J.C. Ryle, A Biographical Account of William Gurnall:
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For my own, part, I can only say that I read everything I can get hold of which pro-fesses to throw light on my Master’s business, and the work of Christ among men. But the more I read, the less I admire modern theology. The more I study the produc-tions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writing. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shal-lowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the ‘broader and kinder systems,’ as they are called, which, to my mind, stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy. I find more of definite soul-satisfying thought in one page of Gurnall than in five pages of such books as the leaders of the so-called ‘Broad Church School’ put forth. In matters of theology ‘the old is better.’
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Editor, The Matthew Poole Project
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