… silence.
Mr Hind’s prejudiced reading has missed my point concerning whether John, James or Julius Bate was ‘Uncle Jack’. My footnote points out the difficulties involved as the biographical details appear to fit neither. Mr Hind, boasting that this is ‘a small difficulty’, opts for John but submits neither biographical nor etymological evidence. He calls it ‘a small point’, but makes his mis-applied hunch his yardstick for discrediting my entire book. The …
Posts Tagged James Usher
… On the other hand, if we turn to the older English and Irish Reformers from John Wycliffe to James Usher, and include the above mentioned Bucer and Bullinger, we find them building their Articles, Catechisms and Homilies on the doctrines of grace which were solidly Calvinistic before ever Calvin came on the scene or gained widespread influence.
This year is Bullinger’s 500 years anniversary. He had already earned the grand names of Shepherd of All the Churches and Father …
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 …
… to church rites and not merely by a secular officer. When Cromwell insisted that Archbishop Usher should be buried in Westminster Abbey for propaganda purposes, and not in a private chapel as planned, he also insisted that Usher’s friends footed the bill. One of Cromwell’s own Prayerbook-loving daughters was led to believe that if she funded £600 towards the burial she would receive a government grant for the money as this was the procedure regarding non-Anglican, state burials. …
Portraits of Faithful Saints
Aug 18
… and well of Continental giants such as Voetius, Cocceius and Kuyper, the entire reigns of James I and Charles I are left out as far as England goes. Carleton, Ward, Davenant and Hall, great men of the Synod of Dort and thus the backbone of Reformation theology, are overlooked. Usher and Featley are left unmentioned. Hanko should know that the Reformed Church of England’s criticism of the would-be Presbyterians and Separatists were that they were departing from the doctrines of …
Links
Aug 20
James Dickson Books
Christian Bookshop Ossett
New Focus
Hall of Church History
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… tripping over their own flag. Cromwell’s surrogate church was certainly not as reformed as Usher’s Church of Ireland.
Mountain Movers’ Review
Aug 21
… Presbyterians and Separatists.
Concerning Mr Wilson’s strong criticism of King James, and the wish that he had been given more space in my book, I can only say that James was not one of my mentors and I only referred to him when he came into their stories and when he played a most positive role and certainly did not act the fool, as Mr. Wilson suggests. Mr Wilson, whom I believe is a Scotsman, will remember that when James visited Scotland with Andrewes, Hall and Abbot, he …
John Overall not an Arminian
Dec 27
… (1559-1618) was long dead by 1625, the year of Charles I’s accession, and as Mr Loh returns to James I in the same paragraph, the reference must be to Overall during the earlier reign of James.
Overall deserves to be remembered for his part in the Hampton Court Conference, whose 40oth anniversary we are remembering this year, and for his part in the production of the King James’ Bible. Overall is often made to wear the dunce’s cap in the Arminian Corner but his history …
… 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 …
