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Biographical Sketch of John Calvin by Unknown
Calvin was born in Noyon, France, on July 10, 1509. He received formal instruction for the priesthood at the Collège de la Marche and the Collège de Montaigue, branches of the University of Paris. Encouraged by his father to study law instead of theology, Calvin also attended universities at Orléans and Bourges.
Edwards and the New England Theology | The Period of Edwards' Preparation by Benjamin B. Warfield
It was a very decadent New England into which Edwards was born, on 5th October 1703. The religious fervor which the' Puritan immigrants had brought with them into the New World had not been able to propagate itself unimpaired to the third and fourth generation.
Jonathan Edwards' Place In The History of Christian Thought by John H. Gerstner
There has been considerable debate over whether Edwards was the last of the medieval Scholastic theologians or the first of the modern American philosophertheologians. The advocates of the former position point especially to his views of biblical authority, God and the Devil, heaven and hell. The latter are impressed with his development of Newtonian and Lockean thought, which was avantgarde in the 1700s.
A Memoir of Thomas Watson by Charles H. Spurgeon
Watson was one of the most concise, racy, illustrative, and suggestive of those eminent divines who made the Puritan age the Augustan period of evangelical literature. There is a happy union of sound doctrine, heart-searching experience and practical wisdom throughout all his works.
An Account of the Conversion of J.C. Ryle by Peter Toon & Michael Smout
Ryle was out shooting with his old Eton friend, Algernon Coote, and some others. In the course of the day, he swore in the hearing of Coote's father, a keen Christian, who rebuked him sharply. Ryle never swore again. This incident led to a lifelong friendship with Algernon Coote.
Benjamin B. Warfield - Biographical Sketch by Samuel G. Craig
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was born at "Grasmere" near Lexington, Kentucky, November 5, 1851 and died at Princeton, New Jersey, February 17, 1921.
Biographical Sketch of Jonathan Edwards by Unknown
The dream of most preachers is to have the proper balance of knowledge and zeal, brain and brawn, faith and works, head and heart. If there ever was such a preacher it would be Edwards.
Bishop John Hooper’s Letter of January 21, 1555 (Before Being Burned at the Stake) by John Hooper
John Hooper was burned at the stake on February 9, 1555, in Gloucester, England. This was at the time of the reign of the Roman Catholic, Queen Mary, who ascended the throne of England in 1553, after the death of the Protestant King Edward VI.
Christmas Evans by Robert Oliver
In the early 1790s (we cannot be certain of the year) a great congregation gathered near Llanelli, in Wales, for a Baptist Association meeting. No meeting-house would hold the vast numbers. Gatherings took place in the fields and a platform was erected from which the ministers could preach...
Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: His Life and Ministry by Sir Fred Catherwood
With the death of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, a great pillar of the 20th century evangelical church has been removed.
Edwards and the New England Theology | Edwards the Pastor by Benjamin B. Warfield
Edwards was ordained co-pastor with his grandfather on 15th February 1727, and on the latter's death, two years later, succeeded to the sole charge of the parish.
Edwards and the New England Theology | Edwards the Theologian by Benjamin B. Warfield
By his dismissal from his church at Northampton. in his forty-seventh year, the second period of Edwards' life - the period of strenuous pastoral labor - was brought to an abrupt close. After a few months he removed to the little frontier hamlet (there were only twelve white families resident there) of Stockbridge...
Edwards and the New England Theology | Full Text by Benjamin B. Warfield
There are few names of the eighteenth century which have obtained such celebrity as that of Jonathan Edwards. Critics and historians down to our own day have praised in dithyrambic terms the logical vigor and the constructive powers of a writer whom they hold to be the greatest metaphysician America has yet produced.
Edwards and the New England Theology | Preface by Benjamin B. Warfield
JONATHAN EDWARDS, saint and metaphysician, revivalist and theologian, stands out as the one figure of real greatness in the intellectual life of colonial America. Born, bred, passing his whole life on the verge of civilization, he has made his voice heard wherever men have busied themselves with those two greatest topics which can engage human thought - God and the soul.
Edwards and the New England Theology | The New England Theology by Benjamin B. Warfield
It was Edwards' misfortune that he gave his name to a party; and to a party which, never in perfect agreement with him in its doctrinal ideas, finished by becoming the earnest advocate of (as it has been sharply expressed) "a set of opinions which he gained his chief celebrity in demolishing."
George Whitefield & His Ministry by J.C. Ryle
Who were the men that revived religion in England a hundred years ago? What were their names, that we may do them honour? Where were they born? How were they educated? What are the leading facts in their lives? What was their special department of labour? To these questions I wish to supply some answers in the present and future chapters.
How Spurgeon Learned of Grace by Charles H. Spurgeon
Born as all of us are by nature, an 'Arminian,' I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit, and did not see the Grace of God.
J. C. Ryle's Estimation of Whitefield's Ministry by J.C. Ryle
George Whitefield, in my judgment, was so entirely chief and first among the English Reformers of the eighteenth century, that I make no apology for offering some further information about him. The real amount of good he did, the peculiar character of his preaching, the private character of the man, are all points that deserve consideration. They are points, I may add, about which there is a vast amount of misconception.
John Albert Broadus: Preacher Extraordinary by Unknown
DURING the last half of the nineteenth century in America, no Baptist preacher enjoyed greater popular fame than did John Albert Broadus. By his Seminary colleagues, by denominational leaders, by competent critics of preaching, and by appreciative congregations, he was ranked as one of the leading preachers of his time.
John Welsh of Ayr by Maurice Roberts
John Welsh [or Welch], minister of the gospel at Ayr, and grandfather of John Welsh of Irongray, the Covenanter, was born of an ancient and well-to-do family in Dumfriesshire about the year 1568.
Laying the Warrior to Rest (An account of the Funeral of Charles Spurgeon) by Unknown
As was fitting and right, they brought him home to sleep his last sleep. They have laid him amongst the comrades who fought by his side, and fell only a little time before him.
Life and Character of Steven Charnock by William Symington
Stephen Charnock, B.D., was born in the year 1628, in the parish of St. Katharine Cree, London. His father, Mr. Richard Charnock, practiced as a solicitor in the Court of Chancery, and was descended from a family of some antiquity in Lancashire.
Personal Narrative of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards' own account of his early years and testimony to his own saving faith in Christ.
Philip Doddridge by G. Ella
It was June 26, 1702. After thirty-six hours labor, Monica Doddridge gave birth to her twentieth child. It was obviously stillborn and Monica's hopes were dashed.
Richard Baxter and His Gospel by Maurice Roberts
Richard Baxter was born on the 12th of November, 1615 at Rowton, Salop, and died at the age of 76 on the 8th of December, 1691. We meet here this evening to commemorate the 300 years of his death.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Iain Murray
Two men were working beside a fire in a quarry, one day in winter, when a stranger approached them on horseback. Alighting from his horse he began to enter into conversation on the state of their souls and drew some alarming truths from the blazing fire...
Samuel Davies: Apostle of Virginia (Part I of II) by Thomas Talbot Ellis
Some years ago the late Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones said to an audience in the United States, 'You Americans do not know one of your greatest preachers'. He then pronounced a name almost unknown — the name, 'Samuel Davies'.
Samuel Davies: Charactestics of His Life And Message (Part II of II) by Thomas Talbot Ellis
Samuel Davies lived in a time and place when God mercifully sent His Spirit in gracious showers of awakening, and convincing, and — bless God! — converting power. Such effusions belong to God either to give or to withhold; with this we have nothing to do. Nevertheless, we may consider the kind of man upon whose ministry God was pleased to pour out His Spirit.
Samuel Rutherford by John Howie
Samuel Rutherford, a gentleman by extraction, having spent some time at the grammar school, went to the University of Edinburgh, where he was so much admired for his pregnancy of parts, and deservedly looked upon as one from whom some great things might be expected, that in a short time, though then but very young, he was made Professor of Philosophy in that University.
The Death of "Stonewall" Jackson by J. William Jones, D.D.
Since he lived such a life, it was to be expected that he would die a glorious death. In the full tide of his splendid career, just as he was completing what he regarded as the most successful military movement of his life, with high ambition and bright hopes for the future, he was shot down by the fire of his own men...
The Death Of John Bunyan by George Offor
The death of John Bunyan occurred on 31st August 1688, just over three hundred years ago. Bunyan was born at Elstow near Bedford in 1628. He came under the powerful work of the Spirit of God about 1650. He was pastor at Bedford for sixteen years, died at Holborn and was buried in Bunhill Fields. The following account of his death is by George Offor, written in his Memoirs of 1862.
The Death of Thomas Bilney by J. H. Merle d'Aubigné
Thomas Bilney, 'whose conversion had begun the Reformation in England' was, in God's hands, the instrument of Hugh Latimer's conversion. The story of his life 'in strength and weakness', leading to his martyrdom in 1531, is eloquently recorded in The Reformation of England, volumes 1 and 2 by J. H. Merle d'Aubigné. These volumes trace the history of the Reformation from its earliest origins to the end of the reign of Henry VIII. Written in a lively evangelical spirit, they are both instructive and heart-warming. The following extract comes from volume 2.]
The Faithful Elder by Archibald Alexander
J. L— was the son of pious parents in humble circumstances. He was brought up to labor on the farm, and was restrained from open vice by his religious education, and by a regard to the authority and feelings of his parents.
The Life and Ministry of Richard Baxter by Lynell Friesen
It was on the 12th of November, 1615, that Richard was born to Beatrice Adeney and Richard Baxter in his mother’s home at Rowton in the County of Shropshire. “The year after he was born William Shakespeare died, and twelve years before his birth Thomas Cartwright, the great puritan leader of Elizabeth’s reign had died.”
The Life of Robert Murray McCheyne (1813 - 1843) by George McGuinness
The memory of certain of God's people lingers long after their passing like the fragrance of a bouquet of flowers. Such is the case with the subject of our biographical sketch today.
The Martyrdom of Polycarp - A.D. 155-156 by Unknown
Three days before he was apprehended, as he was praying at night, he fell asleep, and saw in a dream the pillow take fire under his head, and presently consumed. Waking thereupon, he forthwith related the vision to those about him, and prophesied that he should be burnt alive for Christ's sake.
The Martyrdom of Thomas Haukes by John Fox
Thomas Haukes, with six others, was condemned on the ninth of February, 1555. In education he was erudite; in person, comely, and of good stature; in manners, a gentleman, and a sincere Christian.
The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards (1722 - 1723) by Jonathan Edwards
As Edwards father taught him, he always thought and studied with his pen in his hand. His "Resolutions" are, like Benjamin Franklin's, a set of rules of self-discipline that Edwards believed were a set of guidelines to live his life by. The first 24 were written in one sitting in 1722, and a total of 34 were completed by mid December. There are 70 total "Resolutions" the last of which was written on August 17, 1723. Edwards pledged to read them once a week for the rest of his life.
Thomas Goodwin by Alexander Whyte
Gentlemen. I have long looked for a suitable opportunity of acknowledging an old debt to a favourite author of mine.
Thomas Manton: The Man and his Ministry by J.C. Ryle
I will now proceed to offer a brief estimate of Manton's merits. For convenience sake, we will examine him in four points of view -as a man, a writer, a theologian, and an expositor of Scripture. Under each of these heads the reader shall have my opinion of the man whose works are at length about to be put within reach of the public.
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