… these words and show Cowper’s sufferings in the light of his deep faith. The small, inexpensive book, richly illustrated, is not so much a ‘Life’ as an attempt to trace all the influences which God exercised on Cowper to make him the great poetical preacher of God’s Word, Works and Ways.
G. M. Ella, Mülheim
Posts Tagged Prayer Book
New Cowper Book
Aug 21
Cox and Knox
Nov 3
… Calvin’s letters, loosely translated and edited, referring to the Troubles at Frankfurt is the book of that name published anonymously in 1575. These documents point to certain difficulties amongst the English Refugees which were gradually solved in mutual love and cooperation. Four Parker Society volumes of letters also give evidence concerning the Reformed character of the Anglicans at Frankfurt and we have the testimonies of Bullinger, Martyr, Calvin, Beza and Gualter etc. to back this …
… debt to Derek)
The second version is that propagated by Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in his book The Puritans. Lloyd-Jones combines both the political and doctrinal aspects and sees a direct link between the troubles at Frankfurt and the Great Rebellion at the time of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. Though Knox paid only a relatively brief visit to Frankfurt, Lloyd-Jones makes Knox the leading political and religious rebel whose work at Frankfurt paved the way for the disestablishment …
Demythologising History
Nov 9
… Reformer and Knox’s co-pastor John Rough suffered martyrdom, confessing that the Reformed Prayer Book of 1552 agreed ‘in all points with the Word of God’. This was Scotland’s Reformed faith until Counter-Reformation Presbyterianism outlawed it ninety years later.
Clifford on Hooker
Nov 12
… not a Church of England minister, he pressed ambitiously for Parliament to replace the Reformed Book of Common Prayer by his Book of Discipline. Travers’ ‘puritan’ colleagues refused to follow him, never mind Parliament and the Church of England. Hooker wrote his mammoth Ecclesiastical Polity to show Travers and Cartwright 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 …
Contra Knox
Aug 21
… their views radically according to changing situations. Who would doubt, as Hugh Watt shows in his book John Knox in Controversy, that Knox spent more time attacking his fellow-reformers than he did the pope’s cohorts? Who would deny the faithful words of evangelical men such as Bale, Whitehead, Cox, Lever, Becon, Sandys, Sampson and Traheron, who say that Knox looked upon the public reading of Scripture and other gospel-grounded forms of worship as ‘irksome and unprofitable’? Does not …
… to the gathered church that their new minister taught contrary to the gospel as he knelt in prayer and prayed before the sermon instead of after. Travers had developed a strict and rigid form of service which he believed was essential to the gospel. From now on, for over a year, Hooker expounded the Word in his Sunday morning services and Travers pulled Hooker’s sermon to pieces in his afternoon lecture. Hooker, he argued, taught that God’s will concerning sin was not causative but …
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… so inspired these factius puritans, that violating the laws of gratitude, scorning my letters and prayer to them, despising the intercession of the president himself, they practice this monstrous tyranny against me and my son, without warning or reason given. I grant my son is not so pure and free of all blemish as are those thrice pure puritans; nevertheless in these blemishes of his I have not yet found any mote so great as the greater beams which one may perceive in their characters.” …
Hawker’s Guidebooks to Zion
Aug 24
… union we have with our Lord from eternity to eternity so sublimely taught as in this gem of a book. Hawker’s advice on how to be assured of the unity one enjoys in Christ is pastoral care at its very best.
Hawker lays great stress on prayer and in his Prop Against All Despair, the writer coaches the believer lovingly through the most difficult of Christian exercises but perhaps the most rewarding. Hawker shows how prayer in the Spirit opens Heaven’s doors. Few books have …
… His case is a puzzle. Though he took the side of the Rebellion, he continued to use the Prayer Book himself, long after the Church of England was outlawed and remained a constant critic of the follies of Parliament and Presbyterianism. The story is told of his taking a burial service amongst the most hardened rebels and was afterwards complimented on his eloquent language and fine theology. Taking advantage of his fellow rebels’ ignorance, he had taken the service verbatim from …
