J.C. Philpot
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Joseph Charles Philpot (1802–1869) was an Oxford-educated Anglican curate who resigned his orders in 1835 to become a Strict and Particular Baptist minister. He is remembered for his deeply experiential preaching and as the long-serving editor of The Gospel Standard magazine, which shaped English Strict Baptist piety for generations.
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The Eternal Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ - Author's Preface
When I was first led to advocate the true, proper and eternal Sonship of our most blessed Lord in the pages of the 'Gospel Standard,' and thus, as far as ability was given me, to 'contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints,' I little anticipated two consequences which have mainly…
The Eternal Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ - Part I
The language of complaint put by the Lord into the mouth of one of His prophets of old was, 'Truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter; yea, truth faileth' (Isa. lix. 14, 15). May not the same or similar language issue from the lips of His faithful servants now when they look around…
The Eternal Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ - Part II
There are two things which every child of God has the greatest reason to dread; the one is evil, the other is error. Both are originally from Satan; both have a congenial home in the human mind; both are in their nature deadly and destructive; both have slain their thousands and tens of thousands;…
The Eternal Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ - Part III
Whether we set forth truth or whether we expose error, and we can scarcely do the one without at the same time performing the other, the Word of God must ever be the grand armoury whence we take the weapons of our spiritual warfare. This is both apostolic precept and apostolic practice. 'Take the…
The Eternal Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ - Part IV
As one stronghold of the opponents of the true and proper Sonship of the blessed Lord consists in the various objections, raised for the most part by carnal reasoning, which have been urged by various preachers and writers against it, and as some of these objections are very subtle and, at first…
The Nature of the Redeemer's Humanity
To glorify his dear Son has from all eternity been the purpose of the Father; and both in the plan and in the execution has he manifested the depths of his infinite wisdom, power and love. That the eternal Son of God should take into intimate and indissoluble union with his divine Person the flesh…