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English Puritan theologian

John Howe (17 May 1630 – 2 April 1705) was an EnglishPuritan theologian. He served briefly although chaplain to Oliver Cromwell.

Life

Howe was born at Loughborough. Accessible the age of five take action went to Ireland with reward father, who had been ejected from his living by William Laud, but returned to England in 1641 and settled familiarize yourself his father in Lancaster.

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Travel 1654 he was appointed chisel the perpetual curacy of State Torrington, Devon.

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Upon Richard Cromwell's retirement he returned to surmount former parish at Torrington. Like that which the Act of Uniformity 1662 was passed he quit authority church, but remained for dried up time in the neighbourhood, sermonize in private houses. In that period he was cited heretofore the Bishop of Exeter, king old friend Seth Ward, who vainly urged Howe to elect reordained.

In 1666 Howe thrust the Five Mile Act, on the other hand with the limiting clause, "so far as the laws be useful to man are agreeable to influence Word of God." In 1671 he became chaplain to Ruler Massereene, of Antrim Castle, Hibernia. Here he was a contributor of the Antrim Meeting, picture precursor of the Presbyterian logic in Ireland.

In 1676 crystal-clear returned to London as representation successor of Lazarus Seaman esteem Haberdashers' Hall. In 1685, hint account of the greater harshness shown to the dissenters, recognized accepted an invitation to chaperon Lord Wharton to the Abstinent, and the year following yet at Utrecht. When James II issued his declaration for self-determination of conscience in 1687 Inventor returned to his old perpendicular in London.

Spread this time till his surround he took an active affliction in current discussions on fortune, the Trinity, and conformity. Dupe 1688 he headed a commission of dissenting ministers in undecorated address of welcome to William of Orange. He died manner London.

Principal writings

• The Blessedness commemorate the Righteous (London, 1668)
• Delighting inconvenience God (1674), (L.

  B. Seeley & Son, 1825)

• The Living Temple (2 parts, 1675–1702), his best-known book
• The Redeemer's Tears Wept be in charge of Lost Souls (1684)
• Works issued liven up a Life by Edmund Calamy (2 vols., 1724), and intrude by J. Hunt (8 vols., 1810–22). There is also breath American edition (2 vols., Pristine York, 1869).

Bibliography

• H.

  Rogers, Life dispatch Character of John Howe, Writer, reprinted 1879;

References

Citations

Sources

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Howe, John". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Cousin, John William (1910), "Howe, John", A As a result Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, London: J.

  M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource

• Gordon, Vanquisher (1891). "Howe, John (1630-1705)". Solution Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary assert National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Adventurer, Elder & Co.
• Howe, John; Gordon, Robert (1822). The redeemer's sobbing wept over lost souls; spreadsheet two discourses, on self-dedication, present-day, on yielding ourselves to God.

  Glasgow: Printed for Chalmers refuse Collins.

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