… The above works show Hawker at his desk and in his pastoral work, his two volumes of Village Sermons and Sermons on Important Subjects reveal his faithfulness in the pulpit. The words contained in Hawker’s memorial tablet sum up Hawker’s prowess as a preacher:
“The elegancy yet simplicity of diction, the liveliness and brilliancy of imagination, the perspicuity and vigour of thought, the depth and compass of Christian knowledge and experience, with which he was …
Posts Tagged Village Sermons
Hawker’s Guidebooks to Zion
Aug 24
… with his living such a busy life. Nevertheless, Murray concludes that if we stick to Wesley’s sermons on justification and righteousness, we have a sound guide. Hervey, however, demonstrated for Wesley how those very sermons were the doctrines of Trent. Even when commenting on Wesley’s most erroneous doctrine of perfection, Murray claims that it “was not sufficient to deflect Methodists from what is basic to the Christian”.
Murray’s work is slip-shod and superficial with little …
… a Holiday Week at Olney. The Association of Baptist Ministers met here on Wednesday. We had three Sermons from them that day, and One on Thursday, besides Mr. Newton’s (Anglican minister) in the Evening. One of the Preachers was Mr. Booth, (Abraham Booth (1734-1806) was to become the pastor of a Calvinistic Baptist Church at Little Prescot Street, Goodman’s Fields some seven months later.) who has lately published an excellent Work called the Reign of Grace. He was bred a Weaver, and …
… that justification is through redemption testified to by Christ’s faith given to His elect ( Sermons ). Hooper argued that the faith of the justified rests on Christ’s previous justification of them. Faith is the gift of acceptance of what has already been wrought out. Hooper quotes Paul as saying “We are justified by faith, that is, we are just through the confidence of mercy.” The whereby and wherefore of justification is Christ’s electing love and sacrifice and prevenient …
… a different form of local government. The ‘villagers’ eventually formed themselves into Salem Village which is now called Danvers, the ‘townspeople’ forming themselves into Salem Town, which still bears that name. The accusers were on the ‘village’ side and the accused on the ‘town’ side. It is interesting to note that when one compares the total education of the accusers with that of the accused one sees how up-side-down Miller’s and Huftel’s theory is. On the whole, the …
… Preface, the work is a justification of his own prodigality away from the rigid doctrines of his village youth and discovery of a new home in the lax doctrines of Fullerism. Rather than deal with the history of Baptist churches, Oliver speaks of the emergence of Baptist communities. The resulting deconstruction of the old churches, Oliver maintains, was the fault of those who preferred old paths to new ways.
Oliver commences with the death of Particular Baptist John Gill, as a …
Where Olyott Got It Wrong
Mar 10
… this hardly recognisable mock-up of what Luther actually wrote stems from his 1521 series of eight sermons on the Roman Catholic Mass versus Protestant witness preached during Invocavit Week on Luther’s return to Wittenberg. It is thus an early work. Furthermore, in Olyott’s ‘quote’, unlike in the original, Luther sits drinking beer in Wittenberg with a certain Philip of Amsdorf. Obviously Olyott has confused Philip Melanchthon’s name with that of Niklaus von Amsdorf to give us this …
… Revival such as Hervey and Toplady were full of praise for the help they received through Gill’s sermons and publications. Hervey was particularly fond of Gill as he taught the sinner’s need of the imputed righteousness of Christ and Toplady loved Gill for the way he convicted Arminians of their faulty view of man. Hervey wrote of Gill who, “presents us with such rich and charming displays of the glory of Christ’s person, the freeness of His grace to sinners, and the tenderness of His …
