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His name is. Dr Dewey Roberts who is an author and he's the pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church of

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And today we are addressing his beautiful 436 page

hardback book Samuel Davies Apostle to Virginia and it's my honor and privilege

to welcome you back to iron sharpens iron radio.

Dr. Dewey Roberts.

And it's my honor to be on I

really appreciate it very much.

And before we go into the heart of our discussion today in regard to Samuel Davies Why don't you

tell our listeners who did not?

Hear you on the show the last two times you were on.

Tell our listeners something about Cornerstone Presbyterian Church of Destin, Florida.

And your congregation is a member of the PCA otherwise known as the Presbyterian Church in America.

Denomination, correct.

That is right.

Yes, and I've been a in this denomination before.

Well, praise God for that.

Well, I want to read a quote About the man that we are going to be

discussing today Samuel Davies by someone whom I'm sure is

a very readily recognizable name from the vast for the vast

majority of Our listeners in the iron sharpens iron radio audience.

I'm speaking of dr. D. Martin Lloyd -Jones.

He said of Samuel Davies The greatest preacher you have ever produced in

this country was Samuel Davies the author of the hymn Great God of Wonders

all the ways are Matchless godlike and divine and a man who followed Jonathan

Edwards as president of Princeton.

That's a pretty Powerful endorsement by the Welshman

dr. Martin Lloyd -Jones about this Son of America

Samuel Davies.

First of all out of all the people that have blessed the body of Christ

over the last 2 ,000 years why did you pick Samuel Davies to write a

For whom to write a biography.

Interesting how this all came to Samuel Davies when I was in seminary

I didn't know a lot about him because there simply wasn't much material.

Noah's.

I decided to take a few hours and try

to find Volumes of a four -volume

set.

This is great.

So that Readed my app

and then interestingly enough I mentioned it one time to to

write a biography

a long time because any

substantial biography There were smaller biographical

notices

great.

Well, I am going to now read an endorsement for this book exactly from the forward by

a very dear brother in Christ and Jeff Thomas who I had the privilege of interviewing on

iron sharpens iron radio, and I hope to have many more opportunities To interview this dear brother in

Christ but Jeff Thomas.

Who is a pastor emeritus of Alfred Place Baptist Church in Aberystwyth Wales?

And I learned how to pronounce that from Jeff Thomas because otherwise I never would have been able to pronounce it correctly.

Reading the life of Samuel Davies is a practical enterprise not something theoretical or archaeological.

Remembering him is to honor one who stood fast for the central important truths of the Christian

religion.

His life and opinions can encourage our own generation to believe in God and his

glorious grace.

And I will read one more Endorsement by dr. Michael a

Milton professor of missions and evangelism at Erskine theological seminary.

Dewey Roberts should be commended for this generous work in bringing forth this great American Presbyterian clergyman.

Back to the vanguard of spiritual giants where Davies belongs.

For this Samuel Davies who stirred the spirit of a young Patrick Henry.

May well be the one who stirs the spirit of some young person now to serve God in a new day.

Another powerful endorsement.

Well, tell us something about the childhood of Samuel Davies.

The the religious atmosphere especially of his youth if any and how.

Providentially the Lord drew him to himself and saved him.

Yeah, sure.

Sure very good idea and.

I've looked at it and studied it.

This is why I think that in Samuel

Davies the Battle of

Colt anybody In the United States

and then in the

Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.

The church where Davies put that on fire and burned

down by some kids were fighting one another.

And it's very interesting that it seems like that with the burning down of his church.

All memory of Davies

theologian and

I think he is the brewer

of the

finest

lager

that.

America has ever tasted.

Oh, I'm sorry.

That's Samuel Adams.

I.

Don't think that that persecution ended in Britain.

I think the some of our heroes who were Puritans unfortunately had their share in persecuting

the Quakers.

Yeah,

well from

that

and even

with

the

pointed out

product of that environment.

His father had

his mother he had married and then his

first Pennsylvania

Today are Delaware.

That's where he but Thomas

be.

Thomas earlier saw him at our Russian.

You think that for him to Martha

Thomas and therefore a relative of Samuel Davies somehow he kind of discounted it.

But I think he might be Somewhere another back because he's from

Wales and she was from Wales.

But then Davies father and they continued there for a

while now.

Chris, you're not gonna like this next part very well.

A couple weeks ago when I made a statement about infant baptism, you're not gonna like this next part.

Davies

mother wanted

education.

She wanted

to be a son to

read.

Because she didn't know how to read English herself about

that.

Well, the the long and the short of it is the Baptist

Church.

Kicked her out of the church.

Wow.

Samuel Davies

became a country that

well now he's one of the greatest Baptist.

Pastors in heaven because we know that all things are made perfect.

A.

Quaker

minister

who was

to

Pennsylvania up to Hopewell, New Jersey.

Yes, I am familiar with Hopewell.

Yeah, he went up there for to study under William Robinson at the time.

He was not arrangement not only from.

From the Lord and

again practice getting down on his knees.

The colonial days.

They had worked in now.

I lay me down to sleep.

I pray the Lord my soul to that was a

very Important prayer.

Many of them didn't make

it to it.

Something like don't.

Wow.

The

Lord was

working was not

at

that

time.

Nothing about the start.

God was working in his way in the life of Samuel Davies.

And so

Kenneth and

his brother

William

Robinson always marked his

giving him a new heart.

So then he

knew.

Shut down

the

school

kind

of like

Primary

that you might want to add.

Well, I know that the.

Great Awakening Did have impact in Virginia

and I don't know if I'm going too far ahead for your comfort here in the story.

But where does Samuel Davies come to play being the Apostle to Virginia as he has

been nicknamed?

Tell us something about the Great Awakening.

Okay, well the the beginning of the Great Awakening anytime you have a movement of God.

If you

could tell

us something about

what that means for our.

Our listeners who are unfamiliar with the revivals of history.

Great Awakening, of

course in

the

work is

always a work

of large numbers

You know mighty in a powerful way to revive a lot of people and bring them to faith

in Christ many different

Points where it's kind of like the one of those was

an area

where good Freeling house.

He's and Jonathan Edwards

and he writes about and large numbers

both young and old and then The

tenant brother how they got over in

each in the

gospel.

So they and

then his

student high water mark

and it came about

Primarily as the result of one particular By

Gilbert tenant and it's called dangerous of an unconverted.

I don't know of any minister and suffered more

any one sermon who

write in the

context.

He probably said some things about some of the other ministers and

put them in ways that he probably should not have but his doctrine

Was nothing other than the doctrine in the Sermon on the Mount

which everybody? sermon ever preached.

But in that Christ

tenants missing are some of these who pretend to be ministers the gospel in there

and you have to be aware.

Of them now, why is it that you have people in the 21st century still

criticizing tenant for that?

Are they saying that the men that the tenant was alluding to or

innocent of these charges that Tenant was bringing upon them, of

course anonymously.

Or what was the reason that they still what is the reason that some and I'm assuming you are speaking

of?

Men who would be biblically Orthodox who might be very close to the theological positions you and I

hold to.

That are still holding grudges against

tenant.

What is the

reason as one

person summed it up

people have done is.

Know what were what were the actual things that were going on amongst these clergymen.

That were that was bothering or were bothering.

Samuel Davies, okay.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

Yeah, it

was concerned

because that was beyond his capacity

involved in salvation either in

total or in part.

Wow.

Yeah, were these professedly reformed men.

Were these Presbyterians.

Yes, they were doing this.

And and I've

done in

various letters, but an

unconverted minister can.

Makes no difference whether the ministers converted or not converted.

And so tenant was standing up

against and quite frankly he was right.

He was exactly.

You know, and he was not the only one who did

it.

And what

they

felt that one sermon

Was like the

cafter that time they were reading

this sermon

and they decided wait a minute.

We don't can go out there and hear these

Revival preacher late

awakening began

to take.

Result

of that is if

you're going to a church They would say and your

minister is not preaching if he's not preaching the gospel.

Then you get up and you leave that church and you go find one that does

have a motto in this

country.

Don't think anything in

America.

Mm -hmm.

Now before we go to the break if you could tell us you said that.

The first.

Great Awakening is The second greatest revival in the history of Christianity.

What would you say was the first or the greatest?

It's the Protestant Reformation, okay.

With both the Reformation

and a revival.

John Calvin in preaching his sermons every week.

Have those transcribed by someone in his

congregate and many people and we

have to go to our first break right now.

And we'll pick up where we left off.

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Our discussion on Samuel Davies Apostle to Virginia with Dewey Roberts Who is

the author of a book by the same title Samuel Davies Apostle to Virginia a

gorgeous hardback 436 pages long and

Which has received some pretty stellar commendations for his hard work and

research into this into the background and history of this great hero of the faith and

before the break as you Probably remember dr. Roberts.

We were talking a bit about Gilbert Tenet and we were talking about the

Great Awakening and I don't know if you wanted to back up.

To include any other information about the journey of Samuel Davies.

Prior to that that I may have interrupted but that's up to you.

Where there's not

much information other than a few

he came to

faith He did not immediately

knowledge

of his

sinful small

child

will never realize that he in

fact in our denomination

Davies

persuasion that he

truly want to do

that.

During this time

18 ,000 Pete

everybody in

the air

and everybody else was there and he was wanting to be a minister

to God.

And after

Nottingham

a fags

manor, Pennsylvania.

And it's about five or six miles from from the Maryland border there and

Daniel Blair was starting an Academy

that was

that had been earlier that was called the log college By Gilbert Tenet

a 20 by 20 log building that that

that came up.

That college came up recently in another interview with someone and I can't remember Who that

interview was connected with but I distinctly remember that the log call.

Yeah.

Yeah, and in Pennsylvania supposedly on the main road

the log

college was seen by people who passed by that

Riders to have

come out of

there.

One of those was Samuel Blair who was

The guy

that

really couple

of years ago.

I went up there to see that location.

There's a man who was level in that area.

Now this location even today is so remote you would think.

There wouldn't be 12 ,000 people who could be gathered up if you took two or three or four counties and put them together.

It's just farmland houses a few and far between.

Came out.

He was the lawns keep it.

You know, he says I've been

told that George Whitfield people one time.

He saw me looking at their Samuel Blair.

He made that.

He began to show me some of the areas that could have been natural.

That

was

20 or 30 miles by to be able to get there.

And Davies in

Delaware and

his first teeth had gone down

to Virginia and people down

there now I told you

earlier

in Hanover

farming

area several of them Left

their local rectors with one another but

they just was not preaching

sermon told them to do.

To leave if they're not getting the end.

So interestingly enough.

Hmm.

The ministers

because about

anything

and everything except

in

that instance

the reading of the Virginia Gazette Without any minister being

and one of them was a man named stand

out any.

Thanks for that plug.

Yeah,

you know

writings of John Blake

couldn't make it

all the way

in there.

And there were so many numbers of them up in a different so

this brick,

Virginia at that time.

You didn't leave cited by

the Virginia government for what they were doing in and not attending at least once

a month at the local church the

local

a and governing council.

It was while they were

going there and

so one of

them farmhouse where he spent the night with the man

and the guy had a Copy of the Scottish confession of faith

and this.

So well, that's exactly what we believe at the Morris reading room.

So the next day meet with the general council in

the governor Virginia at the time was from Scotland

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Now we are back with Dr. Dewey Roberts, and we are continuing our discussion

on Samuel Davies Apostle to Virginia, which is also the title of his

phenomenal gorgeous breathtaking book hardcover 436 pages

and This is a book that obviously was a labor of love for our guests.

Dr. Dewey Roberts and before the break.

Dr. Roberts, you were discussing the Scottish confession of faith if you want to pick up where you left off

a copy of the Scottish confession as

Presbyterians once they

the lack of gospel preaching

that they're convicted of

and they got into contact

with

the

New excuse me, I forget the Presbyterians name just off the top of my head.

But at one time it was New Brunswick, but I believe it was a different one.

But nonetheless for them

one of those that they sent was a

man named William Robinson and when he started to

leave the people had collected or days.

And could you could you?

Forsake of those of us who are either foggy or completely ignorant of the

differences between the old light and new light.

Presbyterians.

And we

need a

savior

not

all

of them.

But they basically kicked out of their denomination all these ministers who were

a part of the revival in it

meeting.

Now if you could also compare that with as briefly as possible the difference between old school

and new school.

Presbyterians.

Professor dr.

Morton's

nature.

It was

like

ministers

would

say they believe

people who were

preaching The doctrines in

1837.

They were the ones the old school were the ones who was

the doctrines had been preaching.

Because the building that I am sitting in right now The old

manse as it is called fondly around here is the parsonage of George

Norcross Which was erected in the 19th century.

This is where the studio of iron trip and Zion radio is.

And the reason why it exists is that the parsonage had to be built for George Norcross because

he was the first pastor of 2nd Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Which broke away from 1st Presbyterian Church of Carlisle because 2nd Presbyterian was an old

-school Presbyterian Church and 1st Presbyterian

remained as a new school.

And I have some.

I have a book by George Norcross and A quote of his a lengthy quote framed with his

photograph on my wall.

And it's quite an impressive quote about his warnings against liberalism.

Encroach the encroachment of liberalism into the church and his warnings about it.

But anyway, I Didn't want to digress there.

That

they

just

couldn't.

The matter of the gospel you

bring the

Lord is my shin.

So that was their philosophy.

And of course the revival preachers just as

well, we're just as orthodox in

the 19th century.

And so new light

work of God in reviving us.

We believe in the fundamental truth.

That's where that great awakening was beginning

to break of man.

Davies a teacher William Robinson had gone there and the people before he

he left the colony.

Decided at Hanover, Virginia.

They decided to take up 40 pounds

the salary of and there

was quite a sum of money.

All that there was when he

found out about that.

He tried to return the money.

They said no you keep it.

He says all right.

I'll keep it in this one condition.

He says I know a young man right now whose circumstances are very difficult.

And he said I

will give

to him and try

him out.

So Davies went down and he registered

with the

people loved him.

But he

had not

yet

sunk

into

a

deep depression.

Six months

continued on and

on.

I don't want you to harm my listeners.

You're referring to of course the remnants of the flu that I had when I returned from Atlanta.

But he had

beginnings of

He did live

all

these different

people's

names.

What he did

was

he said he

and now.

The work of said your babies

there when he got there seven

different me.

The problem is they wouldn't let it ordained in the

press of the mountains down towards the Tidewater

region supply everybody

harsh

laws

Unpopulated

from

the

license

that

that he

got

involved

with.

Yeah,

we

did.

We have seven minutes before our final break, which is going to be brief and then you have a half hour after that.

Okay, so let me give a snapshot of what his ministry and great

look at those things or in detail I tell people that Samuel

Davies is the

greatest priest.

Secondly because.

No one who was more successful.

The Great Awakening particularly to one particular colony then.

Samuel Davies was in Virginia and he could be rightfully considered the second

greatest Evangelist.

Time in which he lived.

George Whitfield he also happened

second to him as no dishonor probably the second

greatest feel his time though.

His

Circumstance

could do a lot of studying and writing.

Davies was involved in active ministry.

He had to go out back hundreds of miles a

lot of effort any

responsibility.

Do you plan

on

publishing

it?

You know, I'm really thinking about that.

Very strongly come now that there's really

shows him to be an expert.

His sermons do this one of the things about

a theological.

You just at the amazing insight and he

was a man who only was able to.

Education work among would

have been

modeled by more

people.

He brought

them in to full membership in his congregation.

In fact, let me because I don't want you to steal too much of the thunder from our listener in

Slovenia Joe is he wrote a question about that and I'll read it to you now.

Dear brothers Chris and Dewey, please speak about Samuel Davies relationships relationship to

slaves and slavery.

Especially could you explain for us how Davies could have been so concerned about the spiritual spiritual condition

of slaves and yet own slaves slaves himself.

What was the mindset of that day?

Which is so different from ours that led Davies and others to to see

slavery as a political matter and not a church Matter.

Thanks so very much for your faithful service to our Savior.

Now, do you know

if

Davies

had any affiliation with the Coven enters.

Because I know that they were among the very first.

Christians in the south.

To believe in integration to be opposed to slavery.

And a lot of people are unaware of this that a solidly reformed denomination of Christians

in the south.

Were very adamantly opposed to slavery.

I think that the Coven enters in the south came after Davies.

It left a colony of Virginia.

They did not an

African American American issue the whites and

the blacks.

Right, but there were obviously there was a development that that took place here

in America in regard to the freeing of slaves because I know of Very famous individuals who did free their

slaves.

Right.

Amen and we have to go to our final break right now.

And by the way Joe in Slovenia Thank you for providing an American address where your daughter lives in

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Would you like to wrap up a thought or conclude in any way?

Yeah, I just want to say that

many people in America,

another war that was fought prior to that.

The French and

Indian War?

And it was important.

Winston Churchill

said

that if the

American continent had

fallen

under him.

The Protestant Christianity would have been persecuted.

Well, the colony that was most on the forefront of the battle

for the borders of

Virginia.

As far as their mines could go, they didn't know how far the other coast was.

And then after it got past some of the other colonies, it went north.

And Virginia was all the way up into the Pittsburgh.

He

was involved in that.

Washington considered the French and Indian War to be.

Now Samuel Davies was the minister above all others.

Who was primarily responsible for gathering.

Began to do that when they

rated the

greatest to fight the French and Indian War.

And I

say that

then, another

thing would be that.

Yes.

The College

of

New

Jersey was on very.

Which had basically been.

And they didn't really have Samuel

Davies.

And it became the college and later.

Primarily molded in Christian and Reformed theology.

But Samuel Davies

was in the

fundraiser.

Well, praise God.

You want me to read some of the questions that we have?

Yes.

Okay, we have Ronald in Eastern Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

Who says I know that Samuel Davies From what you have said

Was a preacher of repentance And other things that were being neglected

By other Presbyterians of his day.

But is there anything that made Davies stand out In other areas in

regard to his preaching and teaching.

That may have been neglected areas That even those from Biblically Orthodox backgrounds

Perhaps were overlooking or neglecting?

I just think

that simply the announcing.

Not only informed the mind.

So I'm assuming you mean by that.

That he preached with not only passion but compassion?

Preached with passion and compassion.

But he also, the thing that as

I read

Come back to the end

Part of the

person in

his

preaching.

Well thank you Ronald.

You've also won a free copy of Samuel Davies Apostle to Virginia.

So please give us your full mailing address In Eastern Suffolk County, Long Island So that cvbbs .com can ship

that out to you.

We have.

We have Bebe in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

And Bebe writes.

Was Samuel Davies Softer in his approach In regard

to the heresies of Quakerism Knowing that his family came from that stock.

And when I say was he softer in his approach I do not mean that he was Sinfully neglectful

about exposing their errors.

But I mean as far as the harshness With which many

Presbyterians and Reformed Christians Did treat Quakers.

And I would say this about Samuel Davies That as

I've

studied combined in

his life Not

a lot of

people can do that Bebe.

And I appreciate that question.

And I think that his background.

As I've thought about it over the years I think that his background With

his sister of

another.

A godly

anchor

in people.

Well thank you

Bebe.

You have also won a free copy of Samuel Davies Apostle to Virginia.

So please make sure that we have Your full mailing address.

In Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

We have Christopher in Suffolk County.

Pencil, I'm sorry.

Suffolk County, New York.

Christopher says That I know that there was a divide Amongst

Presbyterians At least in the United States Over whether or not Roman Catholic

converts Should be re -baptized.

Or whether their Roman Catholic baptism Was sufficient.

Do you know where Samuel Davies Stood on that issue?

But wasn't

Thornwell's position.

The one that was more widely held to.

Before that debate?

Right.

Yeah I actually have Thornwell's book on that And I agree with Thornwell as well.

Well I'm a Baptist So obviously I do.

But it's interesting And it's in my opinion refreshing To hear another

Presbyterian voice Standing up for Thornwell's position Which would reject A Roman Catholic

baptism.

Well thank you very much Christopher.

And you have also won a free copy Of Samuel Davies Apostle to Virginia.

Make sure we have your full mailing address In Suffolk County, New York So we can ship that out

to you.

We have John in Bangor, Maine.

Who says What do you think is the most crucial thing That we should be aware of In regard

to Samuel Davies Before the program is over?

I think his.

Our government His family and

my church.

It's about vitally

important.

Along with his defense of the gospel We've got other people who do that.

But his.

We have RJ in White Plains, New York.

Who says.

I know that Pato Baptists and Presbyterians Are divided over the issue

of Whether or not to view their children As a mission field.

Some Presbyterians and Pato Baptists Say that we are to view our children If

we are indeed Christians As Christian, as covenant children Until they prove otherwise.

Others would view them As a mission field Just as Baptists do And view them as

lost Until they prove otherwise By making a credible profession of faith And

repentance.

Do you know where Samuel Davies Stood on this controversial divide?

Now did that exist.

Other than the Eastern Orthodox Church?

Did anybody else do that In Davies' day?

Very much I don't know.

Maybe

infant

communion

Baptized in infant

They could not

have agreed

Or myself My wife and I

To evangelize them Just like we would anybody else.

Well I know from myself My understanding And my belief In

practice of infant baptism Does not impede me In evangelizing.

That's part of my responsibility To bring them up

And I would answer it that way.

And we have Harrison In Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

Who says.

I know that many of the great heroes Of Presbyterianism Pastored faithfully

in their churches But tragically Subsequent to their Ministries in

those churches.

Years later Those very congregations Collapsed under the weight Of liberalism

and apostasy.

Do you know if any of the churches Where Samuel Davies ministered Remain faithful to the scriptures

Even to this day?

Some of them I know Have gone into.

First of all they became PCUS.

And they've Denomination.

And so they've Drifted off.

And that's

The D. Martin Lloyd's

Nothing like 50 years ago.

Yeah that was just like In the 1970s right?

In 69 I think it was.

Okay.

Yeah.

But it's nothing like that.

And so that kind of

thing.

Sometimes a church Remains a great church.

I want to say that if You don't have enough books To supply all these questions Just let

me know.

Oh wow that's.

That's great.

I really appreciate that.

Yeah I want I want everybody to ask a question.

Well terrific.

Let's see here.

We have CJ in Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York.

Who says That.

I have heard on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio In the past That there remain Reformed

people Who remarkably Despise the legacy Of George Whitfield.

Are there such Reformed Christians today Who remarkably And

unbelievably Would do the same Or think the same Toward Samuel Davies.

I don't know The name of

the individual But

I

fought

with

him.

Amen.

And we have Christian In Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Who says Are there any

Plans to Provide Children With a work That they could understand

About this great hero of the faith As other publishers Have brought into print

A children's version Or children's versions.

Of.

The lives of great Christian heroes.

You know my editor.

On my book

Simplify it Simplify this Put

the children's language So people can learn about this great.

Amen.

And we're out of time.

And I know that your Church website is CornerstonePCADestin .org.

That's D as in David E, S as in Sam T as in Thomas.

I, N.

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.com CVBBS .com If they don't have it in stock They'll order it.

Any final words very briefly Before we go off the air.

I just want to thank you For being able to speak About Samuel Davies.

I consider him to be Not only the greatest preacher Of our country But the most

neglected Great preacher In Since the time of the Reformation

probably Less remembered.

And that's why I wrote this book Is to bring back his memory And to do justice To

one of our Greatest ever ministers.

I want to thank you so much For being our guest today With very little notice Brother.

And I look forward to you.

Returning to our program I want you all To always remember For the rest of our lives That Jesus Christ Is a far greater Savior

Than you are a sinner.