Drue Cressener

Drue Cressener

Drue Cressener (1642?-1718) was an English clergyman and theological writer, known as an interpreter of the Apocalypse.

Contents

Life

He was a native of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. He was educated at Christ's College Cambridge where he matriculated as a sizar in 1658 aged 16; and at Pembroke College, Cambridge to which he migrated in 1661. He graduated B.A. 1661, M.A. 1685, B.D. 1703, D.D. 1708. He was elected a fellow of Pembroke on 29 August 1662.[1]

He became treasurer of Framlingham, Suffolk, and vicar of Wearisly in 1677, and junior proctor of the university of Cambridge in 1678. On 14 January 1678 he was presented to the vicarage of Soham, Cambridgeshire, and on 12 December 1700 he was collated to a prebend in Ely Cathedral. He died at Soham on 20 February 1718.

Works

His works are:

  • 'The Judgements of God upon the Roman Catholick Church; in a prospect of several approaching revolutions, in explication of the Trumpets and Vials in the Apocalypse, upon principles generally acknowledged by Protestant interpreters,' London, 1689.
  • 'A Demonstration of the first Principles of Protestant applications of the Apocalypse. Together with the consent of the Ancients concerning the fourth beast of the 7th of Daniel, and the beast in the Revelations,' London, 1690.

Notes

  1. ^ Drue Cressener in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Зверь, вышедший из моря — Стиль этой статьи неэнциклопедичен или нарушает нормы русского языка. Статью следует исправить согласно стилистическим правилам Википедии. Зверь, вышедший из моря  библейский апокалиптический образ, зверь, вышедший из моря и имевший семь… …   Википедия

  • Preterism — is a variant of Christian eschatology which holds that some or all of the biblical prophecies concerning the Last Days or End Times refer to events which actually happened in the first century after Christ s birth. The term preterism comes from… …   Wikipedia

  • Historicism (Christian eschatology) — In Christian eschatology, Historicism is a school of interpretation which treats the eschatological prophecies of Daniel and Revelation as finding literal earthly fulfillment through the history of the church age and especially in relation to the …   Wikipedia

  • Daniel 7 — Daniel s vision of the four beasts Woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger Daniel 7 is the seventh chapter of the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible. It is the last chapter written in Aramaic before it continues again in the Hebraic Masoretic text of …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”