… on the name of Ella because it sounded ethnically Jewish. The provocative caption which shocked Philip Hoskins (7698) was not from my pen as he presumed. My letter was entitled ‘Israeli Citizenship’ and not ‘Christians are not Jews’, and warned against confusing religious beliefs with citizenship of a state. I argued thus in keeping with worldwide Jewry as opposed to Israeli Jewry. Following Jewish and Christian teaching, I pointed out that to be a Jew or Christian has nothing to do …
Posts Tagged Philip Hoskins
Reply to Philip Hoskins
Dec 16
Demythologising History
Nov 9
… comparison of uncompromising Presbyterian Henderson with peace-loving Commonwealth critic Philip Henry is invalid. Henry wanted an end to the strife, persecution and slaughter which Henderson viewed as spiritual cleansing. Henry was for a solution to the Commonwealth crisis uniting both sides; Henderson, a chief instigator of the crisis, preached absolute totalitarian intolerance.
Wilson’s …
Iain Murray’s Controversy
Dec 15
… as Cotton Mather, John Gill, James Hervey, William Romaine, William Cowper, Risdon Darracot and Philip Doddridge will know how utterly untrue your statement is. I would like to see this error corrected in your magazine at the earliest possible opportunity.
Yours in Christ,
George M. Ella
(Iain Murray replied personally, denying that the men I mentioned were contemporaries of Huntington as their dates did not exactly (sic) overlap. However, he had got their dates wrong. I …
… justification outlined therein is not that of our Reformers. It reflects the Humanism taught by Philip Melanchthon, often called Germany’s Erasmus. Unlike the bulk of Reformers including Bucer, Bullinger, Calvin and the English compilers of the 39 Articles and Homilies, the Melanchthon school taught a mere passive, non-causative, forensic justification turned into actual justification through obedience to natural law and the gospel. Because it was humanistic, it was man-centred. Sadly, …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Man Who Gave Divine Lustre to the Reformation
Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676) and the Poetry of Piety
Philip Doddridge (1702-1751): Teacher of the Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul
Phillip Jacob Spener (1635-1705): Reviver of the Reformation in Germany
Ralf Erskine (1685-1752): Revealing Christ’s Beauties
Richard Cox (1499-1581): The Reforming Refugee
Richard Hooker (c. 1554-1600): Coordinator of the Reformed Faith
Richard Mather (1596-1669): Pioneer of American Congregationalism …
Where Olyott Got It Wrong
Mar 10
… God’s Word: otherwise I did nothing. And then, while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my Philip of Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that never a prince or emperor did such damage to it. I did nothing: the Word did it all. Had I wanted to start trouble... (Olyott’s truncation) I could have started a little game at Worms that even the emperor wouldn’t have been safe. But what would it have been? A mug’s game. I did nothing: I left it to the Word.’
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… in the standards of teaching which it has come to appreciate over the years. The main speaker, Philip Eveson, a Bible College Principal and reputed to be a Reformed man, proved a wolf in sheep’s clothing and openly declared himself to be a contender against the reformed faith. Radically denying the experimental, new-life-giving work of God in Justification so much emphasised by the New Testament writers and our Reformers, Eveson proclaimed that it was merely a legal, ‘as if’ act with …
… will and when He will and it is obvious that His work is discriminating. This is why He transports Philip into the desert and William Carey to Serampore. Calvin explains this in Book II, Chap 21 of his Institutes :
“The covenant of life is not preached equally to all, and among those to whom it is preached, does not always meet with the same reception. This diversity displays the unsearchable depth of the divine judgement, and is without doubt subordinate to God`s purpose of eternal …
… 1831, another daughter, Lydia, aged five, died of an unknown illness in 1840 and the youngest son, Philip was tragically burnt to death at eight years of age in 1850. After a long and painful illness, Sarah died in 1845, leaving five children of whom one was still a baby in arms. Oncken wrote:
“My loss can only be partly estimated by those of my friends who knew her. Her sound judgement, her principles of moral rectitude and not less, her clear and sound views of divine truth, combined …
… they strive in the lecture hall to express their experimental religion in philosophical terms. Philip Doddridge, for instance, preached convincingly and edifyingly of the unity of the Godhead but when he tried to analyse and categorise the Trinity in his philosophical lecturers, apparent dry modalism was the result. This was also true of Jonathan Edwards who was a marvellous preacher of righteousness, proclaiming man’s inabilities but God’s sufficiency, who, however, puzzled the saints …
