Christopher Ness
Christopher Ness (1621–1705) was an English
Life
Born on 26 December 1621 at North Cave, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, he was son of Thomas Ness, a husbandman. He was at school there under John Seaman, and entered St John's College, Cambridge, on 17 May 1638. He graduated B.A. in 1641/2, and M.A.[1][2][3]
When 23 years Ness returned to Yorkshire, where he became an
After the
Ness died on 26 December 1705, aged exactly 84 years, and was buried at Bunhill Fields burial ground.[1]
Works
Ness's major works were:[1]
- A History and Mystery of the Old and New Testaments, 1696.
- A Protestant Antidote against the Poison of Popery.
- The Crown and Glory of a Christian.
- A Christian's Walk and Work on Earth until he attain to Heaven, 2nd edit. 1678–9.
- A Church History from Adam, and a Scripture Prophecy to the End of the World.
- An Antidote against Arminianism, 1700, a short work with a long life that became popular with Calvinists, a concise guide to doctrines such as election and predestination, as taught by John Owen, Augustus Toplady and others. It reached its sixth edition in 1838, being revised by John A. Jones, who was minister at Mitchell Street, St. Luke's, London.[1][4] A new edition appeared in 1847 at London and Cambridge.[1]
John Dunton wrote that Ness wrote for him a life of Pope Innocent XI, of which the whole printing sold in two weeks.[1] Entitled The Devil's Patriarck (1683), it had an introductory epistle by Titus Oates.[5]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 40. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19904. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Nesse, Christopher (NS638C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ The Sessional Papers of the House of Lords: Session 1837-8-38, Vol. XLVI. 1838. p. 39.
- ISBN 978-0-7923-6848-9.
External links
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Ness, Christopher". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 40. London: Smith, Elder & Co.