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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

16 July 1686 A.D. John Pearson Dies—Post-Restoration Bishop of Chester, Scholar, & Author of Exposition of the Creed.


16 July 1686 A.D.  John Pearson Dies—Post-Restoration Bishop of Chester, Scholar, & Author; Author of Exposition of the Creed.
Pearson, John.  Exposition of the Creed.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.  Available at:  http://www.amazon.com/An-Exposition-Creed-John-Pearson/dp/1107624118/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1401981977&sr=8-2&keywords=john+pearson+creed.
A few wiki-notes.
 

John Pearson (28 February 1613 – 16 July 1686) was an English theologian and scholar.

Life

He was born at Great Snoring, Norfolk.
From Eton College he passed to Queens' College, Cambridge, and was elected a scholar of King's College, Cambridge in April 1632, and a fellow in 1634.[1] On taking orders in 1639 he was collated to the Salisbury prebend of Nether-Avon. In 1640 he was appointed chaplain to the lord-keeper Finch, by whom he was presented to the living of Thorington in Suffolk. In the Civil War he acted as chaplain to George Goring's forces in the west. In 1654 he was made weekly preacher at St Clement's, Eastcheap, in London.


With Peter Gunning he disputed against two Roman Catholics, John Spenser and John Lenthall, on the subject of schism, a one-sided account of which was printed in Paris by one of the Roman Catholic disputants, under the title Scisme Unmask't (1658).[2] Pearson also argued against the Puritan party, and was much interested in Brian Walton's polyglot Bible. In 1659 he published in London his celebrated Exposition of the Creed, dedicated to his parishioners of St Clement's, Eastcheap, to whom the substance of the work had been preached several years before.
Soon after the Restoration he was presented by Juxon, Bishop of London, to the rectory of St Christopher-le-Stocks; and in 1660 he was created doctor of divinity at Cambridge, appointed a royal chaplain, prebendary of Ely, archdeacon of Surrey, and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1661 he was appointed Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity; and on the first day of the ensuing year he was nominated one of the commissioners for the review of the liturgy in the conference held at the Savoy. There he won the esteem of his opponents and high praise from Richard Baxter. On 14 April 1662 he was made Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1667 he was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society.


Upon the death of John Wilkins in 1672, Pearson was appointed bishop of Chester. He died at Chester on 16 July 1686, and is buried in Chester Cathedral.

Works

In 1659 his Golden Remains of John Hales of Eton, with a memoir, was published. Also in 1659 was published his Exposition of the Creed in which the lectures which were given at the church of St Clement, Eastcheap, London, were included. (The notes are a rich mine of patristic learning.)[3] In 1672 he published at Cambridge Vindiciae epistolarum S. Ignatii, in 4to, in answer to Jean Daillé. His defence of the authenticity of the letters of Ignatius has been confirmed by J. B. Lightfoot and other scholars. In 1682 his Annales cyprianici were published at Oxford, with John Fell's edition of Cyprian's works. His last work, the Two Dissertations on the Succession and Times of the First Bishops of Rome, formed with the Annales Paulini the principal part of his Opera posthuma, edited by Henry Dodwell in 1688.


See the memoir in Biographia Britannica, and another by Edward Churton, prefixed to the edition of Pearson's Minor Theological Works (2 vols., Oxford, 1844). Churton also edited almost the whole of the theological writings. Pearson was one of the most erudite theologians of his age.[4]

References

1.       Jump up ^ "Pearson, John (PR632J2)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. 
2.       Jump up ^  "John Spenser". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. 
3.       Jump up ^ Drabble, Margaret, ed. (1985) The Oxford Companion to English Literature; 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; p. 749
4.       Jump up ^ Drabble, Margaret, ed. (1985) The Oxford Companion to English Literature; 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; p. 749
 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
Academic offices
Preceded by
Richard Sterne
Succeeded by
Joseph Beaumont
Preceded by
Henry Ferne
Succeeded by
Isaac Barrow
Preceded by
John Wilkins
Bishop of Chester
1673–1686
Succeeded by
Thomas Cartwright

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