The 2007 Protestant Reformation Conference: August 28-30
The PRS met once again at Regents Park College, Oxford for their annual conference. The college is situated centrally in what must be one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. The staff made all their guests most comfortable and the fellowship was deep and sweet indeed. As usual at such a conference, the conversations which took place quite equalled the lectures in benefit and depth. This year’s topic was ‘Secularism …
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… Bible. Due to the generosity of the Danish King, the missionaries were able to add a school, a college, a hostel and private houses so that within a few years, the buildings alone of the mission station covered five acres. These were set in several acres of botanical gardens. Soon after settling in Serampore, Carey realised what a godsend Ward and Marshman were. He told the Society, “Brother Ward is the very man we wanted: he enters into the work with his whole soul. I have much pleasure …
Lecture given at the Protestant Reformation Society,
Regent’s Park College, Oxford, 2007
The Troubles at Frankfurt
A Vindication of our Martyrs’ Legacy
The tiny enclave that rescued the Reformation in England
Readers of Asterix will be familiar with a tiny fortress, a mere dot on the map of the Roman Empire, which was to bring Rome to its knees. So much for fairy-tales. Solid fact are better than airy fiction. The real Frankfurt of …
… Foster on one side, critic Edwin Welch on the other
Mrs Cook mentions Cheshunt College and the Cheshunt archives but does not mention that J. K. Foster of the college, an expert on the history of the Connexion, wrote two long introductory essays to Seymour’s 1839 first edition, affirming its accuracy and recommending it strongly without reservation. Thus cries of inaccuracy against Seymour should be treated warily. On the other hand, Mrs Cook obviously relies heavily on …
… Bengel to head a preparatory department for fourteen to sixteen-year-olds at a new theological college at Denkendorf, the government sent him on a pan-German tour of the churches from the beginning of March to the end of September 1713 in order to give him as wide an understanding as possible of the needs of the schools and churches throughout the various German states. Everywhere on these tours, he found opposition to the sound, scholarly ideas of Spener and Franke but insisted wherever …
… under Benjamin Beddome in revival days, on taking over a well-established Independent church (College Lane, Northampton), he increased its membership seven-fold. Like Whitefield and Wesley he pioneered open-air preaching in the highways and byways of public recreation areas. Unlike Ryland’s modern critics who remove the doctrines of grace from the gospel of salvation and include man’s agency as a saving factor, Ryland was concerned that the full gospel should be preached to all, …
… of Ryland’s work in this area. Gordon fills the gap in our knowledge, but his explanation of the College Lane decline in membership cannot stand. Ryland Senior had built up a very large congregation before the Modern Question controversy left father and son on different sides. However, after around 1781, Ryland began to forsake the doctrines of his father to which he and the members had pledged their allegiance. He then demanded that the members should change with him. Objectors, including …
… deacons.
Whitgift now put forward Dr. Nicholas Bond the future President of Magdalen College, Oxford, as his candidate and the Reformed Archbishop Sandys of York came to the Queen’s help by recommending Richard Hooker who was personally well-known to him and who had tutored Sandys’ son. As little could be found in favour of Bond and Travers and Hooker appeared to be the best qualified man for the task, the Queen gave Hooker the post. Hooker immediately asked that Travers …
… teaching which it has come to appreciate over the years. The main speaker, Philip Eveson, a Bible College Principal and reputed to be a Reformed man, proved a wolf in sheep’s clothing and openly declared himself to be a contender against the reformed faith. Radically denying the experimental, new-life-giving work of God in Justification so much emphasised by the New Testament writers and our Reformers, Eveson proclaimed that it was merely a legal, ‘as if’ act with no actual transforming …
… believe in the holiness of the Law and in good works. Though the Principal of a theological college, he had no idea what Calvinism really was. Gill told him, “Though we say, that works are not necessary to salvation; do we say, that they are not necessary to anything else? Do we say, that they are not necessary to be done in obedience to the law of God? Do we say, that the commands of the law are not to be regarded by men? That they are things indifferent, that may be done, or not …
