… we read postings to the HBS which state dogmatically that Baptists are, or ought to be, neither Reformed or Protestant. Such subscribers see so much error in these two branches of the institutionalised establishments that they beg loudly to differ and proclaim a ‘better way’. Not all Baptists, however, agree and we have that school represented by members of the American Founders’ Journal and the British Reformation Today who affirm strongly that Baptists are, or ought to be, both …
Posts Tagged Reformed Church
Are We Reformed?
Aug 21
… a yard-stick to judge my views. This is a very unstable basis to work on as the various, so-called Reformed bodies (which are often most popish) interpret Calvin differently and, indeed, it is not always their fault. Calvin is very much like Spurgeon and my favourite poet Cowper: they find friends in all camps. But the trouble occurs when these ‘friends’ cease to be friendly amongst themselves and cross-denomination-wise over their private interpretations. I do not use the term Calvinist …
Apostate Church of England
Dec 17
Letter to the English Churchman concerning criticism of the Reformed Church of England and praise of the Cromwellian chaos.
Sir:
The Letters to the Editor on the spiritual state of the pre-Rebellion Church of England swing from one extreme to the other. Ignoring historical facts, they back-project later dark sectarian interpretations onto more luminous times. The rejection of the Restitution by an alleged 2,000 (nearer 800) ministers in 1662 …
The debates between the Master of the Temple Church, Richard Hooker and his Deputy Walter Travers between 1585-1586 sparked off controversies which are still unsettled. The original subject matter, however, has been radically altered through changing theological fashions and back-projections of subsequent controversies. The original discussions arose through differences regarding preaching and lecturing, public worship, predestination, …
… I would have never finished reading the book. Could it be that in arguing that there was no Church in England until the 16th century and even that was ‘corrupt’, Gay is thinking of the teachings of the doctrines of grace found in such men of God as Bede, Greathead and Bradwardine which Gay cannot stomach? Wycliffe alone disproves Gay’s theory of a non-existent Church in England, yet Gay merely mentions Wycliffe in passing as one who preached against the pope.
Gay looks to …
… worldwide ups and downs, triumphs and defeats. However, the gospel has spread territorially, church planting has increased and there are far more Christians in the world today than ever before. I now receive letters from Continents and countries where spiritual blindness prevailed half a century ago. True, these churches are handicapped by modern apostate churches, the dumbing down of doctrine, the growth of para-church movements, big business and entertainment groups masquerading as …
The Free Offer: Biblical and Reformed
By David Silversides
Marpet Press, 2005
Yet another former sturdy defender of the faith now endorses a deceitful gospel which outclasses the errors of older Liberalism. David Silversides has joined such modern apostles as John and Iain Murray, Malcolm H. Watts, Phillip R. Johnson, Errol Hulse, David Gay and Ken Stebbins in their campaign to alter radically the …
… Sadly, the corrupt view of Reformation doctrine promoted in the declaration has crippled our Reformed churches and caused them to abandon the sovereignty of God in salvation, teaching humanistic natural law, common grace and duty faith as the activating means in all men to make them just before God. Thus we have the present error of leading men of the Reformed Establishment who are publicly exhorting us to drop our ‘all of grace’ theology and believe that justifying salvation is …
… the past so motivated the churches. Of course, there are great spiritual treasures to be found in church history and much to be learnt through past triumphs and failures. However, there is also a danger in this preoccupation with the past against which we must be warned. As our churches grow sadly less and less dependent on Scripture, we tend to look for historical roots for our support. So many once Bible-believing churches who scorned tradition are now looking to the past to prove their …
