See also:EDWARD See also:FOWLER (1632-1714)
, See also:English divine, was See also:born in 1632 at Westerleigh, See also:Gloucestershire, and was educated at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, afterwards migrating to Trinity College, See also:Cambridge
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He was successively See also:rector of Norhill, See also:Bedfordshire (1656) and of All Hallows, See also:Bread See also:Street, See also:London (1673), and in 1676 was elected a See also:canon of See also:Gloucester; his friend See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry More, the Cambridge Platonist, resigning in his favour
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In 1681 he became See also:vicar of St See also:Giles, Cripplegate, but after four years was suspended for Whiggism
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When the See also:Declaration of See also:Indulgence was published in 1687 he successfully influenced the London See also:clergy against See also:reading it
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In 1691 he was consecrated See also:bishop of Gloucester and held the see until his See also:death on the 26th of See also:August 1714
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See also:Fowler was suspected of Pelagian tendencies, and his earliest See also:book was a See also:Free Discourse in See also:defence of The Practices of Certain Moderate Divines called Latitudinarians (167o)
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Tke See also:Design of See also:Christianity, published by him in the following See also:year, in which he laid stress on the moral design of See also:revelation, was criticized by See also:Baxter in his How far Holiness is the Design of Christianity (1671) and by See also:Bunyan in his Defence of the See also:Doctrine of See also:Justification by Faith (1672), the latter describing the Design as "a mixture of Popery, Socinianism and Quakerism," a horrid See also:accusation to which Fowler replied in a scurrilous pamphlet entitled Dirt Wip'd Off
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He also published, in 1693, Twenty-Eight Propositions, by which the Doctrine of the Trinity is endeavoured to be explained, challenging with some success the Socinian position
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