John Asty (1730) was an English dissenting clergyman.

Life

Asty was born in Norwich about 1672, the son of Robert Asty of

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

and grandson to the

ejected minister The Great Ejection followed the Act of Uniformity 1662 in England. Several thousand Puritan ministers were forced out of their positions in the Church of England, following Stuart Restoration, The Restoration of Charles II of England, Charles I ...

of Stratford, whose Christian name was John. Thomas Harmer, ''Ancient and Present State of Congregational Churches of Norfolk and Suffolk'', p. 45 In his funeral sermon by

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(1730) he was said to have made "thankful acknowledgments" for godly parents' and a religious education.' He spent several years during the earlier part of his ministry in the family of the Fleetwoods of

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, then outside London. In 1713 he was ordained as pastor to a congregation in Ropemaker's Alley, Moorfields, London, where he remained for the rest of his life. Asty was involved in controversy with Martin Tomkins, another minister in Stoke Newington, who was an early

Arian Arianism ( grc-x-koine, Ἀρειανισμός, ) is a Christological doctrine first attributed to Arius (), a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt. Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by God t ...

Socinian Socinianism () is a nontrinitarian belief system deemed heretical by the Catholic Church and other Christian traditions. Named after the Italian theologians Lelio Sozzini (Latin: Laelius Socinus) and Fausto Sozzini (Latin: Faustus Socinus), uncle ...

; Asty asserted the Biblical-Athanasian doctrine. Later Asty signed the declaration Trinity, as promulgated in the first article of the

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and in the answer to the fifth and sixth questions of the Assembly's catechism, agreed on at the Salters' Hall synod, 7 April 1719. An admirer of the practical writings of John Owen, Asty died on 20 January 1730, and was buried in

Bunhill Fields Bunhill Fields is a former burial ground in central London, in the London Borough of Islington, just north of the City of London. What remains is about in extent and the bulk of the site is a public garden maintained by the City of London Cor ...

Works

He published only a single sermon, on the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Fleetwood, preached at

on 23 June 1728 from Job ix. 12. He also prefixed a memoir to the collective folio volume of the ''Sermons and Tracts of Dr. John Owen'' (1721). Among the 1662 farewell sermons is one by John Asty, the ejected clergyman of Stratford, and Robert Asty of Norwich published a book called 'Treatise of Rejoicing in the Lord Jesus in all Cases and Conditions' (1683).

References

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