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THOMAS JACKSON (1579-1640)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 110 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS JACKSON (1579-1640)  , president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and dean of
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Peterborough, was born at Wittonle-
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Wear, Durham, and educated at Oxford . He became a probationer
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fellow of Corpus in 16o6, and was soon afterwards elected
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vice-president . In 1623 he was presented to the living of St Nicholas, Newcastle, and about 1625 to the living of Winston, Durham . Five years later he was appointed president of Corpus, and in 1632 the king presented him to the living of
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Witney, Oxfordshire . He was made a prebendary of Winchester in 1635, and was dean of Peterborough in 1635–1639 . Although Originally a Calvinist, he became in later
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life an Arminian . Creed, the first
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complete edition being entitled The
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Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D . (
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London, 1673) . The commentaries were, however, originally published in 1613-1657, as twelve books with different titles, the first being The Eternal Truth of Scriptures (London, 1613) .

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