… of Jim Packer, one of my first mentors in Christ, was a tragic move on the part of John Knox-like Martyn Lloyd Jones. It bordered on an excommunication and forced Jim to find his sphere of influence elsewhere with some drastic consequences. These consequences Robert Godfrey back-projects as the reason for the 1970 break-up.
This downgrading raises a major question not answered adequately by the Puritan Paper’s mixture of gold and dross, namely, who were the true Puritans? …
Posts Tagged Martyn Lloyd Jones
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… In his recommendatory foreword to J. H. Alexander’s fine book More than Notion, Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones relates how he advised his Westminster Chapel congregation to make this book on Huntingtonian piety compulsory reading. Lloyd-Jones thanked God for the book and said that the people he described “show the vital difference between a head-knowledge of the Christian faith and a true heart experience.” This was the essence of Huntington’s ministry.
… propaganda exercise. (Note debt to Derek)
The second version is that propagated by Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in his book The Puritans. Lloyd-Jones combines both the political and doctrinal aspects and sees a direct link between the troubles at Frankfurt and the Great Rebellion at the time of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. Though Knox paid only a relatively brief visit to Frankfurt, Lloyd-Jones makes Knox the leading political and religious rebel whose work at Frankfurt paved the way …
… demonstrated in my book Troublemakers at Frankfurt : A Vindication of the English Reformation, Lloyd-Jones lacks source-evidence for his revisionist opinions of these problems. The views of faithful steward Maidstone who stood for militant independency, must be regarded alongside views of staff and family members who did not. Lord Macaulay’s analysis of Cromwell’s character is not as thorough and harsh as Catherine Macaulay’s in her History of England, written two generations …
… of Spurgeon as they have unwittingly provoked criticism of other good men, not forgetting Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. This would be a back-firing, indeed. A few days ago, I received an article from a British Reformed magazine that did not so much criticise Iain for using Spurgeon as the soap with which to wash his dirty linen, but made an all out criticism of Spurgeon as if this one-off sermon was typical of h im . As Iain back-projected a modern controversy on Spurgeon , this …
… allegedly ‘Turkish’ robes. There is much of this narrow, nit-picking attitude revealed in Lloyd-Jones book The Puritans, one book which Gay has obviously read! Oddly enough, Gay does not criticise ‘the Doctor’ for the long robes he wore.
Neither Reformed nor Particular Baptist
Gay surprisingly claims to be a Reformed Particular Baptist. Reformed he cannot possibly be as he rejects the bulk of the Reformer’s works and witness. Nor can he be a Particular …
Robert Oliver on Huntington
Aug 15
… mud-level. The holy lives of a Rusk or a Brook or a Burrell leave him cold. Even the testimony of Lloyd-Jones fails to move him. Instead, as in the previous two Banner articles on Huntington, he brings long-refuted prejudices to bear which, to this writer, reflect a paucity of spiritual understanding, insight and experience which is terrible to behold. Oliver professes to be an expert on Huntington and to have studied him carefully. Huntington always taught people to study with their heads …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… (1771 -1824): God’s Tramp
Henry Bullinger (1504-1575): Shepherd of the Churches (I-II)
Henry Martyn (1781-1812): Pioneer Missionary
Herman Witsius (1636-1708): Man of the Covenant
Hugh Latimer (c. 1475-1555): Apostle Martyr of England
Increase Mather (1639-1723): 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 …
… in India, I have loved Carey. However, though a Sundkler, a Culross, a Myers, a Pearce Carey, a Jones, a Bullen, a Walker, a George and a Webber have written on Carey, the full, true life of this godly man has still to be portrayed. Carey himself protested that while his work was not yet done and it was far too soon to evaluate the overall impact of his mission, churches, denominations, missionary societies, political parties and philanthropic societies were already inventing ‘lives’ of …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… New England Divinity. Fullerism was combated in England by such stalwarts as John Stevens, J. A. Jones, William Gadsby and J. C. Philpot. Chandlerism and the New Divinity School have ceased to play their individual part in perverting the truth. Sadly, however, in recent years there has been a resurgence of Fullerism, combining both the European and North American aberrations, and this heresy is once more, threatening to overrun evangelical and Reformed Christianity.
Samuel Chandler`s …
