… Eighteenth Century Began
The controversy really began with the publication in 1755 of James Hervey’s Theron and Aspasio. Hervey had been a pupil of John Wesley’s at Oxford and was one of the very earliest pioneers of the Evangelical Revival. Balleine, the church historian, tells us that Hervey’s parish, Weston Favell, near Northampton, was the first Evangelical parish in the Midlands. Hervey produced a series of books aimed at the academic reader and men of letters, …
Posts Tagged James Hervey
Christian Bennett’s Review
Aug 15
… of cheek. Apparently this is the done thing. At least Brother Bennett has read a page of my Hervey, though he has got all his facts terribly wrong and appears totally out of his depth in understanding and discussing basic doctrines. What times we are living in! I recently did a review for an American magazine and was told by the editor that he rarely received reviews like mine which showed that the reviewer had read the book. I would consider it a shameful thing to present shoddy …
Iain Murray’s Controversy
Dec 15
… and books on 18th century evangelicals of all denominations such as Cotton Mather, John Gill, James Hervey, William Romaine, William Cowper, Risdon Darracot and Philip Doddridge will know how utterly untrue your statement is. I would like to see this error corrected in your magazine at the earliest possible opportunity.
Yours in Christ,
George M. Ella
(Iain Murray replied personally, denying that the men I mentioned were contemporaries of Huntington as their dates did …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Relater of God’s Illustrious Providences
Isaac McCoy (1784-1846): Apostle of the Western Trail
James Hervey (1713-1758): The Prose Poet
James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888): The Forgotten Baptist
James Usher (1580-1656): The Light of Ireland
Jan Laski (1499-1560): The Pan-European Reformer
Johann Gerhard Oncken (1800-1884): Germany’s Baptist Pioneer
John Albert Bengel (1687-1752): The Father of Modern Biblical Scholarship (I-II)
John Brine (1703-1765) and His Contemporaries (I.II)
John …
… Presbyterian Twisse nevertheless defended as did also Anglican preachers of righteousness such as James Hervey. All this led Toplady in his The Church of England Vindicated and his diaries to argue that Justification from Eternity was true Anglican doctrine.
… for historical accuracy and true balance is seen further, for instance, in his attitude to King James and Daniel Featley. The author spends page after page belly-aching nauseatingly on the seamy side of his ‘Liar King’, and even gives us intimate details of how James relieved his bladder during a hunt. Apart from the fact that much of Gay’s criticism of James is a snobbish and over-prudish criticism of James’ age from Gay’s most slanted legal hindsight, that which Gay criticises …
Welcome
Aug 17
… Calvin himself. One can also add to this list William Romaine, Augustus Toplady, Robert Traill, James Hervey, William Huntington and all those of like calibre who are now frowned on by our Reformed Establishment, though they were pillars of the faith and men who moved mountains in their day.
A second aim of this web site is to introduce readers to some of God’s servants who, though convinced, sturdy Christians, allowed their zeal in God’s Providence to lead them from Gospel truths and …
Books
Aug 21
… Publications.
1996, Law and Gospel in the Theology of Andrew Fuller, Go Publications.
1997, James Hervey: Preacher of Righteousness, Go Publications.
1998, John Gill and Justification from Eternity, Go Publications.
1998, Weighed in the Balance (The Doctrines of Grace vs. Fullerism ), The Huntington Press.
1998, John Gill and Justification from Eternity, A Tercentenary Appreciation 1697-1997, Go Publications.
1999, Mountain Movers: Champions of the Faith, Go …
Links
Aug 20
James Dickson Books
Christian Bookshop Ossett
New Focus
Hall of Church History
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… bigotry is shown in Naylor’s handling of the deep friendship of Ryland with Anglican James Hervey as if Hervey gave Ryland an inferiority complex for being a mere Dissenter. This is an insult to both men. Here, references of Hervey and Toplady to Ryland are totally misapplied and given a faulty context. Naylor rightly highlights Ryland’s double calling as a teacher and preacher-pastor but believes he neglected the latter in his final years after 1785, claiming “The holy …
