Sir:
Iain Murray’s excellent, necessarily selective, overview of evangelicalism’s ups and downs (Issues 455-6) reveals the need of more pan-European study of the growth of Liberalism. Schleiermacher, of Moravian background and heart, was very much influenced by British Latidudinarians from whom he gained his love of Natural Law as opposed to revealed law. British Methodism helped …
Posts Tagged Rev. B.G. Felce
… the easiest subject for the speakers.
Under the excellent Chairmanship of the Rev. B.G. Felce, the sessions commenced with the Rev. Dr. Edgar Dowse speaking on ‘The Enlightenment’. Brother Dowse celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday at the conference and he is second to none for his enormous Biblical acumen, wit, oratory and energy of delivery. Starting at the Restitution, Brother Dowse traced the development of the age of reason through Matthew Tindal, John Toland and Thomas …
Sir,
J.R. Brogan writes (Aug, 10/17), “There may be other readers who, like Dr. Ella, cannot see why ‘Rev. 18:1-4 cannot be lightly dismissed as irrelevant today’”. Those new to the debate will thus be led to believe that I lightly dismiss this Scriptural exhortation and find it irrelevant to the European problem. Mr. Brogan’s reference was to words that I wrote and meant …
Receiving the antitype before the type
Most Baptists accuse believers in covenant baptism of confusing type with antitype. Actually, the boot is on the other foot in the special case of Carson who argues:
“Sins are washed away by faith in the blood of Christ, but they are symbolically washed away in baptism. Just as we become partakers in the death of Christ the moment …
New Cowper Book
Aug 21
Sir,
It was good to read of Countryman’s appreciation of William Cowper who has also not been forgotten by others in this bicentenary year. After publishing, several essays and two rather lengthy works on Cowper in recent years, I forwarded a bicentenary appreciation this January to a Canadian publisher. It is entitled William Cowper: The Man With God’s Deep Stamp Upon Him and …
What is a Baptist?
Aug 21
Dear Brethren,
Before I had the privilege of joining this symposium, I felt that I knew quite well what a Baptist church was. My simple definition was that a Baptist church consisted of a body of believers who had joined together in fellowship, chosen a pastor and deacons, preferably out of their own midst, and decided, on what they held to be Biblical grounds, to require water …
Robert Oliver on Huntington
Aug 15
Robert Oliver and the Twists and Turns of Historical Revisionism.
In July, 1988 an anonymous article appeared in the Banner of Truth magazine, surprising and shocking many readers. It was a fierce attack on the person and testimony of William Huntington, known affectionately as ‘the Immortal Coalheaver’. The article, which followed a similar attack on John Gill by Robert Oliver …
The March/April, 1999 number of Reformation Today features four articles on John Gill. The first, entitled John Gill – a Sketch of his Life , is a succinctly written biography of Gill’s faithful a nd productive life in the service of the gospel. Next, Editor Errol Hulse continues with John Gill – An Appreciation , presented as a review of The Life and Thought of John …
Exaggerated Claims concerning Andrew Fuller and False Information Regarding ‘High-Calvinists’
Dear Sir,
1795-1835 was a time of widespread revival with Anglican Robert Hawker preaching to thousands, Independent William Huntington equalled his efforts and Baptist William Gadsby founding 45-50 churches filled with new converts. The PBs were not inactive in this time but Mr Cook …
