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- Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:25 am
- Forum: A Great Cloud
- Topic: Thomas Emlyn - Ireland - 18th Century
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Re: Thomas Emlyn - Ireland - 18th Century
In pursuance hereof [Emlyn] went over to Dublin, where he arrived May 1691, and became a settled Pastor along with Mr. Boyse to the congregation at Wood-Street there. Here he soon came into great vogue, and was a popular and much admired preacher, for he not only had a portly presence, a strong cle...
- Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:46 pm
- Forum: Quotes by Subject
- Topic: Protestant Reformation not a full Reformation of Doctrine
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Re: Protestant Reformation not a full Reformation of Doctrin
Thomas Emlyn wrote of the inconsistency of the Protestant writers in how they evaluate doctrine in his An Humble Inquiry into the Scripture-Account of Jesus Christ : But indeed nothing is more obvious than the unsteadiness of many Protestant writers, when they write against the Papists and the Unita...
- Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:37 pm
- Forum: Quotes by Subject
- Topic: Protestant Reformation not a full Reformation of Doctrine
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Protestant Reformation not a full Reformation of Doctrine
Below is the perspective of a rather insightful and candid Catholic, Sir Richard Steele. Bolded text is my emphasis: It is to this prosecution of Mr. Emlyn, that Sir Richard Steele refers in his Dedication to the Pope, prefixt to his Account of the State of the Roman Catholic religion, which is so g...
- Sun Jan 19, 2014 4:26 pm
- Forum: Quotes by Subject
- Topic: Damage done to Christianity by the Trinity doctrine
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Damage done to Christianity by the Trinity doctrine
From the satirical tract, The Trial of William Whiston , (1740): Mr. Whiston: I desire, Mr. Mustapha, that you would give the Court an account of the reasons that hindered you and many thousands more from embracing the Christian religion, when you were solicited to it by certain missionaries in the ...
- Sun Jan 19, 2014 4:18 pm
- Forum: Quotes by Subject
- Topic: Denial of Christ's Pre-Existence, or Socinianism
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Denial of Christ's Pre-Existence, or Socinianism
While here he contracted a very close and intimate acquaintance with Mr. William Manning, a very worthy Non-conformist Minister at Peasenhall in that neighbourhood...Mr. Manning took to the Socinian way, and strove hard to bring Mr. E[mlyn] into that way of thinking, but Mr. E[mlyn] never could be ...
- Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:48 am
- Forum: A Great Cloud
- Topic: Thomas Emlyn - Ireland - 18th Century
- Replies: 1
- Views: 37125
Thomas Emlyn - Ireland - 18th Century
Here's a great article giving some basic facts about Emlyn: Thomas Emlyn—Blasphemer or Advocate of Truth?
See his tract, An Humble Inquiry into the Scripture-Account of Jesus Christ.
See his tract, An Humble Inquiry into the Scripture-Account of Jesus Christ.