… His stammering stopped suddenly on his first preaching engagement and he never stammered again! Edward Samuel (1812-1896), a Jew, ran away from persecution in Russian Poland when a young boy and after the most horrifying adventures came to England to find his Messiah. George Mockford (1826-1899) was a poor shepherd boy who kept off starvation by stealing turnips, raiding orchards and eating rats. How he came to be a minister of the word is a miracle in itself. Robert Moxon (1840-1906) …
Posts Tagged Edward Samuel
To Honour God
Aug 17
… to us by historians and theologians alike have contained far more warts than those revealed in Samuel Cooper’s famous portrait of England’s Lord Protector. Mrs Macaulay, they say, proved in her History of England, that the idol, which seemed to be of gold, was a wooden one. William Cowper confessed to John Newton that he was astonished that people could be so blind as to imagine that ‘the crafty nave’ and ‘tyrant’, Cromwell, could be mistaken for a true patriot. Challenging …
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… of the Reformed Church of England, in their efforts to discredit him, were persecuting his son Samuel, and his fellow-reformer Lawrence Humphrey, President of Samuel’s college, Magdalan, he protested at their puritanising of externals instead of preserving Christian doctrinal and spiritual norms, exclaiming:
“I marvel the more what turbulent genius has so inspired these factius puritans, that violating the laws of gratitude, scorning my letters and prayer to them, despising the …
… Calvinistic Presbyterians and Independents ought to have honoured for that fact alone. So, too, Samuel Ward and Scotsman Walter Balcanqual who represented Britain at Dort were severely persecuted, Balcanqual to death. Synod of Dort man Bishop Davenant, one of the finest Reformed men any church has ever had, saw the writing on the wall but died shortly before the persecutions started. His equally Reformed family, which included Edward Davenant and Church Historian Thomas Fuller, were either …
… the go-ahead from Jonathan Edwards, hence their nick-name. However, they drew conclusions from Edward’s highly philosophical view of man, that were wildly speculative. This was particularly the case regarding man’s supposed ‘natural’ and ‘moral’ attributes. Joseph Bellamy (1719-90), Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803), Jonathan Edwards Jr. (1745-1801), Nathaniel Emmons (1745-1801) and Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) popularised themselves with such catch-phrases as ‘true religion …
A lone 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 …
Men Not Gods
Sep 9
… had become corrupt and the rebellion of Oliver Cromwell and the Enlightenment philosophy of Samuel Rutherford put England back on the Reformation path.
Men of Two Natures
Sir: Both Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Rutherford were not gods but men of two natures. Today, Protestants are re-discovering Cromwell ‘warts and all’ and are beginning to realise that Rutherford had a similar verrucosis. Indeed, the political and religious carbuncles that Cromwell had were …
… It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.
G. M. Ella
Fuller and Evangelism
Aug 21
… It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.
… It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.”
G. M. Ella
