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See also:HERVEY, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1714–1758) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Hardingstone, near See also:Northampton, on the 26th of See also:February 1714, and was educated at the See also:grammar school of Northampton, and at See also:Lincoln 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. Here he came under the See also:influence of See also:John See also:Wesley and the Oxford methodists; ultimately, however, while retaining his regard for the men and his sympathy with their religious aims, he adopted a thoroughly Calvinistic creed, and resolved to remain in the See also:Anglican 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. Having taken orders in 1737, he held several curacies, and in 1752 succeeded his See also:father in the See also:family livings of See also:Weston Favell and Collingtree. He was never robust, but was a See also:good See also:parish See also:priest and a zealous writer. His See also:style is often bombastic, but he displays a rare appreciation of natural beauty, and his See also:simple piety made him many See also:friends. His earliest See also:work, Meditations and Contemplations, said to have been modelled on See also:Robert See also:Boyle's Occasional Reflexions on various Subjects, within fourteen years passed through as many See also:editions. Theron and Aspasio, or a See also:series of Letters upon the most important and interesting Subjects, which appeared in 1755, and was equally well received, called forth some adverse See also:criticism even from Calvinists, on See also:account of tendencies which were considered to See also:lead to antinomianism, and was strongly objected to by Wesley in his Preservative against unsettled Notions in See also:Religion. Besides carrying into See also:England the theological disputes to which the Marrow of See also:Modern Divinity had given rise in See also:Scotland, it also led to what is known as the Sandemanian controversy as to the nature of saving faith. Hervey died on the 25th of See also:December 1758.
A " new and See also:complete " edition of his See also:Works, with a memoir, appeared in 1797. See also Collection of the Letters of James Hervey, to which is prefixed an account of his See also:Life and See also:Death, by Dr See also:Birch
(1760).
End of Article: HERVEY, JAMES (1714–1758)
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