… This leaves us with a shallow religion that is a mere mockery of Christianity and not the power of God unto salvation. In short, no doctrine, no gospel, no church.
The framework of my talk will thus be:
Part One: Dumbed-Down Doctrinal Dissent
Part Two: Divine Doctrinal Definitions
Part Three: Divine Doctrinal Demonstrations
Part Four: Divine Doctrinal Deductions
Part One: Dumbed-Down Doctrinal Dissent
Dumb dogs cannot bark
Referring to the hireling who …
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The Dumbing Down of Doctrine
Aug 17
… 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 Gill a cause of Particular Baptist decline in the eighteenth century and Fuller a catalyst for …
Robert Oliver on Huntington
Aug 15
… by this to pave the way for his own version of history. My questions then to the Oliver/ Murray team are, “What is your version? If Huntington was not the most vocal, influential and useful preacher of his day, and a Five-Point man to boot, who was?
The answer is as obvious as it is dubious. Andrew Fuller (1754-85), the introducer of Anglican Latitudinarianism into Baptist faith and practice and the disciple of Hugo Grotius the Dutch moral philosopher and anti-Calvinist, is …
… Sutcliffe, Ryland and Carey until their deaths is also a myth. Those ropes were cut by the home team a mere year after Carey reached India and the support promised for even that year never materialised. So, too, it was Fuller’s action which caused the initial torturous trials of the mission through his placing, without the knowledge of the committee, a most unlikely candidate in their midst who looked to the mission to get rid of his enormous debts.
There are so many myths propagated by …
… has to put in his Fullerite ‘spot’, leaving me wondering if the editor had advised his team to make sure that whoever they write about, they must take a break midway during their programme for a Fullerite ad. Dr Haykin assures me that this was not the case.
George McGuiness on Robert and James Haldane depicts two fine men who are perhaps as well-known on the Continent as in Britain and whose testimony is treasured by all denominations. They were also men of society, …
To Honour God
Aug 17
… He moved both army and magistrates to ban Presbyterianism from Parliament and the ecclesiastical power which went with such posts and thus paved the way for Presbyterian decline in England. It is also true to say that Cromwell’s anti-Baptist feelings grew with his power, especially concerning those in his own army. Left in his purged Parliament alone with the Congregationalists, Cromwell never succeeded in allying himself fully with the Independents, either. Like John Goodwin, he appeared …
… for Britain but for the England he called ‘Cain’s land’ before subjecting it to his military power, confiscating vast areas of Ireland to give to his English henchmen. Furthermore, Puritan praise and criticism of Charles I was very similar to Puritan praise and criticism of Cromwell, as earlier historians point out. We must not forget that the Puritans who dethroned Charles I, were the first to support Charles II in restoring the kingdom. When referring to the many who rejected the …
… does not transform but leaves a man unchanged. The Scriptures clearly teach the transforming power of justification culminating in that absolute, causative, generative and activating truth, “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous (Rom. 5:19).
The Synod of Dort
Aug 17
… and sevens concerning certain matters, the British should strive to mediate. Dr Carleton and his team were advised to keep the honour of their King and country in mind and report weekly to the British Ambassador who was an expert in Dutch affairs. Finally, the delegates were told to use their own initiative when unforeseen matters arose and keep up a good Christian witness.
The Synod gets underway
The Englishmen arrived at Dort on November 3, 1618, (Balcanqual was delayed), …
… has shifted the New Divinity accent from the original Edwards, Bellamy, Dwight, Hopkins and Fuller team to the later extravagances of Finney? Is this because they ally themselves with basic New Divinity teaching, though not with its later manifestations in Oberlin Theology? It would appear so. During the last 12-15 years, Banner publications have defended Andrew Fuller’s theology vigorously and closed their eyes totally to his New Divinity and Latitudinarian criticism of most basic Christian …
