Showing posts with label Puritans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Puritans. Show all posts

Thomas Hooker on "The Lord's Prayer"


www.monergism.com has posted the following at:

http://www.monergism.com/updates/exposition_of_the_lords_prayer.php

It is written by Thomas Hooker, an anti-Anglican Puritan and American colonialist. This sectarian puritan had a falling out with some in Massachusetts. He left for Connecticut. Educated at Cambridge, he opposed the old Prayer Book. Nevertheless, we keep the good and toss the

CANTAUR Williams, 7 Feb 2012: Reconciliation Service Re: 1662 Ejection of 2000 Clerics


Again, we missed this service in terms of the news.   It occurred last month.  In conclusion, the CANTUAR concludes:  "...in taste, catholic; in feeling, evangelical; in expression, scholarly; in doctrine, orthodox."  Given that, shall we have Westminsterian theology with the old Anglican Prayer Book?  Bizarre.
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/worship/sermons/2012/february/

Puritans in Canterbury Cathedral


From the Canterbury Cathedral guide book: 

"Many of the Cathedral treasures disappeared at that time [1540, dissolution of the monasteries]. More destruction followed. During the Commonwealth period, Parliamentary soldiers rode into the Cathedral and wantonly broke the organ, the font, and many monuments. They burnt the Prayer Books and smashed the windows. For quite some years afterwards

Jeremy Walker of Ref21: A Recommendation for Lent


Here is an example of several things: (1) Rash Puritanizers, such as this Particular Baptist...whoever Walker is or thinks he is.  Or, whomever Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals thinks he is.  Walker calls himself a "Reformed Baptist" which is Anabaptism with predestination and a few add-ons.(2) As per the below, brash talk that evinces little decency, quietness, moderation, charity towards

John Whitgift: "Articles Touching Preachers and Other Orders for the Church, A.D. 1583


http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/articles1583.htm ARTICLES TOUCHING PREACHERS AND OTHERORDERS FOR THE CHURCH, A.D. 1583



Archbishop John Whitgift,
the third Cantaur of Elizabeth 1


WHITGIFT was elected
archbishop on August 24, 1583. He was confirmed a month later. The first act of
his episcopate was to issue, after consultation with the bishops of the
province, the following

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