Tony B
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Evangelical-Baptist | 20-Year Research Blogger of Mostly Reformed & Puritan Works on God’s Love, Will, Grace, and the Free Offer | Editor | Avid Book Collector
Joined October 2009
Here is an 18th century general Baptist (Thomas Davye) saying he has read Calvin, Paraeus, Zanchius, Perkins, Owen, Rutherford, Burgess, Davenant, Edwards, Crisp, Eyre, Luther, Arminius, John Goodwin, Pierce, Whitby, Williams, Baxter, and Sherlock saying Augustine was “staunch.
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I’ve said this before but it’s worth repeating: Invest more in high quality exegetical commentaries (e.g., NIGTC, WBC, ICC², PNTC, AB, ApOTC, BECNT, ZECNT) than you invest in systematic theological books. From all of the book hauls I see posted on X, few if any are doing that.
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This work by John Rippon and others has many names of pastors and ministers in Particular Baptist churches. I wonder how many of them were moderate Calvinists, such as Daniel Turner (pictured below) who said he is in agreement with Polhill, Howe, and Watts on general redemption.
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For all the young men out there engaged in retrieval work, I’d encourage you to find some way to archive your findings, perhaps on a blog or elsewhere. Compile them under subjects, organize them, and archive it all for others to easily access. Posting them on X is very limited.
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I’ll add this: All hyper-Calvinism is implicitly antinomian in that none of them think God desires your compliance to His commandments when you disobey. He only willed 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 to obey, not that He really *wanted* you 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺, otherwise you would have.
This is not meant to be a hot take, but in my experience, antinomianism is much more common in the Reformed world than legalism. The concept of "evangelical obedience" scares us. Many seem to want to ignore the fact that there are over 1k imperatives in the NT.
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On the Pyromaniacs blog, Dan Philips recently wrote an appreciation of John MacArthur, and made this passing observation about the biblical commentator, William Hendricksen. This (what is pictured below) was disappointing to read, but not surprising. Incidentally, as a
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I found this source earlier today. He cites from Cranmer, Latimer, and Hooper directly, showing that these early English reformers taught a universal redemption.
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@RichPierce14 @Soteriology101 @DrDavidLAllen Here is the latest example of White doing the very same thing he accuses others of doing. White for years has slammed @LostMyHats as “judging from afar,” and yet here is White doing that very thing in suggesting I am giving Allen his sources in his latest “Liberating Romans”
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RT @JaredOliphint: People often ask, "What should I look for if I want to start getting into philosophy?" A couple years ago, I didn't thin….
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Surely John MacArthur was the most well-known expositor of the 20th century, but it is debatable if he was the greatest. For those who love MacArthur’s teaching, you should check out S. Lewis Johnson (1915–2004), whom MacArthur himself greatly esteemed:
sljinstitute.net
About Us This site is dedicated to the teachings of the late Dr. S. Lewis Johnson, Jr. You can access more than 1,500 of his sermons using the menu above or by using the search function. SLJInsti...
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RT @gracetoyou: Our hearts are heavy, yet rejoicing, as we share the news that our beloved pastor and teacher John MacArthur has entered in….
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The only time I met MacArthur was at a Shepherd’s Conference in the early 1990’s that was held in Fort Worth, Texas. His sermon there on Titus 2:15 was outstanding! He signed my copy of his “Faith Works” book. It was also about the time his “Vanishing Conscience” book came out.
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The “he” is Christ “desiring” and the “you” were all the lost indiscriminately to whom Whitefield was speaking. Whitefield added that, “he [Christ] is 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 to clothe you with his everlasting righteousness.”.
Behold, he desires to take you to himself, miserable, poor, blind, and naked as you are.
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I hope there’s a way that we (who enter heaven after other saints) can see a replay of what it was like for them when they saw the Lord for the first time, as well as their heroes in the faith and their friends, like how MacArthur will soon see Paul, Lloyd-Jones, & Sproul again.
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It is interesting that Christopher Ash connects Psa 139:21 with Rev 2:6, and connects the hatred of the 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 of the Nicolaitans with the hatred of 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.
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