The Marrow Controversy

One of the most significant controversies the [[Church of Scotland]] has ever known, it began in England in 1645 with publication of a work entitled The Marrow of Modern Divinity. Authorship was traditionally attributed to [[Edward Fisher]],* but this seems improbable. An exposition of [[Federal Theology]], the book largely comprises extracts from Reformers, including Luther and Calvin, and from the English Puritans. It had gone through seven editions by 1648, when a second part was published: an exposition of the [[Ten Commandments]] which, like the first part, contrived a middle course between antinomianism and legalism.