… Society,
August 27 th, 2009,
Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, England
Irresistible grace represents the traditional ‘I’ in the acronym ‘TULIP’. So now I shall tease you a little. The name ‘Tulip’ comes from the same Turkish root as ‘turban’ and the flower of that name was introduced by the Turks to Europe as a symbol of the spreading Ottoman Empire, or the TULIP ERA as the Islamising of Europe was called. The popular strains Tulipa turkestanica and Tulipa …
Posts Tagged Sovereign Grace
Irresistible Grace
Sep 21
Sir:
The letters from Messers Spanner and Buzzard concerning common grace reveal problems in defining and understanding the term. Mr Spanner refers to its non-saving scope, quoting John Murray in support. However, Murray disagrees radically with Spanner, seeing common grace as offering “nothing less than salvation in its richness and fullness.” Sir Anthony sets the scene entirely in a saving capacity and rebukes Calvin for not seeing eye to eye with him. …
… It is part of the Kingdom of Heaven exerting itself against the powers of darkness. God in His grace gives succeeding ages special glimpses of His Word so that these controversies may be resolved and settled. Since the Reformation, men who believe in the doctrines of grace have found themselves united in the common cause against Arminianism. Doctrinal differences amongst themselves have scarcely arisen except for matters relating to church order and baptism. Nowadays most Reformed men feel …
… Mr Wilson still disregards my plea asking me ambiguously for Laud’s ‘satisfactory views on Sovereign Grace and Arminianism’ instead of consulting Laud himself. That the Presbyterians outdid Laud in their Laudianism is signed and sealed in the documents of the Westminster Assembly, carefully preserved and protected by Scotsman John Durie who was strongly supported by Laud in his efforts to form a pan-European United Reformed Church with bishops and elders as equals. In Laud’s works …
Books
Aug 21
… Justification from Eternity, Go Publications.
1998, Weighed in the Balance (The Doctrines of Grace vs. Fullerism ), The Huntington Press.
1998, John Gill and Justification from Eternity, A Tercentenary Appreciation 1697-1997, Go Publications.
1999, Mountain Movers: Champions of the Faith, Go Publications.
2000, Augustus Toplady: A Debtor to Mercy Alone (with Anthology ), joint publishers, Go Publications and the Gospel Magazine.
2000, William Cowper: The Man with God’s …
Demythologising History
Nov 9
… the ambiguity of his original statement concerning ‘evidence of Laud’s satisfactory views on Sovereign Grace and Arminianism’. The word ‘satisfactory’ was Wilson’s (now withdrawn) and could never be mine. If Wilson did his own homework instead of demanding repeatedly that I do his, he would find strong supporters of Arminianism and Amyraldianism at the WA including Calamy, Seaman, Marshall and Vines.
Wilson’s comparison of uncompromising Presbyterian Henderson with …
… a fight! Silversides, however, runs away from the grave moral problems his own defence of common grace and the free offer entails, never explaining why God, in his opinion, desires the salvation of all sinners in the preached gospel, yet nevertheless rejects them with the same delight that He felt when lulling them falsely to Himself. Silversides weird idea of God’s heavenly love for sinners in this life but hate in the next presents huge moral problems which he leaves unsolved. Nor does …
… his well-known views on the issue of saving faith and duty-faith. The controversy of “common grace” and the “well-meant offer” bears very much upon that issue; and as it is also part of the whole debate on the classic Antinomian, Neonomian and legalism controversy of bygone years.
Dr. Ella’s views are clear enough and like those in opposing camps, unequivocal and unabashed. The PRC disagrees with Dr. Ella, and takes its stand against the notion of which “faith” is defined …
