Henry Jeanes (1611–1662) was an English clergyman and puritan controversialist.
Life
He was son of Christopher Jeanes of
Kingston, Somerset, born at
Allansay. He became in 1626 a commoner of
New Inn Hall, Oxford, where, according to
Anthony Wood, he was known for disputation. He graduated B.A. 3 June 1630, and proceeded M.A. 14 May 1633; he was incorporated at Cambridge in 1632, and later moved to
Hart Hall, Oxford.
On 5 August 1635 he was presented by Sir John Windham to the rectory of
Beer Crocombe and
Capland in Somerset, and he obtained soon afterwards the vicarage of Kingston. During the early part of the
First English Civil War
The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. They include the Bishops' Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars, the Second English Civil War, the Ang ...
he and his family took refuge at
Chichester; later he received the rectory of
Chedzoy
Chedzoy (alternatively Chedzey) is a civil parish village east of Bridgwater in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset.
History
The village is at the western end of King's Sedgemoor and lies on an 'island' of Burtle marine sands, close to King's S ...
, near
Bridgwater
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. Here he instructed private pupils, among them being
George Bull. Jeanes died at
Wells
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in August 1662, and was buried in the cathedral.
Works
Jeanes wrote:
* 'Treatise concerning a Christian's Careful Abstinence from all Appearance of Evil . . .' Oxford, 1640; another edition 1660.
* 'The Worke of Heaven upon Earthe . . .' an expanded sermon, London, 1649.
* 'The Want of Church Government no warrant for a total omission of the Lord's Supper,' London, 1650, dedicated to Colonel
John Pyne
John Pyne (died 1679) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War, but fell out with Oliver Cromwell during the Interregnum. ...
; another edition, with a reply to Francis Fulwood, Oxford, 1653.
* 'A Vindication of Dr. Twisse from the Exceptions of Mr. John Goodwin in his Redemption Redeemed,' Oxford, 1653. Appended to
William Twisse's 'Riches of God's Love . . . consistent with His Absolute Hatred ... of the Vessels of Wrath.'
*'A Mixture of Scholasticall Divinity with Practicall,' Oxford, 1656, in several parts. This work
Henry Hammond
Henry Hammond (18 August 1605 – 25 April 1660) was an English churchman, who supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.
Early life
He was born at Chertsey in Surrey on 18 August 1605, the youngest son of John Hammond (c. 155 ...
criticised in his 'Ἐκτενέστερον,' to which Jeanes replied in 1657, while Hammond replied again in 1657, and was supported by
William Creed in his 'Refuter Refuted,' 1659. Jeanes replied to Hammond a second time in 1660, and to Creed in 1661.
* 'Treatise concerning the Indifferency of Human Actions,' Oxford, 1659.
* 'A Second Part of the Mixture of Scholastical Divinity,' Oxford, 1660, printed with the second reply to Hammond and 'Letters on Original Sin.'
* 'Of Original Righteousness, and its Contrary Concupiscence,' Oxford, 1660, directed against
Jeremy Taylor.
* 'Letters between Jeanes and Jeremy Taylor on the subject of Original Sin,' Oxford, 1660.
Jeanes has been wrongly supposed to have been the author of the reply to Milton's ''
Eikonoklastes'' (1651), entitled ''The Image Unbroken'', by
Joseph Jane.
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1611 births
1662 deaths
17th-century English Anglican priests
Alumni of New Inn Hall, Oxford