Posts Tagged George Mockford

Six Remarkables

… 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) planned a murder but found the Lord and first preached amongst the Wesleyans before becoming a champion of free and sovereign grace.

     We must thank Mr Ramsbottom for …

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George M. Ella

Historian, Author and Biographer

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E. T. Clifford on Doddridge

… 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 radically shortened in the American version. Nevertheless, this version still shows clearly that I look upon Doddridge as being ‘higher’ in his Calvinism than Gill on one …

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Mountain Movers’ Review

… (p 82) is astonishing,” astonished me as I did not claim this. I was soberly keeping to George Carleton’s report, not idea. Carleton was a delegate at the Synod of Dort and gave first-hand information of the curbs placed on Episcopacy by the political situation on the Continent at the time. There is an interpretative difference between the eye-witness, matter-of-fact account I gave and Mr Wilson’s emotive representation of it.

     Mr Wilson’s disagreement concerning the …

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B O T Schleiermacher and British Liberalism

… outpouring of the Spirit with Reformed, Lutheran and Baptist believers joining hands and hearts.

George M. Ella, Mülheim

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Banner on Hypers

… myself are not too old to learn and grow in grace and the knowledge of our Saviour.

In Christ

George M. Ella

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Iain Murray’s Controversy

… this error corrected in your magazine at the earliest possible opportunity.

Yours in Christ,

George M. Ella

     (Iain Murray replied personally, denying that the men I mentioned were contemporaries of Huntington as their dates did not exactly (sic) overlap. However, he had got their dates wrong. I corrected his mistakes and sent Mr Murray some 35 names of 18th century ministers from various denominations who supported Huntington and of whom I approved. I requested him to print …

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Reply to Tony Bickley

… to Christ was his own sin and the righteousness imputed to sinners is their own righteousness.

George M. Ella, Mülheim

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Lecture Subjects

… (1739-1805): A Calvinistic Methodist

First Millennium Witnesses of the Doctrines of Grace

George Abbot (1562-1633): England’s Righteous Counsellor

George Herbert (1593-1633): Pastor and Poet of God’s Temple

Hannah More (1745-1833): The Woman who Stopped a Revolution

Hans Nielsen Hauge (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 …

E C Applying Scripture Relevantly

… nations, indeed the whole earth, as Revelation 18 informs us, shall be lightened with His glory.

George M. Ella, Mülheim

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