… campaigner for educational reform
Public School expert Edward C. Mack said the poet William Cowper was a lone voice in campaigning for reform in eighteenth century English schools 1 . This may surprise poetry lovers who have not yet discovered Cowper’s writings on education. Cowper’s most neglected long poem Tirocinium or a Review of Schools, for instance, deals in detail with educational reform. Parents thinking of home-schooling their children as a legal alternative …
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… own churches. 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.
Reflections on Some Recent Banner of Truth Criticisms Regarding William Huntington and Avarice
Aug 17
… pastored a number of churches on a sinecure basis which brought them in huge sums. Others such as Dr John Cowper, William Cowper’s father, combined his pastorate with a lucrative sinecure governmental position. Be that as it may, when the news of Huntington’s salary travelled through the London churches, pastored by ex-public school boys and university graduates who were often paid far less, criticism grew. How could an untrained labourer earn as much as a university graduate? Thomas …
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 superstitiously believed by Dr. Haykin and his …
… with the Kingdom of God established in his heart. What a change!
Taken from pp. 48-49, 52-54 in William Huntington: Pastor of Providence.
… absorbed into the British Empire and in 1800, Lord Wellesley, the Governor-General, founded Fort William College at Calcutta for the instruction of imperial civil servants. Chaplain David Brown, a faithful and energetic Anglican supporter of the Mission, was chosen by Wellesley as Provost. Brilliant scholars were appointed for the various posts and Brown insisted that Carey was the man most fitted to become Professor of Bengali as he had shown his academic abilities in his translation work …
… shall bear, but, by this freedom you have him to put his own shoulder to it to bear it up.”
Twisse and Hervey defend Crisp
Dr William Twisse (1575-1646), moderator of the Westminster Assembly of Divines and author of works on the Christian’s moral obligations, on hearing these serious rumours, made a special study of Crisp’s teaching and witness, finding him absolutely orthodox. He suggested that the only reason why Crisp was unpopular amongst ministers was ‘because so …
… Under the excellent Chairmanship of the Rev. B.G. Felce, the sessions commenced with the Rev. Dr. Edgar Dowse speaking on ‘The Enlightenment’. Brother Dowse celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday at the conference and he is second to none for his enormous Biblical acumen, wit, oratory and energy of delivery. Starting at the Restitution, Brother Dowse traced the development of the age of reason through Matthew Tindal, John Toland and Thomas Wolston, commenting on Bishop Butler’s …
Cromwell Queried
Aug 21
… Congregationalist and Baptists, Parliamentary documents and four major biographies. I also re-read Dr. Urwick’s brief biography of Howe, an avowed opponent of state-controlled religion whether Cromwellian or Stuart, and dipped into Howe’s six volumed works. The author-editor discussed the work with me on the friendliest terms per e-mail, and was most happy with the result as published and, indeed, asked me to do further work on behalf of Josuah Press.
Mr. Gellion quotes Dr. …
… Anglican orthodoxy expressed in Christian Liberty No Licentious Doctrine, which Presbyterian Twisse nevertheless defended as did also Anglican preachers of righteousness such as James Hervey. All this led Toplady in his The Church of England Vindicated and his diaries to argue that Justification from Eternity was true Anglican doctrine.
