… I criticise Laudian intolerance openly wherever it occurs and protest when Wilson attempts to deny Presbyterianism’s greater Laudianism. Mr Wilson fails to see the ambiguity of his original statement concerning ‘evidence of Laud’s satisfactory views on Sovereign Grace and Arminianism’. The word ‘satisfactory’ was Wilson’s (now withdrawn) and could never be mine. If Wilson did his own homework instead of demanding repeatedly that I do his, he would find strong supporters of …
Posts Tagged Presbyterianism
Demythologising History
Nov 9
Mountain Movers’ Review
Aug 21
… is out of context. He appears to be comparing his present views of the Church of England with Presbyterianism, whereas I referred to the 16th and early 17th century situation, comparing the orthodox Anglican position with the particular views of Anglican Thomas Cartwright and certain Presbyterians and Separatists.
Concerning Mr Wilson’s strong criticism of King James, and the wish that he had been given more space in my book, I can only say that James was not one of my …
Men Not Gods
Sep 9
… the Assembly’s seditious Counter-Reformation bubble burst but Cromwell’s equally evil purge of Presbyterianism began. Though Cromwell diplomatically rejected the crown, he was given full royal powers by the ravaged Rump Parliament which fostered his megalomania and imagined eschatological role. Alarmed, the Presbyterian regicidal turncoats begged Charles II to return and save Commonwealth Britain from disaster! At the Restitution, Charles found the Presbyterians self-destroyed by their …
Anglicans and Presbyterians
Aug 21
… equally on the Continentals who were patronised by the like-questionable Prince Maurice. Dutch Presbyterianism was the seat of Arminianism and it cannot be doubted that in 1619 the English Reformation was in better shape.
The Dutch told Carleton re Episcopacy:
“they did much honour and reverence the good order and discipline of the church of England; and, with all their hearts, would be glad to have it established among them; but that could not be hoped for, in their state. …
… Hind misrepresents my comparison between the persecuted and martyrs of dissenting Anglicanism and Presbyterianism under Cromwell and those of the Restitution. Are names such as Hall, Usher, Ward, Featley, Balcanqual and Love unfamiliar to him? Many ‘godly Puritans’ suffered under and documented both persecutions, the second of which was a sad reaction to the first. Twice persecuted Baxter’s severe criticism of both Cromwell and the Restitution Parliament are extant.
My book …
Apostate Church of England
Dec 17
… quarrelled amongst themselves. The Baptists joined in and the Babel of Dissent began. Soon, Presbyterianism fared at Cromwell’s hands almost as badly as did the Episcopalian Church and those Presbyterians and Congregationalists who rejected the Restoration did so because they could not join a Church which tolerated both of them. Each confessed that they had more in common with the Anglicans than with each other. True religion suffered as a result. The Baptists were shunted out on a …
… and Reformed apologist, Daniel Featley, Gay says he had the marks of the typical persecuting State-Presbyterianism. Gay is thus apparently unaware that Featley was persecuted by the ‘State-Presbyterians’ for being a member of the Reformed Church of England and had his character blackened by certain Baptists in whom he confided when imprisoned. Featley died as a Dissenter from the Erastian views of the Presbyterians whereas the Baptists of the day not only supported ‘State …
… Modern debates have turned the Temple Controversy into a discussion about the pros and cons of Presbyterianism and Episcopacy which were not even mentioned in the original debate. Sadly, history is rejected and Hooker and Travers are given fictive roles on an imaginary stage, using artificial scripts reminiscent of the Anti-Episcopalian, politico-religious debates of the Dissenting Revolution of 1640-60.
When Master of the Temple, Dr Richard Alvey became ill in 1581, Bishop …
… leader Archbishop Usher suffered terribly under the Anti-Episcopalian policy of Protector, Presbyterianism and Parliament. In all, if we are to believe the man who has done deep research into this period, John Walker 2 , between 8,000-10,000 Anglican clergy and scholars were ejected, and/or dispossessed, evicted, sequestered, exiled or imprisoned during the Anti-Episcopalian revolution. Historian Clarendon maintains that all the ‘learned and orthodox divines’ in the Church of …
To Honour God
Aug 17
… dealing out a blow from which it never recovered. 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 …
