… in the Spirit opens Heaven’s doors. Few books have blessed their readers as Hawker’s Zion’s Pilgrim, The Sailor Pilgrim and Zion’s Warrior. To believe that one is a stranger and pilgrim on earth but marching onwards to Zion is not just the theme of a revival hymn but the teaching of Scripture and the experience of every believer. Hawker shows in these works how the path upwards is strewn with grace, mercy and love from beginning to end. There is much personal testimony given here …
Posts Tagged Zion’s Pilgrim
Hawker’s Guidebooks to Zion
Aug 24
Clifford’s New Reformation
Dec 11
Sir: Dr Allan Clifford (Issue 7780) wants a New Reformation, built on his own mixture of Amyraldism, legal, fictive justification and works-righteousness, arguing that the old Biblical Reformation was wrong. I am suspicious of Clifford’s lip-rejection of Rome and denounce his false Protestantism. Clifford’s atonement is not the Biblical-Reformed doctrine on which our reconciliation, …
Receiving the antitype before the type
Most Baptists accuse believers in covenant baptism of confusing type with antitype. Actually, the boot is on the other foot in the special case of Carson who argues:
“Sins are washed away by faith in the blood of Christ, but they are symbolically washed away in baptism. Just as we become partakers in the death of Christ the moment …
… the parish clerk. William learned to read, write and study the Scriptures, enjoying Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress at an early age. He was brought up as an Anglican and found Christ in that church under the preaching of Thomas Scott, friend of Cowper and Newton. William’s uncle Peter, a retired soldier, encouraged William’s interest for gardening and foreign countries. William was apprenticed to a shoemaker at the age of 14, a trade which occupied him for the next 28 years.
Though …
Queen Elizabeth II’s Role in the Church of England
Dear Sir,
Archbishop Rowan warns against self-deception regarding the supreme government of the Church of England, seemingly unaware himself that there are no ecclesiastical, political or constitutional grounds for assuming Elizabeth II to be that church’s Supreme Governor.
At the Elizabethan Settlement, Cox, …
Dear Brother: What is the difference between Gill’s ‘free declaration of peace and pardon, righteousness, life and salvation to poor sinners’ and the ‘free offer’ and ‘duty faith’ of those who deny outright that Gill appealed to all men everywhere to repent and believe the gospel? The difference is that Gill keeps to the gospel as fulfilling what the law could not do, …
Like John Harding in his candid review of Iain Murray’s new book on Wesley, I was alarmed at the author’s exodus from Reformed doctrines. Could he not praise Wesley objectively for the good he did without having to side with him in his errors? Murray has lost his balance. Formerly he was pro Whitefield and contra Wesley, now he is pro Wesley and Whitefield is forgotten. Forgotten, too, are …
Part II: The Mission Prospers
The mission at Serampore prospered and spread. Carey was given the most prominent building in the city for the church in which he preached for the next thirty-four years. The town of Serampore, too, prospered as it proved an asylum of peace for fugitives from the Americo-Franco-British wars and it persuaded many wealthy investors to settle there. More missionaries …
… parents. First a few words about Cowper’s own education.
Christian parents, the Bible and Pilgrim’s Progress
Cowper was born on 31. November 1731 (Old Style) in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. His parents were of noble blood but the poet remembered them more for their Christian testimony rather than their genetic heritage.
Cowper was taught to read and write at home before starting school at the age of four or five. His first ‘book’ was a sheet of paper with …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
For those requesting me to give talks, please consult the list of topics below.
Alexander Nowell (c. 1507-1602): Teacher of Sound Doctrine
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): Poet of Purity
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1634): The Failure of the New England Experiment
Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778): A Debtor to Mercy Alone
Christopher and Mary Love: Like Name, Like Nature.
Cotton Mather …
