Daniel Brevint
Daniel Brevint or Brevin (baptised 11 May 1616 – 5 May 1695) was Dean of Lincoln from 1682 to 1695.
Life
Brevint was from the parish of
When King Charles II was restored in 1660, he returned to England, becoming prebendary of Durham Cathedral and rector of Brancepath in December 1660. He was appointed Dean of Lincoln on 7 January 1682. He died in the deanery in 1695 and was buried in the cathedral.[1]
Works
Brevint's works included anti-Catholic writings and a famous devotional work on the eucharist: Missale Romanum (1672), The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice (1673), Saul and Samuel at Endor (1674) Fifty years after Brevint's death, an abridgement of "The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice" (1673) prepared by John Wesley became Methodism's core "authoritative doctrine on the Sacrament" and remains so today.[2]
References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 February 2008.
- ^ The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, The Enchiridion, D.Brevint: The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice, accessed 9 January 2011.