Hezekiah Holland (''c.'' 1617 – after 1660) was an

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man, tending towards

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. He used the

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Anglo-Hibernus. Probably born in

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, in 1638 Holland graduated

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Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, as Ezekias Holland, and he migrated to England in about 1644. In March 1645, during the

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, Robert Smith,

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Sutton Valence Sutton Valence (in the past also called Sudtone, Town Sutton and Sutton Hastings, see below) is a village about five miles (8 km) SE of Maidstone, Kent, England on the A274 road going south to Headcorn and Tenterden. It is on the Greensand ...

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, was deprived of his

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, and Holland was appointed by

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to succeed him as minister of the parish. In July 1649, Holland wrote that he had arrived in England as "a stranger, (a kind of a banished man) out of Ireland... five years ago I came out of that Kingdom into this".Stephen Wright, ''Holland, Hezekiah (fl. 1638–1660), clergyman'', in ''

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(Oxford University Press, 2007)Bryan W. Ball, ''A great expectation: eschatological thought in English Protestantism to 1660'', p. 32 Before long, the

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were gathering a large number of adherents in Kent, and Holland found that he needed to take part in religious controversy with George Hammon, preacher of

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, one of the Baptist leaders. In his work ''An exposition or, A short, but full, plaine, and perfect epitome of the most choice commentaries upon the

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of Saint John'', published in 1650, Holland reckoned that the end of the World and the

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were 216 years away. Despite its title, this work generally follows the commentary of the German theologian

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(1548–1622), whose work on the Revelation of Saint John the Divine had been translated into English by Elias Arnold, but Holland relied also on the work of

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, and the

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reformer

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. George Hammon replied to Holland in ''Truth and Innocency, Prevailing against Error and Insolency'' (1660), a work which sought to defend the thnetopsychist view of humanity. In ''Adam's Condition in Paradise Discovered'' (1656), Holland addressed his opponent Hammon, remarking "you have gotten into great repute with those who know not how to contradict you". Hammon, in a work dated 1660, refers to Holland as being still at Sutton Valence, but this was the year of the Restoration of the monarchy, after which no further traces of Holland have been found. His ultimate fate is unknown.

Publications

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