Tobias Crisp served the Lord during a time of civil war and ecclesiastical unrest. There were threats of a papal take-over in the Established Church and Amyraldianism, Arminianism, Grotianism and Socinianism were flooding into the country to water down the faith inherited from the Reformers and defended by the Puritans. Crisp found these new religions false as they did not exalt Christ. …
Posts Tagged Tobias Crisp
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… (c.1290-1349): Doctor Profundus
Thomas Lever (1520-1577): Pastor of the Marian Exiles
Tobias Crisp (1600-1643): Exalter of Christ Alone
William Carey (1761-1834): Using God’s Means to Convert the People of India (I-IV)
William Cowper (1731-1800): Christian Campaigner
William Cowper and Home-Schooling
William Cowper’s Friendship with John Newton
William Grimshaw (1708-1763): Apostle of the North
William Huntington (1745-1813): Pastor of Providence
William Perkins …
… ‘The Doctrine of God’s Everlasting Love to His Elect’ shows that he built on Saltmarsh Crisp and Hussey. Gill affirms in that book that Saltmarsh says exactly nothing on Gill’s favourite doctrine and thus disagrees with him strongly, though he finds Saltmarsh a godly man and certainly no Antinomian. He is less critical of Crisp but still finds little in him concerning the question of union with Christ under debate. Hussey is not even mentioned in the work. Perhaps Muller, with …
… they would be as soul-winners.
Bengel was called a pessimist in his preaching as, like Tobias Crisp. He taught that every good deed of a Christian, even when preaching the gospel, was tainted with sin. However, Bengel delighted in preaching because he believed our Lord when He said, “My sheep hear my voice.” This truth, found in John 10 was the subject of Bengel’s first sermon in 1704 and it was a text he often used in the pulpit ever after. There was no talk of human agency …
… and Congregationalist understanding of Scripture concerning church and law ( Rex Lex ), rejected Crisp’s Anglican orthodoxy expressed in Christian Liberty No Licentious Doctrine, which Presbyterian Twisse nevertheless defended as did also Anglican preachers of righteousness such as James Hervey. All this led Toplady in his The Church of England Vindicated and his diaries to argue that Justification from Eternity was true Anglican doctrine.
… opposition is because of his senility and jealousy of Fuller. Fuller accuses Booth of following Crisp. This gives Oliver his cue to denounce Crisp whose teaching he has obviously not understood. He then claims that “much of the criticism of Andrew Fuller was unthinking and hostile to such a degree that his positive contribution to theology and the life of the churches was not given the consideration it deserves.” The same can be said of Oliver’s criticisms of Huntington etc… Oliver …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… with gospel and the work of Moses with that of Christ. In his great work Christ Alone Exalted, Tobias Crisp (1600-1643), that great winner of souls, tackles Grotian-like Christian Pharisees and explains to them the difference between a blind sinner and one whose eyes have been open:
‘The first of all these kinds of the grace of God, that he doth ever bestow upon a person, is, The opening his eyes to see himself filthy, and to see what he is: here begins a closing with Christ, to see a …
… to experimental faith and the Scriptures but my favourite writers such as Bunyan, Hervey, Gill, Crisp, Romaine, Hawker and Berkof occasionally come up with very similar statements. It must also be said that there are ‘grey zones’ in most human creeds and Engelsma has perhaps lost sight of the overwhelming truths of the majority of the Gospel Standard Articles. I believe that the Gospel Standard ought to consider revising the articles Engelsma mentions but their articles on election and …
… Gill had no difficulty in showing Taylor that such alleged Antinomians as Eaton, Saltmarsh and Crisp did not hold to the doctrine of eternal justification at all, whereas Taylor`s own father, a theologian of no mean moral calibre, did!
Gill, no ‘lone-runner’ by any means in his doctrine of eternal justification, follows Witsius, Macovius, Ames, Hoornbeck and Goodwin closely. Because of this support from other completely orthodox men, Harrison warns against dismissing this …
