… Huntington’s custom was to wait until money was needed then announce the exact sum from the pulpit and wait in faith until it came. “Half a dozen words, he told one correspondent, “brings in £60 or £70.” He went on to say that he never spent 20 minutes in the pulpit, “pumping and squeezing a few shillings out of the pockets of worldlings”. Huntington was firmly against reaping where he had never sown and did not allow his people to collect from door to door as was the …
Posts Tagged Pulpit
Reflections on Some Recent Banner of Truth Criticisms Regarding William Huntington and Avarice
Aug 17
… perpetually performing that which it is breathed out to accomplish.
2. Idleness in the pulpit
There is no lazy way to pastor flocks. Iain Murray claims sound expository preaching is too strenuous for today’s tiros, i.e. untrained ministers. So we should drop it. Rubbish! Such lazy ministers are hirelings so we should drop them. We are God’s front-line Ambassadors and warriors, always training, always studying to show ourselves approved, always learning, always …
John Gill and His Successors
Aug 17
… more balanced than Murray and emphasises time and time again the great usefulness of Gill in the pulpit. Whilst writing of Gill’s prowess as a preacher, he quotes John Rippon as saying that Gill, “came into the pulpit, at times, with an heavenly lustre on his countenance, in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ; enriched, and generally enriching.” Ivimey’s positive criticism of Gill is culled from Rippon but his negative criticism is taken from Crosby. It must be …
Hawker’s Guidebooks to Zion
Aug 24
… volumes of Village Sermons and Sermons on Important Subjects reveal his faithfulness in the pulpit. The words contained in Hawker’s memorial tablet sum up Hawker’s prowess as a preacher:
“The elegancy yet simplicity of diction, the liveliness and brilliancy of imagination, the perspicuity and vigour of thought, the depth and compass of Christian knowledge and experience, with which he was talented and blest, are still extant in his sermons.”
Hawker was a …
… Christ Jesus. I am not a preacher and have not the privilege of proclaiming this Gospel from the pulpit. I do, however, feel very much called to spread the good news by retelling the stories of men of God such as Cowper, Gill and Huntington, who were masters at their evangelistic craft. Heaven is fuller because of their work in the Lord.
… of this error and heresy, seeing Finney as taking a lone position, both in his use of slang in the pulpit and views of creating a new heart; why sinners hate God and total depravity etc.. Much of Dod’s further criticism regarding the new heart is a repeat of Hodge. New is that Finney is presented as the sole source of New Divinity. Dod also tackles Finney on the moral governmental issue of the atonement pioneered by the Dutchman Hugo Grotius. According to this teaching, God does not create …
… Reformers held to this belief in the face of Roman self-righteousness. Latimer proclaimed from the pulpit, “When he (God) gave us his only Son, he gave us also his righteousness and his fulfilling of the law. So that we are justified by God’s free gift, and not of ourselves, nor by our merits; but the righteousness of Christ is accounted to be our righteousness.” Writing in the 17th century John Bunyan could affirm, “There is no other way for sinners to be justified from the curse of …
Robert Oliver on Huntington
Aug 15
… the fact that Ryland was apprehended by a King’s Messenger for anti-government remarks in the pulpit although this is given in Bull, a book which I quote and with which Oliver claims familiarity. Oliver is aware that there are at least three reports of Ryland’s revolutionary politics in circulation (i.e. such were aired in the school, in the parlour and in the pulpit) yet he claims that the three are identical and were made in the parlour. There is no cause for this harmonising of …
… been at Mass in England, and had subscribed to blasphemous Articles: who read the litany in the pulpit, the people answering.” Here, Knox is totally ignoring that the French, Belgian, Dutch and British exiled Reformed churches had accepted a majority vote in favour of using the litany. Knox, however, lost sight of the pan-Reformed movement in his petty squabble and put his brethren’s action down to the “subtle undermining of Master Lever: who ought of the same to have been Patron and …
… experiments. It was no wonder that 92-year-old (wrong age!) Kiffin entered the fray from the pulpit and in writing against what he thought was Keach’s musical madness. Keach, not knowing Hebrew, was under the wrong impression that the Hebrew Psalms were written in rhyming verse accompanied by appropriate rhyming tunes and so rhyme must be used in church worship as a sign of true spiritual faith. Yet Haykin calls Keach’s quite pathetic, unscholarly apology for rhyming worship …
