Re John Paul II’s latest pronouncements. Anyone reading such sound and instructive books as Bungener’s History of the Council of Trent, Miles’ The Voice of the Glorious Reformation and Collette’s’ The Novelties of Romanism, will realise how the Vatican sect, erroneously known as the Roman Catholic Church, is a pseudo-religious movement of a relatively young age. Indeed, it is a corrupt, …
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John Paul II
Aug 21
The Problem of Fullerism
Aug 24
The Problem of Fullerism
by Paul Fahy
(Understanding Ministries)
The system of unbiblical doctrines known as Fullerism is becoming popular in our present-day Reformed churches. Originally launched by a small Latitudinarian clique in the late 18th cent., it was denounced by Fuller’s Reformed contemporaries as ‘a gangrene in the churches’. In 1877, the Gospel Magazine joined most of the major …
… of them. Faith is the gift of acceptance of what has already been wrought out. Hooper quotes Paul as saying “We are justified by faith, that is, we are just through the confidence of mercy.” The whereby and wherefore of justification is Christ’s electing love and sacrifice and prevenient grace. ( Declarations of Christ ). Hooper is following Paul who stresses that justification comes to God’s ungodly enemies and not to the already faithful. Jewel explains that the faith which …
Clifford on Hooker
Nov 12
… how a Reformed Church actually worked.
Clifford’s Titus argument misses the point. Paul authorised Titus as a bishop to ‘set in order the things that are appointed’ and to ‘ordained elders’. Hooker accepted this dual function, Cartwright/Travers did not. Clifford, misusing Calvin, argues from silence that what Paul said to Titus, he said to every presbyter. However, Calvin speaks of different long-term and short-term offices. He ranks Titus above ‘ordinary’ elders …
… as studying the weather is superstitiously accepted as a way of finding God’s salvation. Paul in Romans 1-2 teaches that common grace, alias natural law, reveals the wrath of God from heaven on a people who are condemned whereas the righteousness of God is revealed through His justifying certain ones by faith. Grace in the Scriptures is always particular for a particular purpose and never common in a saving capacity. Furthermore, the Murrayites would have us believe that though God …
… that contains them, will ever pass away. We can only understand what sin is in this context. Thus Paul said, “I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” (Rom. 7:7.). Thus, without God’s law, we can neither understand ourselves nor God.
The temporal and eternal functions of the law
Some might challenge this statement, claiming that God has no eternal laws. Did not Jesus claim that ‘the law’ was only …
… He thought of it purely in relation to man. Thus when Hervey writes to Wesley saying that Paul often mentions imputed righteousness, and adds the question, “What can this be, but the righteousness of Christ?” Wesley’s denies that there is any reference to Christ in that passage and writes back, “Paul tells us quite plainly in Rom. iv. “To him that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, faith is imputed for righteousness”, arguing that it was Abraham’s active faith …
… grace, to make His Bride partakers of His triumphs. He thus freed His elect from all legalities. Paul says in Romans 5:17, “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.”
Legal rhetoric is not the gospel of grace
Those who make salvation a mere piece of legal rhetoric get into all kinds of difficulties as witnessed by a blog I …
Come and Welcome Letter
Nov 11
… with an introduction and blurb containing irrelevant and misleading New Divinity propaganda? Paul Austen (Nr. 7652) rightly challenges the suitability of a publisher’s preface which presents Andrew Fuller as freeing the churches from the grip of Gill’s alleged Hyper-Calvinism, thus misusing Bunyan to promote Fullerism. In Come and Welcome, Bunyan reveals the fallacy of Fullerism regarding atonement, reconciliation, imputed righteousness, law, gospel, justification and eternal …
John Overall not an Arminian
Dec 27
… being so used to reading, writing and speaking the ancient languages. When he became Dean of St. Paul’s and had to preach before the Queen in English, he was quite tongue-tied. He held to the more revolutionary Puritan view of government, believing that after a revolution or conquest, once a new government was formed, a Christian was duty-bound to support it. When the Anglican Non-jurors refused to take the oath of allegiance to William III having already given it to James II, Bishop …
