Of So Frightful Mien
Alexander Pope: “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen; But … Continue reading Of So Frightful Mien
Yon Wake Your Fire
As far as I know this is by an anonymous author (“yon wake”? A Scottish author?): True as the object … Continue reading Yon Wake Your Fire
Hypocritical Fulminations
Here’s Charles Wesley hypocritically fulminating against the Calvinists of his day (his poem is entitled The Horrible Decree: Sinners, abhor … Continue reading Hypocritical Fulminations
A chimp-god?
A W.G.T. Shedd footnote from his “Sermons to the Natural Man” (courtesy of project Gutenberg): “Footnote 3: Infidelity is constantly … Continue reading A chimp-god?
John Wesley (2)
Wesleyan theologian H. Orton Wiley writes: “The Wesleyan Doctrine. John Wesley greatly improved the later Arminian position, purging it from … Continue reading John Wesley (2)
John Wesley (1)
Just some historical stuff about the heretic John Wesley from Alan C. Clifford’s Atonement and Justification: English Evangelical Theology 1640 … Continue reading John Wesley (1)
Deep Help from a Dead Friend
John Piper writes: Few people have helped me with the interconnection of thinking and feeling more than the eighteenth-century New … Continue reading Deep Help from a Dead Friend
The Main Point of the book
Piper on the main point of his book: Two passages of Scripture provide the main point of this book. The … Continue reading The Main Point of the book
Withstanding Paul: Piper and Edwards
John Piper writes: Enflamed to Preach by Romans 9 I left in search of a new life of exultation over … Continue reading Withstanding Paul: Piper and Edwards
Importunate Insurgence
To quote from Piper’s Think (with a re-quoted portion for context’s sake): “For me, seeing has meant savoring. And the … Continue reading Importunate Insurgence
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