… campaigner for educational reform
Public School expert Edward C. Mack said the poet William Cowper was a lone voice in campaigning for reform in eighteenth century English schools 1 . This may surprise poetry lovers who have not yet discovered Cowper’s writings on education. Cowper’s most neglected long poem Tirocinium or a Review of Schools, for instance, deals in detail with educational reform. Parents thinking of home-schooling their children as a legal alternative …
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… with the Kingdom of God established in his heart. What a change!
Taken from pp. 48-49, 52-54 in William Huntington: Pastor of Providence.
My reason for publishing this account of William Carey and his Indian mission on my website.
On 18-21 February, 2010 a conference will be held at Muscle Shoals, Alabama under the theme ‘The Quagmire of Hyper-Calvinism’. The key speaker will be Dr. Michael Haykin who will lecture on Andrew Fuller as a missionary pioneer. The myth that Andrew Fuller pioneered a missionary movement is superstitiously believed by Dr. Haykin and his …
Reflections on Some Recent Banner of Truth Criticisms Regarding William Huntington and Avarice
Aug 17
… of churches on a sinecure basis which brought them in huge sums. Others such as Dr John Cowper, William Cowper’s father, combined his pastorate with a lucrative sinecure governmental position. Be that as it may, when the news of Huntington’s salary travelled through the London churches, pastored by ex-public school boys and university graduates who were often paid far less, criticism grew. How could an untrained labourer earn as much as a university graduate? Thomas Scott, who always …
… absorbed into the British Empire and in 1800, Lord Wellesley, the Governor-General, founded Fort William College at Calcutta for the instruction of imperial civil servants. Chaplain David Brown, a faithful and energetic Anglican supporter of the Mission, was chosen by Wellesley as Provost. Brilliant scholars were appointed for the various posts and Brown insisted that Carey was the man most fitted to become Professor of Bengali as he had shown his academic abilities in his translation work …
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It is understandable that one who identified himself so closely with the English Reformers, Whitfield and the Marrow Men should be criticised by Arminians. For Huntington, Arminians were Antinomians who rejected the condemning and convicting use of the law in evangelism, inviting sinners to approach God “as if they had never apostatized”. They believed that man was not …
Iain Murray’s Controversy
Dec 15
… therefore point out that the argument that I denigrate 18th century evangelical contemporaries of William Huntington in all denominations is entirely unwarranted. Anyone who has read my recent articles 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 …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… 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 (1558-1602): Preacher of Law and Grace
William Romaine …
Hold Fast
Aug 17
… and explored a number of Reformed Biblical truths undiscovered by the Puritans. On considering William Huntington’s winnowing work alone, Hazleton confesses “Upon these points, mainly through Mr. Huntington’s writings, the Church of God has more light than in the days of the Puritans.”
Hazleton’s main emphasis is on 18th and early 19th century witness and in this section he relates home-truths about old paths which modern new-way evangelicalism has lost. Commenting on …
Welcome
Aug 17
… and Hyper, though he is far more Sublapsarian than Calvin himself. One can also add to this list William Romaine, Augustus Toplady, Robert Traill, James Hervey, William Huntington and all those of like calibre who are now frowned on by our Reformed Establishment, though they were pillars of the faith and men who moved mountains in their day.
A second aim of this web site is to introduce readers to some of God’s servants who, though convinced, sturdy Christians, allowed their zeal in …
