Reformed Anglicans

Mr. Pink discusses the Canon as the Adjudicator on these issues. Plain, common-sense, cumulative and irrefragable evidence justifies Reformed Theology. The focus is God Himself rather than Calvin or other terms., TULIP is introduced with the caveat that the Westminster Confession gives the balanced and comprehensive system--TULIP is integral but put into a larger framework. Mr. Pink makes his beginning on total inability.

Dr. Owen exposes the corruption to the Trinity and His works by the Arminians. Election becomes God's post-election, following man's meritorious life of perseverence. Then God elects at the end of the dying man's life. It upends and inverts predestination. Episcopisu, Arminius and the Remonstrants clearly aver and affirm that God is often frustrated and fails of His designs. The more crafty and ingenioius ones, limiting the damage, refer only to salvation-issues allowing God to run the galaxies and nations. This resistibility to God's sovereign will is taught by Romanists, Greeks, Anglo-Catholics, ACNA and REC Bishops and others in the mainline and evangelical worlds, truth be told. NAPARC Churchmen are surrounded by doct rinal deficits between the ears of collars from seminaries. Time to fight back and exalt God. Slam the devilish profanations for what they are. Courage and clear thinking, with humility, with clear plain-talking, is the order of the day for collars and...

Rev. Toplady retails the Papal execrations and anathemetizations of Janenism and his work on Augustine. Many Jansenist propositions are Calvinist which, by inference, extends the condemnations to Calvinists and the Church of England (Calvinistic until it wasn't). Toplady also descants on the ignorance of Misters John Wesley and Walter Sellon, the latter being an ardent agent of Wesley. Toplady discourses on Aquinas's contradictions, Semi-Pelagian propositions, free will and more, in contrast to St. Augustine the Greater. The Church of England has lost this as have the mainliners in the United States including the PCUSA. The Biblical call to elevate, discourse and teach the doctrine of God has never been more necessary than for the 21st century. Such is the foundation for all church services, individual lives, and for others inside and outside the church. Law and Gospel. So, here we are in 2023 with only 550,000 Calvinists in the USA with a population of 330 million. "We...

Boettner discusses the Arminian view of foreknowledge which, if consistent with God's omniscience, must imply foreordination. Boettner untangles the knot ably. He cites the two Hodges of Princeton as characterizing Arminianism as an "elastic system" that bends this way and that way. Further, he claims there are few-to-no systematic theologies by Methodists. Three systems exist--universalism, Arminianism and Calvinism. In the next chapter, he will evaluate these three systems by the Canon and with the Canon, putting rounds downrange. Arminianism flatters the human. It's origin is the human heart. Calvinism is harsher about sin but lifts the sinner to joyous reconciliation with the justified sinner adoring God annd His grace rather than adoring the merits of his own salvific choices. This book should be in Theology 101 for an undergraduate student. It is a must read for the average, thoughtful Christian Churchman. It is unacceptable that state and private universities d...

Messieur Jean deals with the issue of "foreknowledge" as the purported predicate of "foreordaining," the well-known invention of Greeks, Romanists (espeically Jesuits) and all Arminians across the Protestant world. Calvin knocks the wheels off that Arminian tricycle with rhetorical and Biblical ease. Calvin notes the coordination of "foreknowledge" and the "determinate counsel" of God in Acts 2.23 and elsewhere. Calvin handily moves through Romans 9 with significant clarity and ease. We know only of Confessional NAPARC churches that follow the Reformed faith, the God of immutable sovereignty. This is not hard for an average, thoughtful laymen to digest. But, he will meet with proud obduracy from many, wishing to crow about their merits rather than God's salvific mercies. Or, they'll meet with shoulder-shrugging from so-called Christians who are cold to God's Word. Understanding of this produces humility, strength, and combat readiness...

Dr. Owen argues for the necessity of sound teaching on the Holy Spirit in light of Quakerism, Socinianism, and the uncharitable, puffy and persecutorial spirit of Restoration Anglicans against Congregationalists and Presbyterians. Thank God the WCF survived the attempted take-down. Not Anglicanism's finest century. 

Prof. Smeaton works over the words of Jesus in the Upper Room Discourse (John 14-17), the Gift and role of the Paraclete, Comforter, Advocate, Superintendent and Author of the NT church. He sifts the relevant words leading up to the significant, public, and solemn day of empowerment in Pentecost. He leaves off there as he continues his diachronic review of the Person and work of the Holy Spirit.

Jerome Zanchius reminds one of Lorraine Boettner when it comes to predestination: clarity, directness, Biblicality and sound thinking. Both men should be read and digested by the average, thoughtful Christian. Both men should be required reading in all seminaries and colleges, which, regrettably, is not reguired much less known. This is not Wonkyville from another planet, but straight-up Biblical thinking. Blind ingenuities, however, seek to blunt the edges and avoid this issue. This is theological malpractice and is criminal. Send the memo far and wide.

Arthur Pink discusses God's sovereignty over angels, evil and good, and over all speech and actions of humans. He speaks of Pharoah, bad kings, Satan, and more. He then begins to broach the soteriological issue of predestination until eternal life. "As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed." Pink notes that many ingeniously strive against this, saying, "We will not have this Man to rule over us." It comes in all manner of denominational shades: Romanists, Greeks, Arminians of all stripes in the evangelical and Anglican world and is denied in the Pelagian world of the TEC. It is the pride of the human idol factory that disallows (tries to disallow) God's sovereignty. Many in collars and robes want the "bennies" without the foundation and sure anchor for mind and soul. They may even want a BCP but still try to blunt the edges off God's absolute sovereignty.

John Owens continues to explicate (and a few sentences "complicate") the issue of God's eternal and immutable will in relation to His revealed will. Believe and follow, as Moses directed Pharoah (Pharoah's duty), yet, the secret will involved Pharoah's obtuseness and obduracy. The same for Judas and other reprobates.

"Doctrinal Calvinism in the Church of England," informing Prayer Book Anglicanism.  Augustus Toplady offers numerous vistas here. He retails the articles of anathemas from the Council of Trent (1545-1563) posed against Luther and Calvin, notably Calvin, on predestination, free will and grace. Trent opposed and anathematized Calvinism (Luther was as adamant about double-predestination as Calvin as were all Reformers). From Hence, Toplady moves on to study Janenius, a Romanist prelate, who adopted Augustine's views yet maintained that Calvin misrepresented Augustine. The larger point in the context of Toplady is that Arminianism is the cousin and relative of Arminianism (contra the "Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England"), Perhaps Toplady's memo can be sent to ACNA and REC Bishops as well as all Continuing Anglicans. It might help to dislodge their Arminian and Romewardizing doctrines.