… of Jim Packer, one of my first mentors in Christ, was a tragic move on the part of John Knox-like Martyn Lloyd Jones. It bordered on an excommunication and forced Jim to find his sphere of influence elsewhere with some drastic consequences. These consequences Robert Godfrey back-projects as the reason for the 1970 break-up.
This downgrading raises a major question not answered adequately by the Puritan Paper’s mixture of gold and dross, namely, who were the true Puritans? …
Posts Tagged Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… In his recommendatory foreword to J. H. Alexander’s fine book More than Notion, Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones relates how he advised his Westminster Chapel congregation to make this book on Huntingtonian piety compulsory reading. Lloyd-Jones thanked God for the book and said that the people he described “show the vital difference between a head-knowledge of the Christian faith and a true heart experience.” This was the essence of Huntington’s ministry.
… propaganda exercise. (Note debt to Derek)
The second version is that propagated by Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in his book The Puritans. Lloyd-Jones combines both the political and doctrinal aspects and sees a direct link between the troubles at Frankfurt and the Great Rebellion at the time of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. Though Knox paid only a relatively brief visit to Frankfurt, Lloyd-Jones makes Knox the leading political and religious rebel whose work at Frankfurt paved the way …
… demonstrated in my book Troublemakers at Frankfurt : A Vindication of the English Reformation, Lloyd-Jones lacks source-evidence for his revisionist opinions of these problems. The views of faithful steward Maidstone who stood for militant independency, must be regarded alongside views of staff and family members who did not. Lord Macaulay’s analysis of Cromwell’s character is not as thorough and harsh as Catherine Macaulay’s in her History of England, written two generations …
… of Spurgeon as they have unwittingly provoked criticism of other good men, not forgetting Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. This would be a back-firing, indeed. A few days ago, I received an article from a British Reformed magazine that did not so much criticise Iain for using Spurgeon as the soap with which to wash his dirty linen, but made an all out criticism of Spurgeon as if this one-off sermon was typical of h im . As Iain back-projected a modern controversy on Spurgeon , this …
Robert Oliver on Huntington
Aug 15
… mud-level. The holy lives of a Rusk or a Brook or a Burrell leave him cold. Even the testimony of Lloyd-Jones fails to move him. Instead, as in the previous two Banner articles on Huntington, he brings long-refuted prejudices to bear which, to this writer, reflect a paucity of spiritual understanding, insight and experience which is terrible to behold. Oliver professes to be an expert on Huntington and to have studied him carefully. Huntington always taught people to study with their heads …
… allegedly ‘Turkish’ robes. There is much of this narrow, nit-picking attitude revealed in Lloyd-Jones book The Puritans, one book which Gay has obviously read! Oddly enough, Gay does not criticise ‘the Doctor’ for the long robes he wore.
Neither Reformed nor Particular Baptist
Gay surprisingly claims to be a Reformed Particular Baptist. Reformed he cannot possibly be as he rejects the bulk of the Reformer’s works and witness. Nor can he be a Particular …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… (1771 -1824): God’s Tramp
Henry Bullinger (1504-1575): Shepherd of the Churches (I-II)
Henry Martyn (1781-1812): Pioneer Missionary
Herman Witsius (1636-1708): Man of the Covenant
Hugh Latimer (c. 1475-1555): Apostle Martyr of England
Increase Mather (1639-1723): Relater of God’s Illustrious Providences
Isaac McCoy (1784-1846): Apostle of the Western Trail
James Hervey (1713-1758): The Prose Poet
James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888): The Forgotten Baptist
James Usher (1580-1656): The …
E. T. Clifford on Doddridge
Aug 22
Sir:
In his recent ET article defending saintly Doddridge against adverse criticism, Dr. Clifford ended by stating,
“Even more at odds with the facts, Dr George Ella asserts that Doddridge’s Calvinism was ‘higher’ than Dr John Gill’s!”
This is incorrect. My original ET article (Feb. 1995), including Doddridge’s balanced analysis of Calvinism, which I share, was …
My reason for publishing this account of William Carey and his Indian mission on my website.
On 18-21 February, 2010 a conference will be held at Muscle Shoals, Alabama under the theme ‘The Quagmire of Hyper-Calvinism’ . The key speaker will be Dr. Michael Haykin who will lecture on Andrew Fuller as a missionary pioneer. The myth that Andrew Fuller pioneered a missionary movement is …
