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EDWARD FOWLER (1632-1714)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 761 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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, afterwards migrating to Trinity College, See also:Cambridge . 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 More, the Cambridge Platonist, resigning in his favour . In 1681 he became See also:vicar of St See also:Giles, Cripplegate, but after four years was suspended for Whiggism . 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 . 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 . 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) . 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 . 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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