… on reading articles critical of John Wycliffe in the Christian Newspaper
Sir:
Robert Williams (41:11) believes that Wycliffe was not in tune with later mainstream Reformers. He cannot mean the 16th century Reformers as they obviously built on Wycliffe. So he is probably thinking of the many evangelical scholars of today who have sadly little in common with either Wycliffe or the Reformation. Williams appears to have taken over the Lechler/Green, late nineteenth century, …
Posts Tagged Robert Moxon
Robert Williams on Wycliffe
Dec 19
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 …
Demythologising History
Nov 9
… seeking union with Presbyterianism, conceding far more than they demanded (See John Durie and Robert Leighton). However, Scottish Presbyterians stubbornly fought for a pan-British take-over with a structure 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 …
… 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 confuses Gill’s orthodoxy with Fuller’s. Gill had one of the largest Particular Baptist congregations in Britain, outnumbering Fullers by far. Contemporary evangelical magazines …
Fuller and Evangelism
Aug 21
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 confuses Gill’s orthodoxy with Fuller’s. Gill had one of the largest Particular Baptist congregations in Britain, outnumbering Fullers by far. Contemporary evangelical magazines …
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 confuses Gill’s orthodoxy with Fuller’s. Gill had one of the largest Particular Baptist congregations in Britain, outnumbering Fullers by far. Contemporary evangelical …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… 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)
Stephen Charnock (1628-1680): True Divinity
The Antiquity of Hebrew Vocalisation
The Continuing Reformation
The Conversion of Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879)
The Great Ejection of 1643-1660
The Synod of Dort (1618-9)
Thomas …
… to succeed him at Carter Lane. Francis’ triumphs through his humble faith are inspiring. Then Robert Oliver gives interesting insights into the life and ministry of Abraham Booth, a man respected and honoured outside Baptist circles. Oliver sees Booth as following Gill’s leadership in combating Antinomianism and devotes a large section to the controversy between Fuller and Booth which ended in the latter calling Fuller ‘lost’. Booth spoke of a true imputation in the sense that the …
Clifford on Schism
Oct 24
… them with fiction, half-truths and wishful-thinking merely fosters division. His astonishment at Robert Law’s views concerning Seceders arises from his insufficient knowledge of our Reformers and pre-Commonwealth Puritans who were strictly against Secession. The Dutch, Swiss, German, Italian, French, Hungarian and Polish Reformed churches viewed the English Church as exemplary as witnessed later at Dort. This was especially the position of England’s major Continental advisers, Bullinger, …
