Sir.
Why is the EC promoting the para-church creed, Affirmation 2010, which seeks to ‘win the widest possible agreement’ in ‘various church bodies and constituencies’? This aim is doomed from the start as the twenty-four subscribers to date obviously represent different theologies and denominations and are dodging and dumbing down doctrinal issues. Their views of the Trinity, …
Posts Tagged Non-Conformists
Contra Knox
Aug 21
… were thoroughly against him. We also have the clear testimony of Foxe, Whitehead and many other Non-Conformists that it was a strategic reaction to Knox’s and Goodman’s highly treasonable, political and revolutionary Geneva writings that Mary burnt the Martyrs, equating their gospel preaching with Knox’s rebellious fantasies. Note Calvin’s pathetic, Mr. Facing-Both-Ways attempt to distance himself from Knox’s and Goodman’s intrigues. (Letter to Cecil, Jan. 29, 1559).
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Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… Even Beza had to call Calvin to order on the Interimist and Adiaphorist controversy and English Non-Conformists such as Sampson, Whitehead, Becon and Lever felt compelled to rebuke Calvin for his lack of clear thinking and action in siding with the worst offenders. Though Downham easily gains his point that church discipline is necessary, he does not tackle the relationship between discipline, doctrine and faith, and the problems the Puritans he quotes had in separating the soteriological …
… had been Knox’s closest confederatres in England and Geneva. Actually, Cox led a fine bunch of Non-Conformists 19 and Puritans that were to be greatly used of God in the future and to make names for themselves as Reformers, preachers, pastors, teachers and authors of sound expository literature. They were, with the majority already in Frankfurt, the cream of the English Reformation and the true legatees of the martyrs.
On 17 March, when the first Sunday service after the …
… very early of the severe persecutions meted out in England during the 17th century to Dissenters, Non-Conformists and Non-Jurors who wished to preach, teach and witness in Anglican parishes. Two books which became of special influence in forming my judgement were Thomas Coleman’s The Two Thousand Confessors of Sixteen Hundred and Sixty-Two and Edmund Calamy’s The Nonconformist’s Memorial, a three-volumed work on the same period. I treasure these works which served under God to …
Sir:
As one who was a pupil, student and free school teacher in Sweden for many years, I find Civitas’ overview of the Swedish situation (issue 7743) out-of date, misrepresentative and unrealistic. The 1992 Reform Bill that Civitas mentions was open to abuses without legal control so it was re-reformed in 1994. Subsequent governments have not been able to make new laws fast enough …
Mountain Movers’ Review
Aug 21
Letter to the Editor
Dear Sir,
It was encouraging 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 …
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 …
Men Not Gods
Sep 9
This letter was sent to the English Churchman to balance off a number of letters and articles claiming that the English Church of the Reformation had become corrupt and the rebellion of Oliver Cromwell and the Enlightenment philosophy of Samuel Rutherford put England back on the Reformation path.
Men of Two Natures
Sir: Both Oliver Cromwell and Samuel …
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 …
