The witness and teaching of Dr John Gill (1697-1771) so impressed his friends Augustus Toplady and James Hervey that they maintained his work would still be of great importance to future generations. This also became the conviction of John Rippon (1750-1836) and Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), Gill’s more well-known successors to his pastorate, but it was also the testimony of those who served for shorter periods at Carter Lane such as John Martin, …
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John Gill and His Successors
Aug 17
… carefully preserved and protected by Scotsman John Durie who was strongly supported by Laud in his efforts to form a pan-European United Reformed Church with bishops and elders as equals. In Laud’s works (7 vols 1847-1860), especially Contra Fisher, we find him a stauncher Protestant than our modern so-called ‘Reformed Presbyterians’ with their counter-reformed errors concerning Natural Theology, Atonement, Justification, Sanctification and Discipline. This is not to defend Laud but …
For Whom did Christ Die?
Oct 5
… false. This teaching does not distinguish between the state of man before the fall and his state after the fall, viewing all men as on probation, like Adam, until they reject or accept Christ. There are seven good reasons for rejecting this error:
1. The objects of redemption are the objects of God’s love
God has a special saving love which must be distinguished from His general, providential goodness to all men. God does not love all men savingly. For …
Come and Welcome Letter
Nov 11
… the Son”. He teaches that all those who God turns to himself are all those whom He has given to his Son and for whom He died. Bunyan explains that when the call to the sheep comes, they are made sensible and it is these ‘coming sinners’, drawn by God who will be received. Christ gives these sensible sinners ‘a glimpse of Himself’ and they ‘receive a kiss of the sweet lips of Jesus Christ’ and feel ‘the very warmth of His wings overshadowing” their souls.
Besides …
… by James P. Boyce and were not representative of the Southern Baptists. SB-rebel Jeff Pool in his Against Returning to Egypt, puts forward similar theories. My research into ante-bellum confessions shows that these modern critics are wrong. The Arminian Baptists were mostly in the North and their Free Will Baptist Faith was first published in 1869. The so-called ‘Original Free Will Baptists of the South’ slowly developed at the end of the nineteenth century in Kansas, Missouri, …
… in the Netherlands, was seriously, perhaps terminally, ill and could not open the conference with his usual soul-stirring preaching. A worthy substitute was quickly found in C. G. Vreugdenhil who, taking Peter and Paul as his models, emphasised the duties of an all-round pastor in preaching the law lawfully and grace graciously and finding a true harmony between personal Christian experience, including witness, and the faith once delivered to the saints.
After lunch, M.J. Kater …
… Christ had the right use of reason in mind when He promised that the Holy Spirit would come. In his Education of the Human Race, Lessing pointed out that by the aid of reason, man would go on to perfection and finally reach a state of being Christ-like. Many Christians accepted this philosophy, arguing that as it issued from the pens of practising Christians, it could not be wrong. Others, such as the poet William Cowper, saw through the faulty logic. If reason alone made gods out of men, …
… he lost a good job through refusing to work on the Sabbath. When I pointed out the anomaly in his own behaviour, the Sabbath-breaker told me sanctimoniously that it was honouring the Lord of the Sabbath that constituted keeping the Sabbath which did not rule out Sunday trading as such. This is the kind of hypocritical Antinomianism that Huntington abhorred.
Q. What then is your attitude to the Moral Law?
A. I do not like the term Moral Law as it smacks of Greek Idealism and Humanism. …
… the impression that it is now fashionable to discuss the limitations of the Manhood of Christ and His alleged cooperation in a gigantic hoax whereby the Father and the Son worked out what their proponents call a ‘forensic’ method of freeing sinners from the wages of sin without really doing it in practice. The text they build their opinions on is 1 Corinthians 5:21. “For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” We must …
… Philip Eveson, a Bible College Principal and reputed to be a Reformed man, proved a wolf in sheep’s clothing and openly declared himself to be a contender against the reformed faith. Radically denying the experimental, new-life-giving work of God in Justification so much emphasised by the New Testament writers and our Reformers, Eveson proclaimed that it was merely a legal, ‘as if’ act with no actual transforming of the sinner into a saint. Using the most inappropriate …
