… Laudianism hook, line and sinker but gave their views new legitimacy by blaming Laud for being an Episcopalian. Though the Presbyterians claimed to bring back original Protestantism, the Puritan Anglicans demonstrated that the Presbyterians were re-introducing Rome. Presbyterian ecclesiology, orders and sacraments were certainly more papist than those of the Church they outlawed. After persecuting the Anglicans, the politically empowered intolerant Presbyterians and Congregationalists …
Posts Tagged Episcopalian
Apostate Church of England
Dec 17
Clifford on Hooker
Nov 12
… as testified at Dort, found strength in the preaching visits and writings of the English Episcopalian Reformers. Jewel’s Apologia pro ecclesia Anglicana, the forerunner of Hooker’s work, was a major force in the Continental Reformation.
… of the Lambeth, Thirty-Nine and Irish Articles; the forth was a comparison of Parliamentary anti-Episcopalian Laws during the Usurpation with the Anti-Conventicle Acts of the Restitution and the fifth was the methods used by Presbyterians, Independents and Baptists to fill the great spiritual gap left by the disestablishment of the Church of England and the outlawing of her clergy.
The ‘Scandalous Ministers’
Reading Congregationalist Daniel Neal’s account of the fate …
… by immersion inherited from the Novatianists. However, evidence to show that Novatian was not an Episcopalian is more than lacking. So, too, there is no evidence whatsoever that either the Novatianists or the Donatists practised believer’s baptism by immersion. Indeed, Novatian was baptised unsolicited in his sick-bed when his friends thought he was about to die. There is no evidence that he was a believer at the time and immersion, under the circumstances is highly unlikely and totally …
Are We Reformed?
Aug 21
… well, I am a Baptist, and the Baptist Churches are orthodox, therefore I am a Christian. I am an Episcopalian, and Episcopacy is one branch of Protestantism. Very well, I am a Protestant, I am a Christian.” But that is your carnal way of talking. You may be very grievously mistaken, if that is your argument. But can you go another way to work and say, ” I have received eternal life for I have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, and I am given of the Father unto him?” Why then, you come …
… are given fictive roles on an imaginary stage, using artificial scripts reminiscent of the Anti-Episcopalian, politico-religious debates of the Dissenting Revolution of 1640-60.
When Master of the Temple, Dr Richard Alvey became ill in 1581, Bishop John Aylmer suggested Travers should assist Alvey as a factotum on a small salary until Alvey could resume his office. When Alvey died in 1584, Travers’ post and livelihood were thus endangered. The procedure of nominating a …
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… Hooper, Latimer, Bradford, Nowell, Jewel, Parker, Grindal, Sandys, Abbott and Usher. Even later Episcopalian Puritans such as Perkins and Leighton contributed greatly to our understanding of election. An overview of Puritan teaching on election would have been helpful.
Jim Packer, on the witness of the Spirit in Puritan teaching, emphasises the inward testimony of the Spirit in the Christian’s life so that he is not only guided externally by the Spirit through the Word but …
