Sir:
I must reject Mr Spanner’s accusations of my alleged inaccuracies concerning a work he has not read. I research each of my letters to the EC carefully, using primary literature. The term ‘shell’ has been used since the 16th cent. for a hollow artillery projectile filled with material intended to explode on landing. Thus Reilly says of Cromwell’s bombardment: “The shells were effectively flung from …
Posts Tagged Mr Evans
… Knollys, Kiffin, Bunyan, Keach, the Stennetts, Gill, Beddome, Ryland Sen., Hall Sen., Caleb Evans and Samuel Medley.
Happily the ‘Hyper-bashing’ formerly associated with this team of authors has almost disappeared, John Gill is seen more positively and the former wild enthusiasm for Andrew Fuller has been tamed. Yet these two men are still seen as the main exponents of the Particular Baptists with Michel Haykin concluding his Introduction with the open question,
“Was …
… greatly neglected. I would like to see Mrs James doing a separate volume on the two Rylands, Caleb Evans, William Steadman, John Ash, Joseph Stennett, John Ward, Nathan Bailey and John Fawcett et. al., discussing their aims in Christian education and their methods of drawing up curricula and working out didactics and methodology. Those of us interested in Home and Christian Schooling would be in her debt.
Tom Wells on Samuel Pearce reminds us of the oft-forgotten role Pearce played …
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 …
… though he judges those authors as belonging to an apostate church! Such standard Baptist works as Evans’ Early British Baptists and Brown’s Memorials of Baptist Martyrs are not used, though Gay deals with this period and argues that the great bulk of those persecuted under Mary were Baptists. Furthermore, Gay uses neither Armitage, Benedict, Hayden, Light, Yuille, Nelson Cote, Clifford, Christian, Good, Goadby, White, Whitley (W.T) etc. i.e. the recognised standard works, nor, though …
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 …
