… pastors, servants from their masters and even wives from their husbands was the small community of Salem several hours ride on horseback from Boston.
Salem, though of very insignificant size, has received an over-proportioned importance in American ‘popular’ history as an example of how the Puritans strove to purge a town of its sin by burning its evil-doers 1 . To a balanced Christian mind, Salem ought rather to be an example of how superstition and lack of spiritual insight …
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… attributes which he feels must come through the sinner’s awareness of his new status. Thus the trials of Old Adam and the blessings of Justification are mere pro forma labels to demonstrate status not actualities. Against this, Reformed believers hold that condemnation is a deserved judgment pronounced on us by a righteous God. However, justification is never a deserved judgement pronounced on us by a righteous God. It is thus not a legal act like condemnation as there is everything to …
… This being designed for a state of trial, God now means to try us, that our conduct, under all the trials of life, my discover what we are, and ripen us for the day of judgment; when God will judge every man accord-ing to his works, and render to every one according to his doings. He does not intend, in the dispensations of his providence, to suit things to a state of ease and enjoyment, which is what this life is not designed for; but to a state of trial: He puts men into trying circumstances …
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… is otherwise savingly unknowable.
O. R. Johnston’s paper on Richard Greenham and the trials of a Christian touches the heart as it is about the sinful desires, delusions, and doubts that we all share. Greenham applies the Word to this darker side of the Christian’s life in a most realistic, profoundly doctrinal way. But what about the joys of being in Christ?
Part Two: Servants of the Word
Jim Packer writes refreshingly on the Lord’s Day. Many ‘Reformed’ …
… that year never materialised. So, too, it was Fuller’s action which caused the initial torturous trials of the mission through his placing, without the knowledge of the committee, a most unlikely candidate in their midst who looked to the mission to get rid of his enormous debts.
There are so many myths propagated by the New Divinity theology of Michael Haykin and his Fuller Fan Club that it might take years for those who make themselves familiar with the sources to clean out their very …
