John Everard (preacher)
John Everard (1584?–1641) was an English preacher and author. He was also a
alchemist.[1]
He is known for his translations of mystical and hermetic literature.
Life
He graduated B.A, at
He was later chaplain to
Grindletonian, and was praised by John Webster. He was brought before the Court of High Commission in 1636, when he was vicar of Fairstead, Essex, and charged with various heresies: Familism, Antinomianism, Anabaptism. He was fined heavily. On a second occasion, in 1640, he recanted his spiritualist beliefs.[4][5][6][7][8]
His sermons, published posthumously, are between
Ranter.[10]
Translations
- Theologia Germanica - it is now disputed that Everard was responsible for the English translation.[11]
- Of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil by Sebastian Franck[12]
- De Docta Ignorantia by Nicholas of Cusa, made in the 1620s, published 1650[13]
- Johann Tauler
- Pimander; the second in 1657 added the Asclepius.[8]
Notes
- ^ Allison Coudert, Henry More, Kabbalah, and Quakers, p. 47 in Richard W. F. Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, Perez Zagorin (editors), Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England, 1640-1700 (1991).
- ^ Alan Stewart, The Cradle King: A Life of James VI & I (2003), p. 308.
- ^ "Venice: April 1621, 23-30 | British History Online".
- ^ Bruce White and Walter Woodward, “A Most Exquisite Fellow” — William White and an Atlantic World Perspective on the Seventeenth-Century Chymical Furnace
- ^ Christopher Hill, Milton and the English Revolution (1979), p. 328.
- ^ Christopher Hill, The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution (1993), p. 182.
- ^ Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (1971), p. 185.
- ^ a b Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers (2000), article on Petyt, pp. 290-1.
- ^ Christopher Hill, A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church (19880, p. 34.
- ^ Christopher Hill, A Nation of Change and Novelty (1993), p. 217.
- ^ Nigel Smith, Elegy for a Grindletonian: Poetry and Heresy in Northern England, 1615-1640, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies - Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2003, pp. 335-351.
- ^ "The Life of George Fox". Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2009.
- ^ Nicholas McDowell, The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660 (2003), p. 95.
- ^ "Everard's Commentary on Emerald Tablet".
Further reading
- Rufus M. Jones (1914), Early English Interpreters of Spiritual Religion: John Everard, Giles Randall and Others
- T. W. Hayes, John Everard and the Familist tradition, in Margaret C. Jacob, James Jacob, James (ed.), The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism (1984), 60-9.
External links
- s:Everard, John (1575?-1650?) (DNB00)
- "Everard, John (EVRT600J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- John Everard Resource Page
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Everard, John". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz. col. 1576. ISBN 3-88309-013-1.
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