… at Dort. This was especially the position of England’s major Continental advisers, Bullinger, Gualter, Beza and Calvin. The break-up of the Church of England was not through the desires of her Reformed/Puritan members of Calvin’s day but through the tyrannical outlawing of the Church a century later by military usurpers who denounced the rule of the Church by the Church (Convocation) and made their ‘Model Church’ a puppet of their ‘Model Parliament’. This reversed the …
Posts Tagged Gualter
Clifford on Schism
Oct 24
… the Continent, especially the Calvinistic, and accused the ultra-puritans (as Bullinger, Calvin, Gualter, Beza, Foxe, Jewel, Grindal and Whitgift had done) of leaving such paths. A compromise was attained regarding Confirmation. Local pastors should catechize the Confirmation candidates and test their faith before inviting the bishop to take the actual confirmation ceremony. All agreed to remove all symptoms of profanation from the Lord’s Day. The King requested that all that was …
Henry Bullinger (1504-1575)
Aug 17
… large family himself, but set an example by adopting at least two youngsters. One of these, Rudolf Gualter, became Bullinger’s successor and married Zwingli’s daughter. Bullinger pioneered theological seminaries in the fifteen twenties. England had to wait until the late 40s, Germany the late 50s and Geneva the 60s.
The Second Helvitic Confession
Bullinger’s best known work is undoubtedly his Second Helvetic Confession. Elector Friedrich III of the Palatine had left …
Cox and Knox
Nov 3
… of the Anglicans at Frankfurt and we have the testimonies of Bullinger, Martyr, Calvin, Beza and Gualter etc. to back this up.
The 1575 documents, though initially critical of Cox, nevertheless, present him as one who sought for peace rather than discord and one who was prepared to accept any truly Reformed order of worship, including the Geneva model, to that end. Even William Whitingham who supported Knox against the Anglican Reformers until he went too far, wrote:
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Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… golden age of the English church, Continental Reformers such as Bucer, Calvin, Martyr, Bullinger, Gualter and Zanchy, and after a while, even Beza, joined hands with the Reformed Church of England in condemning their practices.
When John Foxe found that these Precisian enemies 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 …
The Synod of Dort
Aug 17
… credentials and learning. Equal to them was the representative for the Church of Scotland, Gualter (Walter) Balcanqual, Fellow of Pembroke College. Hall became ill during the Synod and was replaced by Abbot’s chaplain, Thomas Goad, a man well-known for preaching against Pelagianism. Presbyterian Prof. Miller of Princeton wrote of these British representatives:
“It would have been difficult to select men of more respectable character for talents, learning, piety, and …
