… However, the term ‘Puritan’ caught on and was soon used positively in the sense Richard Baxter applied to his father, a man who lived a godly life according to the Scriptures. However, during Martyn Lloyd-Jones struggle with Anglicanism, he tended to back-project the Anglican Church of his day onto the history of Puritanism which led him to the conclusion that Anglicans could not be Puritans. Lloyd-Jones thus redefined the word in his writings of 1970-72 as indicating a …
Posts Tagged Richard Baxter
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… in the Church of England were pronounced ‘scandalous’ by the churches of the Usurpation and Richard Baxter, a fierce critic of Cromwell, yet on the side of the rebels, tells us that as many as one half of Anglican ministers were deprived.
When is a Dissenter not a Dissenter?
Dissenting Baxter had certainly no axe to grind on behalf of the Episcopalians. His case is a puzzle. Though he took the side of the Rebellion, he continued to use the Prayer Book himself, long …
… a universal atonement.
The Reformed Tradition
Chapter Two is in the able hands of Richard Muller on John Gill and the Reformed Tradition. It was tough work getting through this chapter but highly rewarding as the enormity of Gill’s reading and learning was revealed. Muller, however, is surely wrong in affirming that Gill’s ‘The Doctrine of God’s Everlasting Love to His Elect’ shows that he built on Saltmarsh Crisp and Hussey. Gill affirms in that book that …
E. T. Clifford on Doddridge
Aug 22
… odds. Furthermore, I missed Doddridge’s own balanced, but at times highly negative, appraisal of Baxter in Dr. Clifford’s attempt to fit Doddridge into Baxter’s shoes.
George M. Ella, Mülheim
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Reviver of the Reformation in Germany
Ralf Erskine (1685-1752): Revealing Christ’s Beauties
Richard Cox (1499-1581): The Reforming Refugee
Richard Hooker (c. 1554-1600): Coordinator of the Reformed Faith
Richard Mather (1596-1669): Pioneer of American Congregationalism
Risdon Darracott (1717-1759): The Poor Man’s Preacher
Robert Greathead (c. 1175-1253): Defender of Orthodoxy
Robert Hawker (1753-1827): Zion’s Warrior
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and Her Connexion (1707-1791) …
Demythologising History
Nov 9
… of terror, discipline and order hitherto unknown within Reformed churches. Contemporary unionists Richard Sibbes, John Davenport, Samuel Ward, Richard Holdsworth, Philip Nye, John White, Cornelius Burgess, John Durie, Thomas Edwards, Thomas Goodwin, Daniel Featley, Joseph Hall, William Laud, George Abbot, Joseph Mead, Robert Leighton, John Bergius and the bulk of British scientists, educators, poets and writers, besides a majority of German, Dutch, Swiss, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian and …
Cromwell Queried
Aug 21
… Buchan’s findings, yet ignores the other biographers and contemporary writers quoted, especially Baxter and Calamy whom Urwick also used. These are mostly highly critical of Cromwell. This is why I strove to redress the balance, though Mr Gellion ignores my positive remarks concerning Cromwell, obviously finding me too impartial.
Mr. Gellion informs us that the only people who ‘drew breath in hope’ after Cromwell’s death were “the profligates who peopled Charles II’s …
… merely because he is an easy target for the coco-nut throwers. It is odd that Iain leaves out Richard Davis in this connection. Davis is the stumbling block of all Bannerites . A High Calvinist with an enormous evangelistic outreach. I suppose Iain will put Davis down to ‘Revivalism’ and not ‘Revival’. (I an not referring to Samuel Davis).
Now to the promised subject of using quotes from Spurgeon (Chapter 11) as a weapon against hypothetical Antinomianism. By …
… to the Commonwealth and friends of Christopher Love whose blood fell on Cromwell’s hands. Baxter, their spokesman, called the Commonwealth ‘odious’, and, after Love’s martyrdom, said “The most of the ministers and good people of the land did look upon the New Commonwealth as tyranny, and were more alienated from them than before.” Cromwell, he claimed, found everything lawful that fostered his own exaltation. Farmer’s comments remind us that the laws to which he referred …
… 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 testifies to Toplady’s fine Christian witness and openness to lovers of the doctrines of grace whatever their denomination. These are points ignored by Mr. Hind. He pleads for a different Toplady biography. The facts plead for a more knowledgeable, accurate and balanced reviewer.
