Nathaniel Hardy
Nathaniel Hardy (1618–1670) was an English churchman, Dean of Rochester from 1660.
Life
He was son of Anthony Hardy of London, born in the
In 1643 he was appointed preacher to the church of
On 2 August 1660 he was created D.D. of Hart Hall, Oxford; on 10 August was made rector of St. Dionis, Backchurch, where he had long been preacher; and on 10 December 1660 became dean of Rochester. In March 1661 he petitioned for the next vacant prebend at Westminster, but does not seem to have obtained it. On 6 April 1661 the king presented him to the vicarage of
Works
His published sermons and lectures are:
- 'Arraignement of Licentious Libertie,' 1646, 1647, 1657.
- 'Justice Triumphing, 1646, 1647, 1648, 1656.
- 'Faith's Victory' over Nature,' 1648, 1658.
- 'A Divine Prospective,' 1649, 1654, 1660.
- 'The Safest Convoy,' 1649, 1653.
- 'Two Mites, or a Grateful Acknowledgement of God's singular Goodness (on recovery from sickness): a, "Mercy in her Beauty," 1653; b, "Thankfulness in Grain," ' 1653, 1654.
- 'Divinity in Mortality,' 1653, 1659.
- 'Love and Fear,' 1653, 1658. 9. 'Death's Alarm,' 1654.
- 'Epitaph of a Godly Man,' 1655.
- 'Safety in the Midst of Danger,' 1656.
- 'Wisdom's Character,' 1656.
- 'Wisdom's Counterfeit,' 1656.
- 'The first General Epistle of St. John the Apostle, unfolded and applied', pt. i. twenty-two lectures, 1656; pt. ii. thirty-seven lectures, 1659; republished in Nichol's 'Series of Commentaries,' Edinburgh, 1865.
- 'The Olive Branch,' 1658.
- 'The Pious Votary,' 1658, 1659.
- 'A Sad Prognostic of Approaching Judgment,' 1658, 1660.
- 'Man's Last Journey to his Long Home,' 1659.
- 'The Pilgrim's Wish,' 1659, 1666.
- 'Carduus Benedictus,' 1659.
- 'A Looking Glasse of Human Frailtie,' 1659.
- 'The Hierarchy Exalted,' 1660, 1661.
- 'The Choicest Fruit of Peace,' 1660.
- 'The Apostolical Liturgie Revised,' 1661.
- 'A Loud Call to Great Mourning,' 1662.
- 'Lamentation, Mourning, and Woe' (on the Great Fire of London), 1666.
- 'The Royal CommonWealth's Man,' 1668.
'Several Sermons, preached upon solemn Occasions,' were collected together, 1658. Another series appeared in 1666. A funeral sermon preached at Cranford on Thomas Fuller was not apparently printed. Hardy frequently complained of the publication of pirated and unauthorised versions of his sermons and prayers.
External links
- "Hardy, Nathaniel (HRDY639N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Hardy, Nathaniel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.