… 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 suggests that this picture needs to be corrected. He followed Alexander Nowell as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1596. Nowell was a thorough-going Reformer, more Calvinistic than Calvin on justification, election and atonement, who loved the doctrines of grace. Whitgift made …
Posts Tagged King James’ Bible
John Overall not an Arminian
Dec 27
… 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 …
Mountain Movers’ Review
Aug 21
… and certain 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 …
The Synod of Dort
Aug 17
… therefore the British delegates did not represent their churches but were mere diplomats of their King. This interpretation would disqualify all the delegates as all invitations were sent out to the rulers of all the participating nations, whether monarchies, dukedoms or republics.
Redressing the historical balance
Knowledge of other important factors has faded in recent years and we must go back to the original documents and the contemporary evidence of historians such as …
Putting an End to Sin
Aug 21
… we miss a great blessing which he believes 1 John 2 cannot possibly give us as it stands in the King James Version. I must challenge Mr. Bayes’ logic here on both counts as he has not exhausted the meaning of I John 2 in any way but rather partly circumnavigated it and partly speculated loosely on it. Many of us neither believe in a universal propitiation nor in Mr. Bayes ‘proof’ against it, though we believe that the visible world also profits from Christ’s propitiating work. As to …
… seemed that both Church and State had succumbed to its whims.
A smuggler points Oncken to the Bible
Young Oncken was protected from this worldly atmosphere by the prayers and witness of his godly grandmother and the testimony of a neighbouring tailor, nicknamed ‘The Holy One’, because of his stalwart Christian witness. Though Oncken was baptised and confirmed in the Lutheran Church, this made no impression on his heart. God moves in mysterious ways and the next step in …
Portraits of Faithful Saints
Aug 18
… due prominence and rightly so. Yet Tyndale was not the first man to complete a translation of the Bible as Hanko states. He was martyred after only completing the New Testament and parts of the Old which he had translated with the help of Coverdale, and, some say, Luther. To Miles Coverdale (1488-1569) belongs this honour, yet Hanko ignores him.
When describing papist Charlemagne, whom Hank obviously admires, he is praised for his churchmanship and his nine divorces are not even …
… decision in eternity to ransom His people and give them faith to accept it ( Annotations on the King’s Book ; On Salvation ). Latimer taught that justification is through redemption testified to by Christ’s faith given to His elect ( Sermons ). Hooper argued that the faith of the justified rests on Christ’s previous justification of them. Faith is the gift of acceptance of what has already been wrought out. Hooper quotes Paul as saying “We are justified by faith, that is, we are …
… strong desire to reform public manners. The so-called Restoration period, which raised a play-boy King to the throne and brought literature and language down to the bawdy-house floor was not to be tolerate long by Providence. Writers such as Addison and Young began to clean up the English language and the Church of England responded with a best-selling book called The Whole Duty of Man which taught the necessity of good conduct and respectability for right living. High moral principles were …
Books
Aug 21
… Saved: William Huntington, S.S., (with Henry Sant). Two essays reprinted by courtesy of the Bible League Quarterly, Focus Christian Ministries Trust.
1993, William Cowper: Poet of Paradise , Evangelical Press.
1994, William Huntington: Pastor of Providence , Evangelical Press.
1995, John Gill and the Cause of God and Truth, Go Publications.
1996, Law and Gospel in the Theology of Andrew Fuller, Go Publications.
1997, James Hervey: Preacher of Righteousness, Go …
