… and Andrew Fuller
Part I
The work of the Banner of Truth Trust proved a great encouragement in my spiritual development and I became an enthusiastic reader of their magazine from its start. Throughout the following years, especially during the seventies and eighties, I was able to break away from my work in Sweden and Germany to attend those inspiring Leicester Conferences which blessed the soul of so many pastors and teachers and gave them a love for Reformed …
Posts Tagged Great Eastcheap
… access to a wider field of hearers, denominational leaders begged him to give a weekly lecture at Great Eastcheap. This series, which was to last almost thirty years, was opened in 1729 by Gill preaching on Psalm 71:16, “I will go in the strength of the Lord God; I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.” Many of these sermons formed the basis of Gill’s fine book The Cause of God and Truth. The Great Eastcheap experiment proved a huge success and soon Baptists, …
Welcome
Aug 17
… as been lacking or poor. Here I include the English roots of the Continental Reformation, the great periods of freedom from Rome’s iron grip during Edward III’s reign and the period of the Great Usurpation and Ejection 1643-1660, this latter period being still perhaps the most neglected period in Church History.
My fourth and major aim is to inform my English-speaking brethren of the great personalities in their history who have long been left in the shadows in comparison to …
Joseph Kinghorn
Aug 17
… just cause to thank the Lord for such a faithful 18th century Baptist witness. The lives of the great Anglicans of by-gone years such as Hervey, Toplady, Whitefield and Venn are well-documented and researched but there is a dire lack of information on their Dissenting brethren. This book will certainly help to fill this breach as Joseph Kinghorn (1766-1832) was a workman who had no cause to be ashamed. The fine way he was used by God as a preacher and writer of note has secured an important …
New Cowper Book
Aug 21
… ‘Life’ as an attempt to trace all the influences which God exercised on Cowper to make him the great poetical preacher of God’s Word, Works and Ways.
G. M. Ella, Mülheim
… saying that Cromwell ‘gave the rein to the fierce enthusiasm of his followers’, ‘left great cities without inhabitants’, ‘smote the idolaters (sic) with the edge of the sword,’ forced thousands to flee to the Continent and shipped thousands to the West Indies. He tells of great cities rid of every single inhabitant and their property and land given to English plunderers. Wow! Hill compares Cromwell’s ‘butchering’ of troops and civilians to Hiroshima. Wow again! …
… on the GS Articles, though it is nothing but an attack on the Gospel Standard Churches. This is a great pity for the book`s sake. I am not a member of the GS churches; nor even a Baptist, but I found the great bulk of extensive theology expressed in Gosden’s book, Biblical, refreshing and extremely relevant to our modern age. By not keeping to his subject, Mr Legg has missed the very teaching which might have cleared up his misunderstandings.
All Mr Legg’s difficulties cannot …
Christian Bennett’s Review
Aug 15
… Similarly, Bennett totally ignores the context in which I place Pink, i.e. Hervey’s great teaching on reconciliation. As I added an explanatory footnote to my comment on Pink on reconciliation and used my comments on page 332 to introduce Hervey’s own words on the subject, one wonders how Bennett can possibly have thought I was speaking about eternal justification. I certainly did not scold Pink for not believing that doctrine. For all I know, he probably did.
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… Olney shows how the various denominations in the town could live peacefully together sharing a great oneness in Christ. Cowper, writing to Mrs Madan, says:
We have had a Holiday Week at Olney. The Association of Baptist Ministers met here on Wednesday. We had three Sermons from them that day, and One on Thursday, besides Mr. Newton’s (Anglican minister) in the Evening. One of the Preachers was Mr. Booth, (Abraham Booth (1734-1806) was to become the pastor of a Calvinistic Baptist …
… which I could not fully develop through ill health. With brother Burrows’ help, however, this great truth has been re-affirmed, proving a fitting end to my series.
George M. Ella, Mülheim
