THE FAITH THAT SAVES
The Westminster Conference Papers
124 pages. £5.95 inc. p&p (50p extra overseas)
Available from the Conference Secretary, the Rev. J.F. Harris, 8 Back Knowl Road, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, WF14 9SA
This little volume contains the historical papers read by the six speakers at the Westminster Conference in December 2004.
The slender nature of the book may seem to hide the considerable amount of research obviously lying behind the preparation of these pages. The lives of three significant individuals: William Perkins (1558-1602), Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) and Seth Joshua (1858-1925), and their various influences in helping to shape the ongoing development of the Reformed faith among churches in England and Wales are carefully examined. Three other papers: the Hampton Court Conference (1604), Sandemanianism (18th century) and the Welsh revival (1904), present interesting asessments of those events and reflect on what is to be learned from them for us today.
To know the religious history of the past is to have the discernment to evaluate biblically our present situations, and to understand some of the struggles of our Christian forebears. These papers certainly help in this way; but they are not bedtime reading!
John Appleby,
retired Grace Baptist missionary,
worshipping with a group of believers on a large housing estate in SW Shrewsbury
