… It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.
G. M. Ella
Posts Tagged Samuel Medley
Fuller and Evangelism
Aug 21
… It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.
… It is a view which does less than justice to the eminent usefulness of Benjamin Beddome, Samuel Medley, or John Hirst, all of whom held to a high Calvinistic position, and to the enduring value of the writings of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.”
G. M. Ella
… Kiffin, Bunyan, Keach, the Stennetts, Gill, Beddome, Ryland Sen., Hall Sen., Caleb Evans and Samuel Medley.
Happily the ‘Hyper-bashing’ formerly associated with this team of authors has almost disappeared, John Gill is seen more positively and the former wild enthusiasm for Andrew Fuller has been tamed. Yet these two men are still seen as the main exponents of the Particular Baptists with Michel Haykin concluding his Introduction with the open question,
“Was Gill a …
Men Not Gods
Sep 9
… had become corrupt and the rebellion of Oliver Cromwell and the Enlightenment philosophy of Samuel Rutherford put England back on the Reformation path.
Men of Two Natures
Sir: Both Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Rutherford were not gods but men of two natures. Today, Protestants are re-discovering Cromwell ‘warts and all’ and are beginning to realise that Rutherford had a similar verrucosis. Indeed, the political and religious carbuncles that Cromwell had were …
… Congregation he minister’d to in Nottinghamshire, to supply Mr. Burford’s Place in London (Samuel Burford was pastor of a Calvinistic Baptist Church at Currier’s Hall, Cripplegate).
It was a comfortable Sight to see thirteen Gospel Ministers together. Most of them either Preach’d or Pray’d and All that did so approved themselves sound in the Word and Doctrine, whence a good Presumption arises in favour of the rest. I should be glad if the Partition Wall between Christians …
… the stewardship of man in creation.
The seventh and final session was led by Dr. David Samuel who spoke on ‘The Effects of Secularism on Society Today’. Dr. Samuel also emphasised the destructive impact of the Enlightenment especially in the years after the Second World War which saw the rapid growth of secular humanism. The speaker described what he called the ‘collective amnesia’ of the times with its determination to forget and obliterate our Christian past as a nation …
Demythologising History
Nov 9
… 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 Swedish Reformers, all refute Wilson. …
… of us interested in Home and Christian Schooling would be in her debt.
Tom Wells on Samuel Pearce reminds us of the oft-forgotten role Pearce played in sending off Carey and later missionaries to foreign fields. One never hears a harsh word said about Pearce. Sadly, however, Wells otherwise adequate and objective presentation of his subject is disrupted by yet another Modern Question-Fuller ‘plug’ with a Marrow Controversy add-on this time. All this is left in the air …
