book-like record to give the bereaved father deep spiritual comfort. Such spiritual intimacy, however, is not merely shown when dealing with family members and close friends. When writing to Thomas Fairfax who was at the head of Cromwell’s troops, the Protector praises God …
Where Olyott Got It Wrong
Mar 10
… knowledge that Luther, like his contemporaries Zwingli and Calvin had reservations about the canon of Scripture. We also accept that Luther called his Reformed brethren ‘Anabaptists’ and ‘heretics’. For a fully-fledged doctrine of the Word in writings outside of the Bible itself, we must rely on Whitaker and Fulke in England and Bullinger in Switzerland. The Puritans hardly ever reached this Reformed standard as they followed Samuel Rutherford and John Calvin too strongly …
… the law, till all be fulfilled.” Here, Jesus refers to two separate letters in the Old Testament canon, the ‘jot’ or ‘yohd’, which is the smallest consonant in Hebrew, and the ‘tittle’ or ‘keraia’, which is the smallest vocalisation letter or sign. Pioneering linguistic laws which became known in a modified form as Grimms’ Law (after the Grimm brothers) half a century later, John Gill showed that the Greek keraia was the Hebrew Hiriq, (transcribed Chirek by Gill) or dot …
Robert Oliver on Huntington
Aug 15
… the Holy Spirit by striving to keep the ten commandments? Is there no New Testament in Oliver’s canon?
In keeping with modern legalists, Oliver objects to my using Acts 13:39 “By him (Christ) all that believe are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses” as an antidote against legalism. He puts ‘over against’ this, with obvious approval, the words of Fuller, “To allege there are things in the precepts of the New Testament which …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… of the Scriptures, hidden in the inessentials which have accumulated during the formation of the canon. It was in the new republic formed out of the American colonies after the great awakening of the first three-quarters of the 18th century that the New Divinity, or New England, School was founded, built four square on the moral government theory of God’s supposed rectoral administration of the world. This brought with it a metaphorical use of Scripture which paid lip service to orthodox …
