… 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 …
Posts Tagged William Whitingham
… 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 …
Sir:
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 …
Cox and Knox
Nov 3
… to accept any truly Reformed order of worship, including the Geneva model, to that end. Even William Whitingham who supported Knox against the Anglican Reformers until he went too far, wrote:
“And the Magistrates...... commanded that we should receive the French Order; which is according to the Order of Geneva, the purest Reformed Church in Christendom. Whereupon all agreed; and Doctor Cox with others, commending the same to the Congregation, gave thanks to the …
… to stay on as preacher. This request was granted him.
Searching for a compromise
William Whittingham took sides with Knox and the two caused a good deal of trouble in the church. This caused the Senate in February,1555, before the so-called Coxians had arrived, to demand that the church produced an order and Articles of Faith immediately. Lever and Parry thus strove to make a compromise with Knox and Whittingham. Knox affirmed that he would first ‘discharge his …
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 …
New Cowper Book
Aug 21
Sir,
It was good to read of Countryman’s appreciation of William Cowper who has also not been forgotten by others in this bicentenary year. After publishing, several essays and two rather lengthy works on Cowper in recent years, I forwarded a bicentenary appreciation this January to a Canadian publisher. It is entitled William Cowper: The Man With God’s Deep Stamp Upon Him and was scheduled to be printed by the late summer. Now I hear it will be …
