… Facing-Both-Ways attempt to distance himself from Knox’s and Goodman’s intrigues. (Letter to Cecil, Jan. 29, 1559).
Lastly, we note how Knox rejected the right of worship of Non-Conformists and urged tolerant, Puritan Anglicans such as Grindal to suppress what he (Knox) thought was the more radical element. Grindal informed Sir William Cecil, a great supporter of the Reformation but one who thought Knox was ‘odious’, with an amused twinkle in his eye, how a party of …
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Contra Knox
Aug 21
… regarding the success of Methodism Murray mentions merely the work of such as Newton and Cecil, the Evangelicals of the Church of England and the evangelical political lobby. None of these were Wesleyans.
Leaving his cut-down account of Wesley behind Murray describes Bramwell, Ouseley and Collins as men who lack their leader’s faults and possess a greater number of virtues, including a belief in the doctrines of grace. Can they then be described as Wesley’s followers?
On …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins, he pronounced it ‘barbarous’. Sir David Cecil tells us that the language of reconciliation is “in the blood-stained imagery originally used by some half-naked prophet to an Oriental tribe among the precipitous cliffs of a Syrian desert.’ Perhaps it is no wonder that many a pseudo-evangelical theologian has denied that reconciliation took place on the cross and looks upon it as a work of man’s agency in accepting the gospel. …
