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Post by mattmisk on Jun 14, 2008 13:14:18 GMT -5
A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel by Stephen Crisp (written in 1691) www.hallvworthington.com/Crisp/BabylontoBethel.htmlThis is an extremely awesome booklet/testimony. From the site introduction: "John Bunyan was a Baptist minister and an enemy of the Quakers, writing several books severely critical of the Quaker faith. He was also imprisoned for preaching without a license. Through the efforts of George Whitehead, another eminent Quaker minister, Bunyan was freed from prison by decree of King Charles II; showing that Quakers loved their enemies, returning assistance for insult. Bunyan's famous book The Pilgrim's Progress had appeared and was widely acclaimed as the greatest religious novel of the age. Stephen Crisp, wrote this contrasting tract, to point out the differences between Bunyan’s outward faith of rituals compared to the inward, renewal-of-heart Quaker faith, using a similar fictional account of a journey. The title has great meaning. He starts his journey in Babylon, the Protestant churches and Catholic churches of his time (and still today), the beast with horns like a lamb (imitating the church of Christ) and ends up, while still on earth, in Bethel (the House of God, the temple of God in New Jerusalem)."
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Post by Jesse Morrell on Jun 14, 2008 13:21:46 GMT -5
Very interesting. Thanks a lot for sharing this.
Bunyans opposition to the Quakers really disturbs me. I guess it is because he was a Calvinist and the Quakers had a pretty solid theology on free will and perfection.
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Post by Kerrigan on Jun 15, 2008 0:30:14 GMT -5
Thanks for posting. Sounds great. I would love to get a hard copy of this. Seems like they are all too expensive though...
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