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to the See of Worcester . * About 1647 , he became rector of Blissland , near to Bodmin , in Cornwall . But being eagerly bent against that notorious Inripnenrient . John Goodwin , + left that BIT
" ^^^ ^ B ^ ' ^^ ^~*^ ^^^ h ^ v — ^ w ^ p j rectory some years after , and obtained the ministry of a church in Gracious Street , in London , purposely that he might be in a better capacity to oppose Mm and his doctrine . In 1654 , he proceeded D . D ., % and
, i _ i .- — — — - —— / * iC To his -great impoverishment . He became at length verus librorum helluo ; for having first by indefatigable studies digested his excellent library into his mind , he was after forced again to devour
all his books with his teeth ; turning them , by a miraculous faith and patience , into bread for himself and his children . " He died in 1650 , aged 72 . * A then . O $ on . II . 69 , 70 .
-f A zealous Armiman , and well known in the political history of his time as a determined Republican . He had the honour to be joined with Milton among the exceptions in < c the Act of Indemnity , " 1660 ; and also to have his " book entitled the Obstructers of Justice , written in defence of Charles ' s execution , " publicly burnt by the hand of the common haugman , " according to Royal
proclamation , in company with " Johannis Miltoni Angli pro Populo Anglicano Defensio , " and the Iconoclastes . See Dr . Z . Grey ' s € i Attempt towards the Character of the Hoyal Martyr , " 1738 , pp . 68 , 70 .
John Goodwin was born in 1593 ., and educated at Cambridge . In 1633 , he became vicar of the Church in Coleman Street , whence he was ejected " in 1645 , by the Committee for plundered Ministers , " for refusing to administer baptism and the Lord ' s supper promiscuously to all the parish . He afterwards hajl a private meeting in Coleman Street . He died
m 1665 . Calamy , with whom an Independent and an Arminian were no peculiar favourites , admits , ( Account , p . 53 , ) that John Goodwin " had a clear head , a fluent tongue , a penetrating spirit , and a marvellous faculty in descanting on Scripture ; and , with all his faults , must be owned to have been a considerable man . " See also
Noncon . Mem . ed . 2 , I . 196—198 , Toplady has bestowed upon John Goodwin an abundant share of that scurrility poured out on nearly all the Arminians who came in his way , and with which he has disgraced the pages of his " Historic Proofs of the Calvinism of the Church of England . " See pp . xl . —xlvii . 1 Calamy says , fCont . 260 , ) " l * e was
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upon the Restoration , he left London and became rector of Kenton , near Exeter which he kept till the Act of Conformity was published in 1662 , at which time , giving it up , he retired to his house at Co / ton , where he spent the short remainder of his days in a retired condition . His works are these
" Collirium : or an Ointment to open the Eyes of the poor Cavaliers ;" published after the Cavaliers had been defeated in the West . " Vindication of the Doctrine commonly received in Churches , concernin g God ' s Intentions of special Grace ana Favour to his Elect in the Death of Christ . " Lond . 1653 , fol .
" Of Christ ' s Prerogative , Power , Prescience , Providence , &c ., from the Attempts lately made against them by Mr . John . Goodwin , in his Book entitled Redemption redeemed" * " Digressions concerning the Impossibility of Faith's being an Instrument of Justification , " &c . These two last things are printed with the Vindication .
" Sancti Sanciti : or the common Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints ; as who are kept by the Power of God , through Faith , unto Salvation ; vindicated from the Attempts lately made against it by John Goodwin , in his book entitled Redemption redeemed . " Lond . fol . 1654 . This book
is animadverted upon , by the said John Goodwin , in his " Triumviri , or the Genius , Spirit and Deportment of Three Men , Mr . Richard Resbury , Mr . John Pawson and Mr . George Kendal , in th ^ ir late Writings ag ainst the Free Grace of God , in the Redemption of the World . " " A Fescu for a Horn-book : or an
Moderator of the first General Assembly of the Ministers of Devon , that met at Exon , Oct . 18 , 1655 . " * Baxter also engaged in this controversy , and wrote " An Answer to Dr . Kendal , " whom he describes as " a little , quick-spirited man , of great ostentation ,
and a considerable orator and scholar . He was driven on , " says he , " further by others than his own inclination would have led him . He thought to get an advantage for his reputation , by a triumph over John Goodwin and me ; for those that . set him on work , would needs h # ve him conjoin us both together , to intimate that I was au Aruiiuiap , " Eeliq . Baxt . p > 110 .
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580 Sylva Biographica .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 580, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/12/
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