Richard Fairclough (1621–1682) was an

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nonconformist

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Life

Fairclough was the eldest son of

Samuel Fairclough Samuel Fairclough (1594–1677) was an English nonconformist divine. Early life Fairclough was born 29 April 1594 at Haverhill, Suffolk, the youngest of the four sons of Lawrence Fairclough, vicar of Haverhill, by his wife Mary, daughter of John C ...

(1594–1677). He graduated M.A. as a member of

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. While a resident in

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, he was licensed in 1672 to be a general presbyterian teacher. He died in London 4 July 1682 and was buried in

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. According to John Howe, Fairclough was "a man of a clear, distinct understanding, of a very quick, discerning, and penetrating judgment, that would on a sudden … strike through knotty difficulties into the inward center of truth with such a felicity that things seem'd to offer themselves to him which are wont to cost others a troublesome search." He was author of "The nature, possibility, and duty of a true believer attaining to a certain knowledge of his effectual vocation, eternal election, and final perseverance to glory", a sermon printed in

Nathaniel Vincent Nathaniel Vincent (?–1697) was an English Nonconformist (Protestantism), nonconformist minister, ejected in 1662 and several times imprisoned. Life He was probably born in Cornwall about 1639, son of John Vincent (1591–1646), who was nominate ...

's ''The Morning-Exercise against Popery'', 1675, and in vol. vi. of

Samuel Annesley Samuel Annesley (c. 1620 – 1696) was a prominent Puritan and nonconformist pastor, best known for the sermons he collected as the series of ''Morning Exercises''. Life He was born in Haseley, in Warwickshire in 1620, and christened on the 26th ...

's ''The Morning Exercises'', 1844, &c. Edmund Calamy also mentions 'An Abridgment of some of his latter Sermons to his beloved people at Mells'.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fairclough, Richard 1621 births 1682 deaths 17th-century English people Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Anglican clergy from London