The Puritan Hope Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy PB
By:Iain Hamish Murray
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| Publisher | Banner of Truth |
| Year | 2023 |
| ISBN | 9781848714786 |
Today the Church’s hope in respect to her mission of discipling all nations is in eclipse. The world gives Christianity no future and evangelicals themselves doubt whether the cause of Christ can ever attain to a greater triumph before his Second Advent. Must the prospects for succeeding generations be darker than those of today? Can we even expect any period of history to intervene before the Advent of Christ? How can readiness for Christ’s coming be consistent with the belief that revivals are yet to be given to the Church? Such questions are brought to the fore in this book and the author, employing both exposition of Scripture and much historical and biographical material, sets out the case for believing that it is not ‘orthodox’ to indulge in gloom over the prospect for Christianity in the world.
Table of Contents
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Introduction |
xiii |
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Revival Christianity: England |
1 |
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Revival Christianity: Scotland |
19 |
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Unfulfilled Prophecy: The Development of the Hope |
37 |
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Apostolic Testimony: The Basis of the Hope |
57 |
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The Hope and Puritan Piety |
85 |
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The Eighteenth-Century Awakening: The Hope Revived |
107 |
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World Missions: The Hope Spreading |
129 |
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The Hope and Scotland’s Missionaries |
167 |
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The Eclipse of the Hope |
195 |
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Christ’s Second Coming: The Best Hope |
219 |
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The Prospect in History: Christ our Hope |
233 |
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APPENDICES |
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John Howe on The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit |
255 |
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C. H. Spurgeon’s Views on Prophecy |
273 |
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Notes |
285 |
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Index |
313 |
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Index to Scripture References |
325 |
About the Author
Iain Hamish Murray, born in Lancashire, England, in 1931, was educated at Wallasey Grammar School and King William’s College in the Isle of Man (1945-49). He was converted in 1949 through the ministry at Hildenborough Hall, Tom and Jean Rees’ Christian conference centre in Kent. It was at Hildenborough later that same year that he first met Jean Ann Walters, who was to become his wife (they married in Edgeware on April 23, 1955).
After service with the Cameronians in Singapore and Malaya, he read Philosophy and History at the University of Durham with a view to the ministry of the English Presbyterian Church (his parents’ denomination). It was at Durham that he began to read the Puritans, whose writings were to become a lifelong passion. After a year of private study, he assisted Sidney Norton at St John’s Free Church, Oxford, in 1955–56, and it was here that The Banner of Truth magazine was launched, with Murray as its first editor.
From 1956 he was for three years assistant to Dr Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel and there, with the late Jack Cullum, founded the Banner of Truth Trust in 1957. He left Westminster in 1961 for a nine-year pastorate at Grove Chapel, Camberwell. With the world-wide expansion of the Trust, Iain Murray became engaged full-time in its ministry from 1969 until 1981 when he responded to a call from St Giles Presbyterian Church, Sydney, Australia. Now based again in the UK, he and Jean live in Edinburgh. He has written many titles published by the Trust, in whose work he remains active. He is still writing.
