The “Marrow Men” and the Gospel Offer

The Marrow Controversy sprang up as wild fire in the Scottish Presbyterian Church in 1718 through the re-publishing of a book called “The Marrow of Modern Divinity.” It was originally published in England in 1646, and was written (most probably) by a Gloucestershire scholar and gentleman called Edward Fisher. The book was really a compilation of Reformed writing including extracts from Luther, Calvin, and English Puritans, along with the authors interpretation and devel­opment of them in...