… robbed local churches of their sovereignty. An association of ministers who met regularly at a Coffee House, of all places, had set themselves up as joint-elders of the Particular Baptist churches in London claiming the sole right to ordain pastors and deacons. Indeed, an influential minority in the churches maintained that they had no rights of their own regarding the choosing of deacons as this was entirely the task of the Coffee House fraternal. In effect, what came to be known as the …
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… Oncken was arrested and fined several times. Oncken thus started an itinerant ministry, holding house meetings in an effort not to annoy the authorities. This proved impossible as once it was known that Oncken was preaching, each house in which he preached soon became over-crowded with visitors.
Five years after returning to Germany, Oncken became a citizen of Hamburg. He had opened a bookshop for the circulation of Bibles and sound literature and now realised that if he was to …
… done at Olney. The Dissenters here, most of them at least who are serious, forget that our Meeting House has a Steeple to it, and we that theirs has none. This shall be the Case universally, may the Lord hasten it in his time!
I am my dear Aunt your very affectionate Nephew
Wm Cowper (18th June, 1768.)
… caused Neander, Spener, Franke, Gerhardt and Bengel to model their own Bible studies, family and house worship on Mülheim lines. Of these, only Neander, converted under Undereyk, was Reformed, the others were highly influential Lutheran ministers, but of Reformed piety.
Alsace, where Arndt and Spener studied, had a thriving Reformed Church allied with the Zürich Reformation long before the Lutheran Augsburg Confession and both men were of this school doctrinally and …
The Problem of Fullerism
Aug 24
… and a testimony that we are now in those perilous times when judgement must begin at the house of God and even the righteous are scarcely saved (I Peter 4:17 ff.).
In the first section of the booklet under review, Paul Fahy clearly and accurately describes the follies of Fullerism and displays its wayward, deceitful and God-dishonouring gospel. He demonstrates succinctly how Fuller’s heretical views concerning faith, Scripture, atonement, justification, sin, …
… that he said concerning world-wide evangelism, “the time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.” 3 According to Pearce Carey, Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) related how some of the most respectable ministers thought that Carey’s ideas were ‘wild and impractical’. John Rippon (1750-1836) was most sceptical of Carey’s plans and even Ryland Jr, (1743-1825), Fuller and Samuel Pearce (1766-1799) only gave Carey full support in his enterprise some years later. …
… other. More ‘sects’ broke off both sides. Parmenian, the former man of peace, had Maximian’s house given over to heathen priests and levelled his former ‘brother’s church to the ground. Thousands of Donatists fled back to the Old School church who received them with open arms. Those who had not rebaptised were allowed to take up their pastoral functions but those who had rebaptised were given church membership but were refused pastorates as a disciplinary measure. There were no …
… the infant children of believers because God covenanted with those who said, “As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord”. Besides, the Catabaptist idea that baptism is a testimony of election accomplished and not salvation offered, leaves the Catabaptists claiming that they know God’s elect, a fact which only God knows. He believed that if the subjectivism of the Catabaptists were placed above the objective testimony of the Scriptures, there would be no standard of truth. …
… which raised a play-boy King to the throne and brought literature and language down to the bawdy-house floor was not to be tolerate long by Providence. Writers such as Addison and Young began to clean up the English language and the Church of England responded with a best-selling book called The Whole Duty of Man which taught the necessity of good conduct and respectability for right living. High moral principles were put forward as the mark of a Godly life but there was no Gospel in the …
… the mission but became insane and soon died.
The missionaries were able to purchase a very large house in the middle of the town with two acres of garden from the Governor’s nephew for £800. In no time, Ward had set up his press, sufficient paper was at hand and he began to print the Bengali Bible. Due to the generosity of the Danish King, the missionaries were able to add a school, a college, a hostel and private houses so that within a few years, the buildings alone of the mission …
