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THE CALVINISM OF MARTYN LLOYD JONES 

CALVINISM AND GOD'S GLORY:
   
"The glory of God! This is the great thing that dominates all the thinking of the Calvinist." (William Williams and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodism)
 

CALVINISM AND EVANGELISM:
   
"Did you know that this was a fact, that every single person who was involved in the beginning of the great missionary enterprise in the 1790's was what was called a Calvinist? I dislike the use of these labels and extra-biblical terms, but that is a simple fact of history. There is a common notion abroad today that a man who holds these doctrines of grace is a man who does nothing and that he does not believe in evangelism. ... If a man knows God he will above all others have a zeal for the glory of God and the Name of God. He will want the whole world to come to God, he will be the most active preacher and evangelist of all." (Knowledge - False and True)

"Let us, I hope, once and for ever, put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not compatible. (I do not like these labels but as they are used, I must use them. Here is the greatest evangelist England has ever produced [Whitefield] and he was a Calvinist. Charles Hadden Spurgeon, the greatest evangelist of the last century confesses that he had modelled himself  - as far as he had modelled himself on anybody - on George Whitefield. And he was a Calvinist." (John Calvin and George Whitefield)

"The greatest evangelists this world has ever known have been men who have believed in the sovereign, free election of God." (Romans - Saving Faith)

CALVINISM AND PREACHING:

"I am one of those who believes that Calvinism should always lead to great preaching; and when it does not, I query the genuineness of the Calvinism. You cannot have great preaching without a great theme; and they [Welsh Calvinistic Methodists] had a great theme." (William Williams and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodism)

DEAD CALVINISM?

   
"I regard the term 'dead Calvinism' as a contradiction in terms. I say that dead Calvinism is impossible, and that if your Calvinism appears to be dead it is not Calvinism, but a philosophy. It is a philosophy using Calvinistic terms, it is an intellectualism, and it is not real Calvinism." (William Williams and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodism)

CALVINISM AND REVIVAL:

"The true Calvinist is concerned about revival. Why? Because he is concerned about the glory of God." (William Williams and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodism)

"True Calvinism is bound to emphasise the element of revival, the 'giveness' of the activity of God, the visitations of God. It is only since the decline of Calvinism that revivals have become to less and less frequent. The more powerful Calvinism is the more likely you are to have a spiritual revival and re-awakening." (William Williams and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodism)

"Calvinism of necessity leads to an emphasis upon the action of the activity of God the Holy Spirit." (William Williams and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodism)

CALVINISM AND PRAYER:

"Nothing so promotes prayer as Calvinism. Calvinists who do not pray, I say, are not Calvinists. These things follow the one the other as the night follows the day." (William Williams and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodism)

NEW TESTAMENT CALVINISTS:

"In other words, I am arguing that the first Christians were the most typical Calvinistic Methodists of all! I am just describing them to you. Not only the great apostles - Paul and others - but the people, the ordinary people - joy and rejoicing, praising God and thanking Him from 'house to house' as they ate their bread together. Peter can say of them: "Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, though ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice unspeakable and full of glory.' That is 1st century Christianity! It is also the very essence of Calvinistic Methodism." (William Williams and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodism)

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