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WILLIAM BATES (1625-1699)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 510 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:BATES (1625-1699)  , See also:English See also:nonconformist divine, was See also:born in See also:London in See also:November 1625 . He was admitted to See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and removed thence to See also:King's College in 1644 . Of Presbyterian belief, he held the See also:rich living of St See also:Dunstan's-in-the-See also:West, London . He was one of the commissioners at the See also:conference in the See also:Savoy, for reviewing the public See also:liturgy, and was concerned in See also:drawing up the exceptions to the See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer . Notwithstanding this he was appointed See also:chaplain to See also:Charles, II., and was offered the deanery of See also:Lichfield and See also:Coventry, but he came out in 1662 as one of the 2000 ejected ministers . See also:Bates was of an amiable See also:character, and enjoyed the friendship of the See also:lord-keeper Bridgeman, the lord-See also:chancellor See also:Finch, the See also:earl of See also:Nottingham and See also:Archbishop See also:Tillotson . With other moderate churchmen he made several efforts towards a comprehensive See also:settlement, but the bishops were uncompromising . He addressed See also:William and See also:Mary on their See also:accession in behalf of the dissenters . After some years of See also:pastoral service at See also:Hackney he died there on the 14th of See also:July 1699 . Bates published Select Lives of Illustrious and Pious Persons in Latin; and after his See also:death all his See also:works, except this, were printed in r vol, fol.; again in 1723; and in 4 vols.8vo in 1815 . They treat of See also:practical See also:theology and include Considerations on the Existence of See also:God and the See also:Immortality of the Soul (1676), Four Last Things (1691), Spiritual Perfection (1699) .

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