Hawker’s Guidebooks to Zion
Genesis 33:12
Robert Hawker (1753-1827) combined sound Biblical doctrine with intense evangelistic fervour. Wherever he ministered, crowds longing to hear the Word of Life thronged to hear him. Hawker preached with great feeling and compassion because he knew that his labour was not in vain and God’s Word never failed in its purpose. Some years ago, longing …
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Hawker’s Guidebooks to Zion
Aug 24
… believed by Dr. Haykin and his circle but the Baptist Missionary Society Fuller helped to found came at the rear end of a long line of Christian missionary organisations whether church based or, like the BMS, a para-church movement. Andrew Fuller was not the instigator of this missionary society but William Carey who urged the Baptists to act as other churches and nations had been acting for centuries. When Carey reached India, he had more support from Continental missionary …
… peace for fugitives from the Americo-Franco-British wars and it persuaded many wealthy investors to settle there. More missionaries were urgently needed as Brunsdon soon died of a liver complaint. Fountain, who was doing pioneer work at Dinapoor, also died after a short illness. Thomas rejoined the mission but became insane and soon died.
The missionaries were able to purchase a very large house in the middle of the town with two acres of garden from the Governor’s nephew for £800. In …
… between Gill’s ‘free declaration of peace and pardon, righteousness, life and salvation to poor sinners’ and the ‘free offer’ and ‘duty faith’ of those who deny outright that Gill appealed to all men everywhere to repent and believe the gospel? The difference is that Gill keeps to the gospel as fulfilling what the law could not do, namely provide ‘free grace’. Modern harsh critics of Gill such as friends of the Banner of Truth and Reformation Today, cannot give up …
… is exhibited by a symbol.” 1
There are several problems of interpretation attached to this very Arminian statement. It is not our faith in Christ that washes away sin but the objective fact that Christ has washed away our sins independent of our prior faith and He has given us faith to accept and believe this. The fact that we are made partakers in the death of Christ is not due to our belief but due to Christ’s saving work in which He has graciously included us. The problem …
Clifford’s New Reformation
Dec 11
… for whom Christ died is redeemed, justified and sanctified in one synergistic action, impossible to be divided. The corollary to Clifford’s Hyper-Amyraldian idea of atonement is thus his faulty view of justification and sanctification. Clifford rejects our Reformers’ doctrine of justification with its causative meaning ‘to make just’. He then takes only one of numerous Biblical words for justification, ‘ dikaioo ’, and limits its blessed, multiple meanings to a mere ‘declare …
To Honour God
Aug 17
To Honour God: The Spirituality of Oliver Cromwell (134 pages)
Classics of Reformed Spirituality Series Edited and introduced by Michael A. G. Haykin.
The pimples and warts of the Protector
The editor opens up this fine little book by explaining that Cromwell (1599-1658) liked to have his portrait painted with all his “roughness, pimples, warts and everything.” History has …
Reply to Tony Bickley
Dec 31
Sir:
Tony Bickley accuses me of being controversial over a point entirely foreign to me, leaving me puzzled at his logic and reasoning. He concludes from my repeated claim that Christ in His human nature was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin, that I teach that the Sinless One was a sinner. Furthermore, he concludes from my belief that Christ became sin on our behalf that I teach that this sin was Christ’s own and not Brother Bickley’s sin and mine. Moreover, …
Reply to Philip Hoskins
Dec 16
One letter to the English Churchman amongst several concerning whether Jews who become Christians remain Jewish.
Sir:
Recently whilst checking through my namesakes in Jerusalem, I came across a young Russian who sheepishly told me that he was a new convert to the Jewish faith and had taken on the name of Ella because it sounded ethnically Jewish. The provocative caption which shocked …
… that there are no ecclesiastical, political or constitutional grounds for assuming Elizabeth II to be that church’s Supreme Governor.
At the Elizabethan Settlement, Cox, Sandys, Grindal etc. persuaded Elizabeth I to drop the title of Supreme Head formerly held by her father and half-sister. Instead, she was advised to adopt the title of Supreme Governor of the Realm. This title was later confirmed, not by the Queen herself, nor by Convocation, which was not consulted, but by …
