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Whatever happened to the Christian Reformation which began under Martin Luther? When did it end? Or better yet, where did it end? Some would say in Puritan England. Others would argue that its terminus ad quem was in the failed Puritan experiment in Colonial New England. But the actual answer lies in the aftermath of the Great Awakening when the Congregational system gave up thousands of...

sins of the whole world and believed it the duty of all men who heard the gospel to believe it.”[27] Fuller was born into a Particular Baptist family whose soteriology was characterized by a refusal to offer gospel invitations and indeed, possessed a fear that indiscriminate invitations to all persons would actually reproach the sovereignty of God. Fuller began to question whether Gill’s system was true to the biblical injunctions concerning world evangelism.[28] This was the initial breach in the
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