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THOMAS ADAMS (d. c. 1655)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 181 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:ADAMS (d. c. 1655)  , See also:English divine, was, in 1612, "a preacher of the See also:gospel at Willington," in See also:Bedfordshire, where he is found until 1614, and whence issued his See also:Heaven and See also:Earth Reconciled, The See also:Devil's Banquet and other See also:works . In 1614–1615 he was at Wingrave, in See also:Buckinghamshire, probably as See also:vicar, and published a number of works in See also:quick See also:succession; in 1618 he held the preachership at St See also:Gregory's, under St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral, and was "observant See also:chaplain" to See also:Sir See also:Henry Montague, the See also:lord See also:chief See also:justice of See also:England . These See also:bare facts we gather from epistles-dedicatory and epistles to the reader, and See also:title-pages . These epistles show him to have been on the most friendly terms with some of the foremost men in See also:state and See also:church, though his ardent protestantism offended See also:Laud and hindered his preferment . His "occasionally" printed sermons, when collected in 1629, placed him beyond all comparison in the See also:van of the preachers of England, and had something to do with shaping See also:John See also:Bunyan . He equals See also:Jeremy See also:Taylor in brilliance of fancies, and See also:Thomas See also:Fuller in wit . See also:Robert See also:Southey calls him "the See also:prose See also:Shakespeare of Puritan theologians." His numerous works display See also:great learning, classical and patristic, and are unique in their abundance of stories, anecdotes, aphorisms and puns . His works were edited in J . P . See also:Nichol's Puritan Divines, by J . See also:Angus and T . See also:Smith (3 vols .

8vo, 1862) .

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