… Seaman, Marshall and Vines.
Wilson’s comparison of uncompromising Presbyterian Henderson with peace-loving Commonwealth critic Philip Henry is invalid. Henry wanted an end to the strife, persecution and slaughter which Henderson viewed as spiritual cleansing. Henry was for a solution to the Commonwealth crisis uniting both sides; Henderson, a chief instigator of the crisis, preached absolute totalitarian intolerance. …
Posts Tagged Henderson
Demythologising History
Nov 9
Men Not Gods
Sep 9
… nature. If not, the Christian is free to murder him. Cromwell at first bowed to Rutherford’s and Henderson’s Radicalism and that scandalously intolerant, anti-Christian Solemn League and Covenant with its Trent-long anathema-list of punishments for non-acceptance. Mercifully, the Assembly’s seditious Counter-Reformation bubble burst but Cromwell’s equally evil purge of Presbyterianism began. Though Cromwell diplomatically rejected the crown, he was given full royal powers by the …
Portraits of Faithful Saints
Aug 18
… looking apon a certain organisational set up as being essential to salvation. Alexander Henderson and Samuel Rutherford are allowed to represent Scotland. True, Englishman William Ames (1576-1633) is portrayed, but he is introduced as Puritan in the Netherlands in the Continental section. Now, another bias of Hanko’s is shown. The author includes John Bunyan under the title The Author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, but besides Bunyan, never really accepted as ‘a Baptist’ by …
