… punished on our behalf and robs the term ‘substitution’ of all concrete meaning.
Sharon James gives a most balanced pen-portrait of John Rippon, however, James’ explanation of the church split concerning Rippon’s call gives a wrong impression. Actually the 30 members who could not accept Rippon as pastor on the grounds that the church was not unanimous were not a minority but represented half of the actual worshippers at the time. This sad drop in worshippers being due to …
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… Nettles to conclude that both men ’sang in unison’. This was also the contemporary opinion of James Hervey, Erasmus Middleton and Augustus Toplady.
How not to do it
Curt Daniel deals in Chapter Seven with John Gill and Calvinistic Antinomianism. Much of the chapter is way off the subject and exhibits an appalling lack of theological acumen for one introduced in a recent brochure as America’s number one expert on Gill. Daniel links up Antinomianism with Supralapsarianism …
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Mountain Movers’ Review
Aug 21
… Presbyterians and Separatists.
Concerning Mr Wilson’s strong criticism of King James, and the wish that he had been given more space in my book, I can only say that James was not one of my mentors and I only referred to him when he came into their stories and when he played a most positive role and certainly did not act the fool, as Mr. Wilson suggests. Mr Wilson, whom I believe is a Scotsman, will remember that when James visited Scotland with Andrewes, Hall and Abbot, he …
John Overall not an Arminian
Dec 27
… (1559-1618) was long dead by 1625, the year of Charles I’s accession, and as Mr Loh returns to James I in the same paragraph, the reference must be to Overall during the earlier reign of James.
Overall deserves to be remembered for his part in the Hampton Court Conference, whose 40oth anniversary we are remembering this year, and for his part in the production of the King James’ Bible. Overall is often made to wear the dunce’s cap in the Arminian Corner but his history …
… silence.
Mr Hind’s prejudiced reading has missed my point concerning whether John, James or Julius Bate was ‘Uncle Jack’. My footnote points out the difficulties involved as the biographical details appear to fit neither. Mr Hind, boasting that this is ‘a small difficulty’, opts for John but submits neither biographical nor etymological evidence. He calls it ‘a small point’, but makes his mis-applied hunch his yardstick for discrediting my entire book. The …
… for historical accuracy and true balance is seen further, for instance, in his attitude to King James and Daniel Featley. The author spends page after page belly-aching nauseatingly on the seamy side of his ‘Liar King’, and even gives us intimate details of how James relieved his bladder during a hunt. Apart from the fact that much of Gay’s criticism of James is a snobbish and over-prudish criticism of James’ age from Gay’s most slanted legal hindsight, that which Gay criticises …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Relater of God’s Illustrious Providences
Isaac McCoy (1784-1846): Apostle of the Western Trail
James Hervey (1713-1758): The Prose Poet
James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888): The Forgotten Baptist
James Usher (1580-1656): The Light of Ireland
Jan Laski (1499-1560): The Pan-European Reformer
Johann Gerhard Oncken (1800-1884): Germany’s Baptist Pioneer
John Albert Bengel (1687-1752): The Father of Modern Biblical Scholarship (I-II)
John Brine (1703-1765) and His Contemporaries (I.II)
John …
Irresistible Grace
Sep 21
… does not sum up the Christian Gospel. British Reformers had other flowers, too, like the rose of Sharon, in their doctrinal bouquets. There is no doctrine of the Word, no justification, no sanctification, no repentance, no faith, little Christology and little ecclesiology in the tulip’s five letters. They outline correctly and superbly God’s sovereign will, but they are alarmingly silent on how this is applied to the needs of sinners in witness, worship and evangelism. Theological …
Iain Murray’s Controversy
Dec 15
… and books on 18th century evangelicals of all denominations such as Cotton Mather, John Gill, James Hervey, William Romaine, William Cowper, Risdon Darracot and Philip Doddridge will know how utterly untrue your statement is. I would like to see this error corrected in your magazine at the earliest possible opportunity.
Yours in Christ,
George M. Ella
(Iain Murray replied personally, denying that the men I mentioned were contemporaries of Huntington as their dates did …
