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Preface
"Hold-Fast" A Sketch of Covenant Truth and Its Witnesses By: John E. Hazelton “Hold fast the form of sound words” (2 Tim 1:13) “An everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure” (2 Sam 23:5) --------------------------- The following pages are but a slight sketch of a vital subject; they aim in a simple way to show the continuity through the…
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Sovereign Grace Chapter 2: The Reformers Chapter 3: The Puritans Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century Chapter 5: The Church of England Chapter 6: The Independents Chapter 7: The Baptists Chapter 8: Literature Chapter 9: The Future
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Chapter 1: Sovereign Grace
“The Dawn of the Reformation” John Wycliff Sending Out A Band Of His Poor Preachers “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.”—Ephesians 2:8,9 In the crowded synagogue of Capernaum the Lord Jesus Christ, addressing many who had eagerly followed Him…
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Chapter 2: The Reformers
The River Swift, And Church, Lutterworth “The sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.”—Ephesians 6:17 The peaceful little Leicestershire town of Lutterworth, situated in the midst of beautiful pasture lands, has no more prominent object than its noble Church, the tower of which is visible for miles round. To it many travelers wend their way that they…
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Chapter 3: The Puritans
“In doctrine shewing incorruptness, gravity, sincerity.”—Titus 2:7 The seventeenth century is the era of the Puritans, who have left behind them a vast mass of theology which is the common property of the Church of Christ; the neglect into which their writings have fallen is an unmistakeable token of spiritual degeneracy, for the absence of their works from a minister’s…
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
"Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require My flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them."—Ezekiel 34:10 After the death of Oliver…
