Darby a Puritan?

[JM]

The way I see it, the mindset of the Dispensationalist was a direct result of the reformation doctrine of Sola Scriptura/the Puritan high view of Scripture. Our whole life is based on and around the Bible. The Puritans loved the Word of God and preached just the Word. The dispensationalist takes this step further by allowing the the Word to read in a literal or plain manner more consistantly.

I believe Darby was influanced by the Puritan understanding of the purity of the Church, which lead him to become a separatest. Other points in common would be the preaching of the Word for sound doctrine, the right and activity of the church to discipline, strong Pastoral leadership and organized Biblical worship. Applying theology in a more consistant manner should also be considered a step forward made by the early Dispensationalists.

Ok, I've said my I had to say. (right or wrong I said it)

 

[R.J.S]

The way I see it, the mindset of the Dispensationalist was a direct result of the reformation doctrine of Sola Scriptura/the Puritan high view of Scripture. Our whole life is based on and around the Bible. The Puritans loved the Word of God and preached just the Word. The dispensationalist takes this step further by allowing the the Word to read in a literal or plain manner more consistantly.

I believe Darby was influanced by the Puritan understanding of the purity of the Church, which lead him to become a separatest. Other points in common would be the preaching of the Word for sound doctrine, the right and activity of the church to discipline, strong Pastoral leadership and organized Biblical worship. Applying theology in a more consistant manner should also be considered a step forward made by the early Dispensationalists.

Ok, I've said my I had to say. (right or wrong I said it)

It is good to see a dispensationalist forum here. I am in the assemblies and hold to 'classical' dispensationalism

 

[Ebb]

The English Puritans, along with Scottish Presbyterians, wrote Covenant Theology into the Westminster Confession of Faith in 1646. The dispensationalism that Darby introduced was a completely different concept from that of the Puritans.

 

[Ebb]

A few quotes will show the great difference between the Puritans and Darby. The Puritans looked forward to the conversion of the Jews into the Church:

‘Now, Christians, the more great and glorious things you expect from God, as the downfall of antichrist, the conversion of the Jews, the conquest of the nations to Christ, the breaking off of all yokes, the new Jerusalem’s coming down from above, the extraordinary pouring out of the Spirit, and a more general union among all saints, the more holy, yea, the more eminently holy in all your ways and actings it becomes you to be.’

"‘Then, after praying for ministers of the Gospel, and for her own family, she [Elizabeth Heywood] petitioned “for the church of God, that the Jews might be converted, and that the gospel might be preached to the remainder of the Gentile nations”.

Sometimes the call to prayer had special reference to the Jews. John Owen, preaching before the House of Commons in 1649, speaks of ‘the bringing home of his ancient people to be one fold with the fulness of the Gentiles . . . in answer to millions of prayers put up at the throne of grace, for this very glory, in all generations’. At the same period, days of prayer and humiliation were kept in Scotland, one particular object being ‘That the promised conversion of his ancient people of the Jews may be hastened’.

Cotton Mather, the New England Puritan leader, notes in his diary:‘This Day, from the Dust, where I lay prostrate before the Lord, I lifted up my Cries…. for the conversion of the Jewish Nation, and for my own having the Happiness, at some time or other, to baptise a Jew that should by my Ministry be brought home unto the Lord.’

‘Let us remember’, says Lachlan Mackenzie, ‘that the Church was 4,000 years praying for the appearance of the Messiah. We have not been praying the half of that time for the conversion of the Jews and the fulness of the Gentiles.’

http://www.revival-library.org/catalogues/puritan/murrayi-puritanhope/05.htm

In contrast to Darby:

"The Jewish nation is never to enter the church."16

16.J.N. Darby, The Hopes of the Church of God (London: G. Morrish, n.d.), p.106


http://www.icdc.com/~dnice/disp.html

 

[R.J.S]

The English Puritans, along with Scottish Presbyterians, wrote Covenant Theology into the Westminster Confession of Faith in 1646. The dispensationalism that Darby introduced was a completely different concept from that of the Puritans.

I dont believe that SP was arguing that Darby was a covenalist but rather that one could trace the germ of dispensationalism in the puritans. I think

 

[JM]

I dont believe that SP was arguing that Darby was a covenalist but rather that one could trace the germ of dispensationalism in the puritans. I think

Yes RJS, you're correct.

 

[R.J.S]

Yes RJS, you're correct.

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