… 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 …
Posts Tagged Richard Muller
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 …
Clifford’s New Reformation
Dec 11
… ‘ rechtvaardig maken ’ (to make righteous). Bauer, Liddel/Scott, Thayer, Hatch/Redpath, Muller, Gemoll, Wigram and Cremer teach in their entries on dikaioo, that through participation in Christ’s righteousness, we are made and declared just, vindicated, verified, made pure, made good, cleansed, done justice to, redeemed and our sin is removed. ‘ Dikaioo ’ never means a mere bare declaration.
But what of the O. T.? True, the term tzahdak in its Kal form may …
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, …
Cox and Knox
Nov 3
A letter written to the Bible League Quarterly concerning Richard Cox and John Knox.
Sir: Writers of biography have always to guard themselves against presenting their subject so that he stands in exaggerated contrast to his fellow-beings. Knox, of course, is of great interest to students of the Reformation but in presenting him, John Brentnall has painted some of those around him in too sombre colours. For instance, Knox is mentioned as …
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… 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 …
… and regards the English Reformers as Miles Coverdale, Edmund Grindal, John Jewel, John Fox and Richard Cox as representing a false and lost cause. Knox is Lloyd-Jones’ Asterix, spelt differently, but Knox’s foe was not Rome but the Church of England. Some of our modern Ultra- Puritans have criticised me for daring to be objective on Knox. Scotsman Andrew Lang, perhaps the most well-known of Knox’ biographers, warns against the hagiographical ignorance of lovers of Knox and explains …
… 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 …
… was difficult. His first attempt failed. In 1764 he found a seven or eight-year-old alcoholic boy, Richard Coleman living with His drunkard father. Cowper rescued the boy and instructed him. Although Cowper looked after Coleman until well into manhood, he remained addicted to alcohol and a host of other malpractices and proved a great burden on Cowper’s patience and pocket. Cowper’s other three protégés were brilliant successes. John Unwin was the son of his close friend William Unwin …
