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by Arthur Eedle
Frederick William Faber was born 28th June 1814 at Calverly, Yorkshire, England. He grew up in an atmosphere of Calvinism, and attended University College, Oxford, where he obtained his B.A. degree. In 1837 he was elected a Fellow of that College, and took orders in the Church of England, becoming Rector of Elton, Huntingdonshire in 1843. [Read more…]
by Arthur Eedle
[Every Saturday the English newspaper “The Daily Telegraph” has a column entitled “Meditation”, and the author of the articles is Edward Norman. This recent edition is worth recording.]
PRIDE is a great inventor of religion. We set up ourselves and our needs, and then select religious beliefs which cater for them; our souls are fed a diet of self-satisfaction. We seek a God who will flatter our self-esteem; who will grant our wish to find meaning and purpose in life, who will preside over a personal universe of ordered and uninterrupted happiness; whose ways are our ways; whose provisions meet our wants; whose laws we can easily obey without personal cost. [Read more…]
by Arthur Eedle
There can only be three possibilities for consideration, which are as follows –
1. Christ died only for the elect, whether they be thought of as “chosen” in the Calvinist sense, or “believing” in the Arminiansense.
2. Christ died potentially for all mankind, but is operative only for those who believe.
3. Christ died in fact for all mankind, and this will be worked out fully in future administrations of His plan of salvation.
Let’s see what the implications are for these three alternatives. [Read more…]
by Arthur Eedle
I cannot tell why He, whom angels worship,
Should set His love upon the sons of men,
Or why, as Shepherd, He should seek the wanderers,
To bring them back, they know not how or when.
But this I know, that He was born of Mary,
When Bethlehem’s manger was His only home,
And that He lived at Nazareth and laboured,
And so the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is come.
by Arthur Eedle
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. [Read more…]
by Arthur Eedle
EXPOSED AS AN ERROR
Here is an extract from a work by Jane Leade, written in 1697, entitled “The Everlasting Gospel Message.” According to her writings, Jane first understood God’s Ultimate Triumph over sin in 1693, and in her last writings before she died in 1704 she frequently addressed this subject. Those who have sought to bring Jane’s writings to us in more readable form (i.e. Larry Hodges and Colleen Drounette) have done a good job on a text that contained strange language forms. Even so, something of the author’s unique style remains. Here then is the text, before any comment is made. [Read more…]
by Arthur Eedle
To complete this collection of essays on Ultimate Reconciliation, I should like to present an historical sketch, based on the lives of these two men, James Relly and John Murray, the former being one of the first preachers of Universalism in England, and the latter (one of Relly’s converts) the founder of Universalism in America. [Read more…]