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PEARSON, JOHN (1612-1686)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 29 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEARSON, See also:JOHN (1612-1686) , See also:English divine and See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Great Snoring, See also:Norfolk, on the 28th of See also:February 1612. From See also:Eton he passed to See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and was elected a scholar of See also:King's in See also:April 1632, and a See also:fellow in 1634. On taking orders in 1639 he was collated to the See also:Salisbury prebend of Nether-See also:Avon. In 164o he was appointed See also:chaplain to the See also:lord-keeper See also:Finch, by whom he was presented to the living of Thorington in See also:Suffolk. In the See also:Civil See also:War he acted as chaplain to See also:George See also:Goring's forces in the See also:west. In 1654 he was made weekly preacher at St See also:Clement's, Eastcheap, in See also:London. With See also:Peter See also:Gunning he disputed against two See also:Roman Catholics on the subject of See also:schism, a one-sided See also:account of which was printed in See also:Paris by one of the Roman See also:Catholic disputants, under the See also:title Scisme Unmask't (1658). Pearson also argued against the Puritan party, and was much interested in See also:Brian See also:Walton's polyglot See also: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 See also:work had been preached several years before. In the same See also:year hepublished the See also:Golden Remains of the ever-memorable Mr John See also:Hales of Eton, with an interesting memoir. Soon after the Restoration he was presented by See also:Juxon, See also:bishop of London, to the rectory of St See also:Christopher-le-See also:Stocks; and in 166o he was created See also:doctor of divinity at Cambridge, appointed a royal chaplain, See also:prebendary of See also:Ely, See also:archdeacon of See also:Surrey, and See also:master of Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1661 he was appointed See also:Lady See also:Margaret See also:professor of divinity; and on the first See also:day of the ensuing year he was nominated one of the commissioners for the See also:review of the See also:liturgy in the See also:conference held at the See also:Savoy.

There he won the esteem of his opponents and high praise from See also:

Richard See also:Baxter. On the 14th of April 1662 he was made master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1667 he was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1672 he published at Cambridge Vindiciae epistolarum S. Ignatii, in 4to, in See also:answer to See also:Jean Daille. His See also:defence of the authenticity of the letters of See also:Ignatius has been confirmed by J. B. See also:Lightfoot and other See also:recent scholars. Upon the See also:death of John See also:Wilkins in 1672, Pearson was appointed to the bishopric of See also:Chester. In 1682 his Annales cyprianici were published at See also:Oxford, with John See also:Fell's edition of that See also:father's See also:works. He died at Chester on the 16th of See also:July 1686. His last work, the Two See also:Dissertations on the See also:Succession and Times of the First Bishops of See also:Rome, formed with the Annales Paulini the See also:principal See also:part of his See also:Opera See also:post/See also:mina, edited by See also:Henry See also:Dodwell in 1688.

See the memoir in Biographia Britannica, and another by See also:

Edward Churton, prefixed to the edition of Pearson's See also:Minor Theological Works (2 vols., Oxford, 1844). Churton also edited almost the whole of the theological writings.

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