… Fuller who responded as the Society’s spokesman. He believed that marriages ‘outside the Lord’ were null and void and a Christian had no responsibility in wedlock to an unbelieving husband or wife. According to George Smith, Fuller therefore advised the Mission that converted Indians should do all in their power to have their spouses worship with them but if this proved impossible after a reasonable period of time, they should divorce their spouses and be free to remarry. Oddly …
Posts Tagged Lord Wellesley
… forced to work with his Hands hitherto for the Maintenance of himself and a large Family. But the Lord who has given him excellent Endowments, has now called him from the small Congregation he minister’d to in Nottinghamshire, to supply Mr. Burford’s Place in London (Samuel Burford was pastor of a Calvinistic Baptist Church at Currier’s Hall, Cripplegate).
It was a comfortable Sight to see thirteen Gospel Ministers together. Most of them either Preach’d or Pray’d and All that …
… 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 Bible speaks of the Law of Moses and I would like us to stick to that terminology. …
Contra Knox
Aug 21
… acumen. Indeed, they argued that Knox’s ceremonial ideas, such as his manner of celebrating the Lord’s Supper, were based on a superstitious misunderstanding and misapplication of the historical account. Knox certainly also misapplied Mark 12:17 and Romans 13:1. On being called to pastor the Frankfurt church in 1554, Knox refused to administer the Lord’s Supper on grounds totally incompatible with Scripture and this, as also his intolerant bearing, caused those such as John Bale who had …
… years, was opened in 1729 by Gill preaching on Psalm 71:16, “I will go in the strength of the Lord God; I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.” Many of these sermons formed the basis of Gill’s fine book The Cause of God and Truth. The Great Eastcheap experiment proved a huge success and soon Baptists, Anglicans and Independents were subscribing to hire other halls so that Gill could give regular lectures there.
Contemporary evangelical authors …
What is a Baptist?
Aug 21
… to require water baptism as an expression of their belief in saving faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ given to them as a gracious act of God.
After over six months of fellowship within the symposium, I find that my simple view is hardly accepted by any member of the various Baptist churches represented in the symposium. The matter appears to be much more complicated according to the majority’s view which I find very confusing. It appears that the general consensus …
Contra Amyraldianism
Aug 21
… (known as Peter to us) action in throwing out the net and finding only those fish in it which the Lord Admiral pre-selected. On his starboard side he affirms that Petty-Admiral Amyraldus dined solely on Dordrecht maatjesharing (Raw, filleted maiden herrings. ‘Lekker’ as my Dutch First Mate would say.). This all smells a bit fishy to me! Rear-Admiral Davenant would turn in his locker! My counter-strategy is single and comprehensive. Peter’s particular fish are not to be nosed-turned-up …
… filthiness and be given a clean heart and a right spirit. This is because he is love-sick for the Lord Jesus Christ, by whom and for whom he was created and for whom he is now being re-created as a new creature in Christ who has become his Righteousness. This love, salvation and sanctification is for those who are bankrupt in themselves and have nothing to bring and nothing, not even promises of improvement, to offer. It is for the spiritual penniless – and those who have been given grace …
… differences regarding preaching and lecturing, public worship, predestination, justification, the Lord’s Supper, and the fate of those dying outside of the Protestant fold. Modern debates have turned the Temple Controversy into a discussion about the pros and cons of Presbyterianism and Episcopacy which were not even mentioned in the original debate. Sadly, history is rejected and Hooker and Travers are given fictive roles on an imaginary stage, using artificial scripts reminiscent of the …
