Edward Fisher (theologian)

While this attribution of the book to Fisher is commonly accepted, it is contested by Alexander Gordon in the Dictionary of National Biography who considers it unlikely on internal evidence.He based the obligation of the Lord's day purely on ecclesiastical authority, declining to consider it Sabbath.The publications uncontroversially identified as his are: Thomas Tanner, in his 1721 edition of Anthony Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, identified Edward Fisher with E. F., the author of the Marrow of Modern Divinity; and the identification has been accepted by Philip Bliss, John Hill Burton, and others.The author of the Marrow has been described as 'an illiterate barber,' but nothing seems known of him except that in his dedication to John Warner, the lord mayor, he speaks of himself as a 'poore inhabitant' of London.The following publications, all cast into the form of dialogue, and bearing the imprimatur of puritan licensers, are ascribed to the same hand:[3]
Marrow ControversyAuchterarder CreedMarrow of Modern DivinityMarrow BrethrenThomas BostonJames HogEbenezer ErskineRobert RiccaltounRalph ErskineAssociate PresbyteryNeonomiansJames HadowGeneral AssemblyRepublication of the Covenant of WorksAssuranceFree offer of the gospelCovenant theologyLaw and GospelAntinomianismLegalismSola fideRepentanceunconditional graceAlexander GordonDictionary of National BiographyMickleton, Gloucestershiregentleman commonerBrasenose College, OxfordPuritansSabbathCarmarthenSomersJohn CollingesGiles CollierSeventh Day Baptists of AmericaThomas TannerAnthony WoodPhilip BlissJohn Hill BurtonGeorge GrubJeremiah BurroughesWilliam StrongJoshua SpriggeJoseph CarylHenry RolleChristian Focus PublicationsJohn Edwardspublic domainPost-Reformation Digital LibraryLibriVox