… and defended by the Puritans. Crisp found these new religions false as they did not exalt Christ.
Entering the ministry as an unconverted man
This ‘holy and judicious’ person, as Augustus Toplady describes Crisp, was born into a family of London sheriffs and aldermen and was educated at Eton, Cambridge and Oxford, finishing his studies by gaining a D.D.. He married Mary Wilson, an Alderman’s daughter, and the couple were blessed with thirteen children. He was …
Posts Tagged Christ Alone Exalted
For Whom did Christ Die?
Oct 5
Nowadays we are assailed from all sides with the novel and un-Biblical doctrine that Christ actually died to atone for all sinners, though this atonement is only a theoretical provision to be made good by the agency of man. Such a teaching is called Theoretical Universalism and such a teaching is demonstrably false. This teaching does not distinguish between the state of man before the fall and his state after the fall, viewing all men as on probation, like Adam, until they …
… one gains the impression that it is now fashionable to discuss the limitations of the Manhood of Christ and His alleged cooperation in a gigantic hoax whereby the Father and the Son worked out what their proponents call a ‘forensic’ method of freeing sinners from the wages of sin without really doing it in practice. The text they build their opinions on is 1 Corinthians 5:21. “For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in …
… and alarmed to discover that I was the only correspondent who believed in the true manhood of Christ in His saving work. What sparked off the heated debate was the subject of Christ being tempted by the devil, (Matt. 4:1-11) and my co-correspondents were upset by my contributions to the discussion. I had based my stand on Hebrews 2:18, “For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted” and Hebrews 4:15, “For we have not an high priest …
… the various denominations in the town could live peacefully together sharing a great oneness in Christ. Cowper, writing to Mrs Madan, says:
We have had a Holiday Week at Olney. The Association of Baptist Ministers met here on Wednesday. We had three Sermons from them that day, and One on Thursday, besides Mr. Newton’s (Anglican minister) in the Evening. One of the Preachers was Mr. Booth, (Abraham Booth (1734-1806) was to become the pastor of a Calvinistic Baptist Church at Little …
… of Knollys. We find that he joined ‘the fledgling Calvinist Baptist cause’ and proved his Christ-centred spirituality in a sermon entitled Christ Exalted. Knollys was led to pastor a London congregation, drawing some 1,000 hearers. The work in which Knollys played a key part is described by Haykin as ‘a harvest-time for the Calvinistic Baptists’ without further comment.
Now Knollys’ dealings with the Seekers is outlined in which he lays down sound Scriptural rules …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… their theories along lines of general fashion. One generation chooses to challenge the Sonship of Christ whereas another generation fixes its doubting gaze on the work of the Spirit. In one age it is fashionable to be social-minded, another age chooses to be ascetic and turn its back on the world with all its responsibilities. Modern critics have become more sophisticated and analytical and, professing to be within the church rather than without, they are focusing their gaze on the very …
Robert Williams on Wycliffe
Dec 19
… conversion, justification and sanctification from each other as they were all the one result of Christ’s atoning death. Lechler/Green, in their lack of theological acumen, spread the myth that Wycliffe ‘confused’ the one with the other. Justification by faith alone does not mean that faith is to be considered alone without reference to, say, good works. Nor does it mean that justification stands alone separated from election, calling, forgiveness, conversion and sanctification. …
… in which the civil power shall be entirely and absolutely of his own opinions; the King, as ‘Christ’s silly vassal’ to quote Andrew Melville, being obedient to such prophets as himself. The theories of Knox regarding the duty to revenge God’s feud by the private citizen, and regarding religious massacre by the civil power, ideas which would justify the Bartholomew horrors, appear to be forgotten in modern times.” 5
Those who support the Lloyd-Jones version make the …
… stages from eternity into time. Our Reformers accounted the elect just before God in union with Christ from eternity by having Christ’s righteousness first imputed to them and then made conscious in them through God-given faith. This Tyndale taught in Pathway to the Holy Scriptures and Prologue to Romans. The Anglican Homily on Justification stresses that “justification is the office of God alone, and is not a thing which we render unto Him, but which we receive of Him.” For …
