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Originally Posted by Ohio
OK. I never did get to how Darby treated Muller.
Also, I am not completely "negative" on Darby, or Lee, to be honest and fair. For years I admired them as "Ministers of the Age." The Brethren historian F. Roy Coad (A History of the Brethren Movement) summarized for me the best description of J. Darby, and W. Lee too for that matter, "with John Darby there is so much good to say, and so much more wrong."
It was not until I understood Darby fairly, that I could really understand Lee. If I sound too harsh on these two ministers, then I apologize to all. It is only because I excessively eulogized them for decades, and perhaps I now am only attempting to rectify past errors. Both of them did much work for the Lord, yet like Diotrephes, they had to be first among the brethren.
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I was not offended by your remarks. Actually it is I who don't want to offend you by my future post. I am sure you see things in another way because you read mainly books by writer closed to the Open Brethren and I read those written by the Close Brethren. I am taking my time, going through things I read in the past and things I didn't read in the past, and considering of including a little study on W. Lee most aberrant teaching concerning the humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ. On this point I am really sad and outraged. On other points I could really be more lenient, considering them just different views, but if anyone mars the blessed Person of Christ he would be treated accordingly.
Would you please consider to read some of this articles before I give my "history"?
1. STEM Publishing: Hamilton Smith: Open Brethren,
http://www.stempublishing.com/author.../OPENBRET.html
2. STEM Publishing: William Kelly: The Doctrine of Christ, and Bethesdaism.
http://www.stempublishing.com/author.../dochrist.html
3. STEM Publishing: J. N. Darby: The Bethesda Circular
http://www.stempublishing.com/author...NE/15009E.html
4. STEM Publishing: W. Trotter: The Origin of (so-called) Open-Brethrenism.
http://www.stempublishing.com/author.../Openbret.html
5. STEM Publishing : Magazines : The Bible Treasury : Volume 13 : "Open" "Exclusivism"
http://www.stempublishing.com/magazi...clusivism.html
6. STEM Publishing: J. N. Darby: Indifference to Christ: or Bethesdaism - extracted from a private letter
http://www.stempublishing.com/author...IA/20013E.html
7. STEM Publishing: J. N. Darby: A Plain Statement of the Doctrine on the Sufferings of our blessed Lord propounded in some recent tracts, in extracts taken from the Author's writings.
http://www.stempublishing.com/author...NE/15004E.html
8. STEM Publishing: J. N. Darby: The refusal of Mr. Newton to meet the brethren.
http://www.stempublishing.com/author...IA/20003E.html
9. STEM Publishing: J. N. Darby: Notice of the Statement and Acknowledgment of Error circulated by Mr. Newton.
http://www.stempublishing.com/author...NE/15005E.html
10 STEM Publishing: C. H. Mackintosh: Fifteenth Letter to a Friend.
http://www.stempublishing.com/author.../CHM_15TH.html
11. STEM Publishing: J. N. Darby: Notice of the Statement and Acknowledgment of Error circulated by Mr. Newton.
http://www.stempublishing.com/author...NE/15005E.html