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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 Light of Ireland
Jan Laski (1499-1560): The Pan-European Reformer
Johann Gerhard Oncken (1800-1884): Germany’s Baptist …
Posts Tagged Martyr
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Reformers such as Jewel, Lever, Latimer, Coverdale, Cox, Grindal, Bullinger, Bucer and Peter Martyr, pillars of the Church of England, were most strong on doctrine, especially concerning the Word of God and those beliefs commonly called Calvinism. Many of these Reformers were Calvinists before Calvin. They were also almost untouched by secular politics, believing in the separation of Parliament and Church. Many Puritans failed to keep up the freshness and first love of the Reformation, …
Men Not Gods
Sep 9
… them. Furthermore, Rutherford is treated by Antinomian politico-religious extremists as a saintly martyr for being punished for crimes condemned by all civilized societies though Rutherford’s own case-law justice was arbitrary and merciless. When Cromwell’s Westminster Assembly sat, each member had Rutherford’s Lex Rex in his hands. This first major work of the Enlightenment, published 150 years before Tom Paine’s similar ideas, makes Hobbes’ Leviathan seem like an evangelical …
Letter on Atonement
Dec 28
… to liberty and reconciled unto the favour of God, and set at one with him again.” Fellow-martyr Philpot uses the term in his translation of Coelio Secundo Curio’s Defence of Christ’s Church where the author is arguing that there cannot be any unity between a false and true church. “What concord”, he says, “either what atonement (as very well speaketh Paul), is there betwixt light and darkness, betwixt Christ and Belial, betwixt the faithful and unfaithful?” Curione is …
Welcome
Aug 17
… Here I can mention Doctor Profundus Thomas Bradwardine, Bible translator Miles Coverdale and Martyr saint Hugh Latimer. The list of such names is very long and modern research is merely scratching on the surface of the great work of God done in Reformation times.
However, I do not wish to neglect the great Continental Reformers such as Jan Hus, Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Bucer and Henry Bullinger, men of God without whom Calvin would have perhaps never have been won over by Calvinism and …
Welcome
Aug 17
… Here I can mention Doctor Profundus Thomas Bradwardine, Bible translator Miles Coverdale and Martyr saint Hugh Latimer. The list of such names is very long and modern research is merely scratching on the surface of the great work of God done in Reformation times.
However, I do not wish to neglect the great Continental Reformers such as Jan Hus, Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Bucer and Henry Bullinger, men of God without whom Calvin would have perhaps never have been won over by Calvinism and …
… most Christians accepted martyrdom as the seed of the church, others went further and looked on a martyr’s death as a baptism of blood and a better substitute for water-baptism, leading to a higher form of holiness. The church thus became divided amongst those who felt death by martyrdom was essential to the life of the church and those who maintained that martyrdom, as a last display of good works, was of no avail. The followers of a man called Donatus emphasised the duty of all Christians …
… was less than half-hearted, many left for Strassburg with its Reformed Marin Bucer and Peter Martyr connections and finally to Frankfurt where Charles V had offered the exiles the freedom of the city, later adding the proviso that they took on Frankfurt citizenship, paid taxes and took up occupations. As there seemed no hope of return, Mary being young, such stalwarts as Coverdale, Grindal, Sandys and Fox decided that a future in Frankfurt was possible. Incidentally, these men were all …
Cox and Knox
Nov 3
… the Reformed character of the Anglicans at Frankfurt and we have the testimonies of Bullinger, Martyr, Calvin, Beza and Gualter etc. to back this up.
The 1575 documents, though initially critical of Cox, nevertheless, present him as one who sought for peace rather than discord and one who was prepared to accept any truly Reformed order of worship, including the Geneva model, to that end. Even William Whitingham who supported Knox against the Anglican Reformers until he went too …
Cox and Knox
Nov 3
… the Reformed character of the Anglicans at Frankfurt and we have the testimonies of Bullinger, Martyr, Calvin, Beza and Gualter etc. to back this up.
The 1575 documents, though initially critical of Cox, nevertheless, present him as one who sought for peace rather than discord and one who was prepared to accept any truly Reformed order of worship, including the Geneva model, to that end. Even William Whitingham who supported Knox against the Anglican Reformers until he went too …
