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See also:AMBROSE, See also:ISAAC (1604-1663/4) , See also:English Puritan divine, was the son of See also:Richard Ambrose, See also:vicar of See also:Ormskirk, and was probably descended from the Ambroses of Lowick in See also:Furness, a well-known See also:Catholic See also:family; He entered Brazenose See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, in 1621, in his seventeenth See also:year. Having graduated B.A. in 1624 and been ordained, he received in 1627 the little cure of See also:Castleton in See also:Derbyshire. By the See also:influence of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell, See also:earl of See also:Bedford, he was appointed one of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's itinerant preachers in See also:Lancashire, and after living for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in Garstang, he was selected by the See also:Lady See also:Margaret Hoghton as vicar of See also:Preston. He associated himself with See also:Presbyterianism, and was on the celebrated See also:committee for the ejection of " scandalous and ignorant ministers and schoolmasters " during the See also:Commonwealth. So See also:long as Ambrose continued at Preston he was favoured with the warm friendship of the Hoghton family, their ancestral See also:woods and the See also:tower near See also:Blackburn affording him sequestered places for those devout meditations and " experiences " that give such a See also:charm to his See also:diary, portions of which are quoted in his Prima See also:Media and Ultima (165o, 1659). The immense auditory of his See also:sermon (Redeeming the Time) at the funeral of Lady Hoghton was long a living tradition all over the See also:county. On See also:account of the feeling engendered by the See also:civil See also:war Ambrose See also:left his See also:great See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of Preston in 1654, and became See also:minister of Garstang, whence, however, in 1662 he was ejected with the two thousand ministers who refused to conform. His after years were passed among old See also:friends and in quiet meditation at Preston. He died of See also:apoplexy about the 20th of See also:January 1663/4. As a religious writer Ambrose has a vividness and freshness of See also:imagination possessed by scarcely any of the Puritan Nonconformists. Many who have no love for Puritan See also:doctrine, nor sympathy with Puritan experience, have appreciated the pathos and beauty of his writings, and his Looking to Jesus long held its own in popular appreciation with the writings of See also:John See also:Bunyan.
End of Article: AMBROSE, ISAAC (1604-1663/4)
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