Sir:
The letters from Messers Spanner and Buzzard concerning common grace reveal problems in defining and understanding the term. Mr Spanner refers to its non-saving scope, quoting John Murray in support. However, Murray disagrees radically with Spanner, seeing common grace as offering “nothing less than salvation in its richness and fullness.” Sir Anthony sets the scene entirely in a saving capacity and rebukes Calvin for not seeing …
Posts Tagged Mr Buzzard
Mountain Movers’ Review
Aug 21
… to read the positive reviews of my book The Mountain Movers in the English Churchman. Mr. Wilson’s kind remarks were particularly impressive, though he disagrees with some of my conclusions. Nevertheless, I was surprised to find myself censured, in a magazine with Evangelical Anglican traditions on the subject of Evangelical Anglicans, for believing that certain Presbyterian views of church order are not above criticism. When I portrayed my non-Anglican mentors, I was also …
Cromwell Queried
Aug 21
Dear Sir,
Regarding Mr. Gellion’s disapproval of my comments on To Honour God, sent to me by Michael Haykin for review.
I never review a book without doing the most minute research. This being a highly debatable subject, I re-consulted Cromwell’s writings, contemporary works of Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalist and Baptists, Parliamentary documents and four major biographies. I also …
Contra Knox
Aug 21
Sir,
It was refreshing and challenging to read Mr Wilson’s doughty Scot’s support of Knox though he has given both his countryman and myself the wrong-sized shoes. Furthermore, as Andrew Lang in his definitive work on Knox also says of his subject, Mr Wilson sails dangerously close to the wind in his historical analysis. Yet he calls me controversial! In such discussions, we must take into sympathetic account each other’s background. I …
… met here on Wednesday. We had three Sermons from them that day, and One on Thursday, besides Mr. Newton’s (Anglican minister) in the Evening. One of the Preachers was Mr. Booth, (Abraham Booth (1734-1806) was to become the pastor of a Calvinistic Baptist Church at Little Prescot Street, Goodman’s Fields some seven months later.) who has lately published an excellent Work called the Reign of Grace. He was bred a Weaver, and has been forced to work with his Hands hitherto for the …
… dishonesty against Calvinistic evangelists is an unhelpful argument from 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 …
Iain Murray’s Controversy
Dec 15
… exactly (sic) overlap. However, he had got their dates wrong. I corrected his mistakes and sent Mr Murray some 35 names of 18th century ministers from various denominations who supported Huntington and of whom I approved. I requested him to print the names as the BOT readers had been mistakenly misinformed and could now check my facts. Mr Murray refused to do this, preferring to leave BOT readers with the opinion that I denigrated all 18th century men of God. This is how these modern …
Sir:
In allaying Mr Relf’s fears regarding my research expressed in his April 5th article, I shall keep to the evidence he provides. Bishop Neill, though no authority on this period, confirms the persecuting nature of the times. The Cromwellian definition of ‘malignants, delinquents and scandalous ministers’ was that they refused to accept the disestablishing and disbanding of the Episcopal Church of …
Anglicans and Presbyterians
Aug 21
Dear Sir,
Despite Mr. Wilson firm recommendation, my books do not contain the subject matter he associates with them. However, it is fashionable to denigrate the Tudors and Stuarts and, as Hanko and Gay, and pronounce Anglican Reformers guilty by association. This argument would weigh equally on the Continentals who were patronised by the like-questionable Prince Maurice. Dutch Presbyterianism was the seat of …
… of the Cromwell ‘Get Rich Quickly’ Merciless Slaughter in Ireland.
Sir:
Mr Spanner would replace my facts with his opinions. If Cromwell believed in religious liberty why did he outlaw the Church of England, rid Parliament of almost half of its reformed members (Presbyterians) and persecute Baptists, Quakers and other Christian denominations? Why did Love, Adams, Featley, Hall, Ward, Balcanqual, Manton, Charnock etc., etc, protest and suffer? Why did Baxter call …
