Benjamin whichcote biography

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Among those whom he befriended about the time of this crisis was Samuel Hartlib [q. His compliance with the Act of Uniformity restored him to court favour, and in November he was appointed to the cure of St. Anne's, Blackfriars. In his friend Dr. John Wilkins [q. Lawrence Jewry, to which, by his interest, Whichcote was now appointed. The church, however, had to be rebuilt, and during the work, which occupied some seven years, he preached regularly before the corporation at Guildhall Chapel.

In a letter written to Sancroft on 24 Dec. In , along with Tillotson and Stillingfleet, he co-operated with certain nonconformists in furthering Thomas Gouge's efforts to extend education in Wales.

In Whichcote was at Cambridge on a visit to Cudworth at Christ's College, when he took cold and eventually died. He was interred in St. Lawrence Church, where his funeral sermon was preached by Tillotson on 24 May.

The association between Smith the compiler and John Smith the Platonist is certainly suggestive, but it is by no means compelling on current evidence.

A source which is much less frequently considered is a peculiar collection of sermons and aphorisms printed as Theophoroumena dogmata: Or, Some Select Notions of that Learned and Reverend Divine of the Church of England, Benj. Whitchcot, D. Salter in took this comment by Shaftesbury to refer to an anonymous Compendium of Devotion of ; but this text is not attributed by its editor to any particular author, even though its lengthy contents include an abstract of a single sermon preached by Whichcote on Psalm associated by the editor with St Lawrence Jewry.

Fortunately, there is one sermon from the period which can be reconstructed with some confidence, albeit not in its entirety. In his first letter written in response to Tuckney, Whichcote provided a summary of the offending sermon, drawn from his own preparatory sermon notes.

Some divines, argued Whichcote, placed such an emphasis upon justification that they neglected sanctification. In particular, Goodwin sought to explicate the role of human beings in their own salvation. Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Virtual International Authority File. Library of Congress authority ID. Libraries Australia ID.

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