John Rowe (minister)
John Rowe (1626–1677) was an English clergyman,
Biography
He was born in
His 1653 book Tragi-comoedia took an incident in his parish of Witney as a judgement on those attending dramatic productions. The floor of an upper room of The White Hart Inn collapsed during a performance by travelling players of Mucedorus.[4]
In 1654 he was appointed lecturer to
After some moves, he established a church in Holborn, London, where he was assisted by Theophilus Gale.[8]
Thomas Rowe (1657–1705) was his son. He took over the church after Gale’s death, and moved it to Girdlers’ Hall, which opened in 1681 in Basinghall Street.[9][10] It had Isaac Watts in its congregation.[11] Henry Grove, friend of Watts, was Rowe’s nephew.[12]
References
- ^ Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses (1810), p. 156.
- ^ "Rowe, John (RW644J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ University of Oxford College Histories: From Their Foundations to the Twentieth Century (1998), pp. 144-5.
- ^ Alexandra Walsham, Providence in Early Modern England (1999), p. 7.
- ^ Daniel Neal, Joshua Toulmin, The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Nonconformists: From the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688 (1837), p. 209
- ^ Christopher Hill, The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution (1993), p. 101.
- ^ Gary Brady (19 September 2005). "The Great Ejection 1662: October 2007". Greatejection.blogspot.com. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 397.
- ^ Walter Wilson, History & Antiquities of the Dissenting Churches - Vol. 2 (reprinted 2001), p. 514.
- ^ "Girdlers' Hall, Basinghall Street". Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
- ^ "Issac Watts". Hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ Alan P. F. Sell, Testimony and Tradition: Studies in Reformed and Dissenting Thought (2005), p. 91.
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