- Henry Jacob
Reverend Henry Jacob (1563-1624) was one of many
English Dissenters . He was a founder of the Puritan religious sect, the Jacobites.Life
Jacob matriculated from
St. Mary's Hall, Oxford in 1581; B. A. (1583) and M. A. (1586). With fellowAnglican clergymenJohn Lothropp , he formed a non-separatist independent faction of former Church of England members.Contemporary scholars refer to them as:
Independent (religion) ,Brownist , semi-Separatist, orPuritans . They wereCalvinist in theological practise.Bibliography
Primary sources
*Ames, William, 1576-1633. The relation of church and state [n.d.] , in The Reformation of the Church, Murray, I. H. (ed.) [1965]
* ______. De Conscientia et ejus vel casibus (1630)
* ______. Conscience with the power and cases thereof. (Tr. out of Latine) (1639) [STC 552]*Bilson, Thomas, 1546-7?-1616. The effect of certaine sermons, touching the full redemption of mankind (1599) [STC 3064]
* ______. Perpetual government of Christes Church* Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618. A treatise of divine worship, tending to prove that the ceremonies imposed vpon the ministers of the Gospell in England, in the present controversie, are in their vse vnlawfull (1604) [STC 3528]
* ______. A Protestation of the King's Supremacie (1605) [STC 3525]
* Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597. Answer to the two first and principall treatises of a certain faction libell, put foorth latelie, without name of author or printer, and without approbation by authoritie, ...
* Dickinson, Edmund, 1624-1707. Delphi phoenicizantes, sive Tractatus, in quo Graecos, quicquid apud Delphos celebre erat: ... (1655) [EEb, 1641-1700 ; 528:19]
* Downame, George, d. 1634. Defence of the sermon preached at the consecration of the L. Bishop of Bath and Welles [1613]
* Featley, Daniel. The Dippers Dipt (1645)
* [Fenner, Dudley, 1558?-1587] A counter-poyson, modestly written for the time, to make aunswere to the obiections and reproaches, wherein the aunswere to the Abstract, would disgrace the holy discipline of Christ [1584] [EEb, 1475-1460; 224:8] [STC (2nd ed.) 10770] [ESTCS101936]
* Howard, Luke., A Looking-Glass for Baptists (1672)
* Jacob, Henry, 1563-1624.
* ______. A treatise of the sufferings and victory of Christ, in then work of our redemption declaring by the Scriptures these two quetions, ... (1598) [EEb, 1475-1640; 936:16] [STC 14340] [ESCTS107530]
* ______. A Defence of the Chvrches and Ministry of Englande. Written in two treatises, against the reasons and obiections of Maister Francis Iohnson. and others of the separation commonly called Brownists, ... (1599) [EEb, 1475-1640; 251:2] [STC 14335] [ESTCS107526]
* ______. A short treatise concerning the trvenes of a pastorall calling in pastors made by prelates ... (1599)
* ______. A defence of a treatise touching the sufferings and victorie of Christ in the worke of our redemption. ... (1600) [EEb, 1475-1640; 936:15] [STC (2nd ed.)14333] [ESTCS103093]
* ______. [Another. ed.] (1600) [STC 14334]
* ______. Reasons taken ovt of Gods Word and the best humane Testimonies proving a necessitie of reforming ovr churches in England ... (1603) [EEb, 1475-1640; 993:9] [STC 14338] [ESTCS120955]
* ______. [Another ed.] (1909)
* ______. Principles and Foundations of the Christian Religion
* ______. A Third Humble Supplication of many faithful subjects in England falsely called Puritans directed to the King's Majesty (1605)
* ______. A Christian and Modest Offer of a Most Indifferent Conference or dispvtation, abovt the maine and principall coutroversies betwixt the prelate, and the late silenced and deprived ministers in England (1606) [EEb, 1475-1640; 1145:3] [STC 14329] [ESTCS120767]
* ______. .To the High and mightie Prince, Iames by the grace of God, King of great Britannie, France, and Irelande ... : An Humble Supplication for Toleration and Libertie to Enjoy and Observe the Ordinances of Christ Jesus in th' administration of His Churches in Lieu of Human Constitutions (1609)
* ______. [Another ed.] (1975)
* ______. An humble Supplication for Toleration (1609)
* ______. Divine Beginnings and Institutions of Christ true Visible ... Church, (1610)
* ______. [The divine beginning of Christs church] (1610) [EEb, 1475-1640; 993:7] [STC 14336] [ESTCS101363]
* ______. A plaine and cleere Exposition of the Second Commandement (1610) [STC 14337]
* ______. A declaration and plainer opening of certaine pointes in the divine beginning of Christes true Church (1611) [STC 14331]
* ______. A declaration and plainer opening of certaine points, with a sound confirmation of some other, contained in a teatise intituled, The divine beginning and institution of Christes true visible and ministeriall church (1612) [EEb, 1475-1640; 1145:4, 1549:4] [STC 14332] [ESTCS102836]
* ______. An Attestation of many Learned godly, and famous Divines, lightes of religion, and pillars of the Gospell, iustifying this doctrine, ... (1613) [EEb, 1475-1640; 993:5] [STC 14328] [ESTCS117858]
* ______. An Attestation of many divines that the Church-government ought to bee alwayes with the peoples free consent (1613)
* ______. [Another ed.] (1975)
* ______. Anno Domini 1616. A Confession and Protestation of the Faith of certaine Christians in England [1616] [EEb, 1475-1640; 993:6] [STC 14330] [ESCTS120216]
* ______. Kneeling in the act of eating and drinking at the Lords table is a sinne. Proved by 8 arguments printed in the yeare. 1641. (1641) [Wing (2nd ed.) J96] [Thomason Tracts; 163:E.1102(5)] [ESTCR208356]
* Jessey, Henry, 1603-1663. The Scripture-almanacke, or a calculation according to the English account, and the Word of God. [1646] [EEb, 1641-1700; 2380:2] [Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) A1833A] [ESTCR223971]
* ______. [Another ed.] 1650. The scripture-kalendar, used by the prophets and apostles, and by our Lord Jesus Christ [1650] [EEb, 1641-1700; 2322:4] [Wing A1835A] [ECTSR229487]
* ______. A Storehouse of Provision (1650)
* ______. Miscellanea sacra, or, Diverse necessary truths, now as seasonably published, as they were plainly and compendeously proved by Henry Jessey, late minister of the Gospel in London (1665) [EEb, 1641-1700; 1950:6] [Wing (2nd ed.) J695] [ESTCR216570]
* ______. A Looking-glass for children being a narrative of God's gracious dealings with some little children, recollectedby Henry Jessey in his life-time [4th ed.; 1673] [EEB, 1641-1700; 2292:24] [Wing P30A] [ESTCR42778]
* ______. [Another ed.] (1709) [ESTCW38859]
* ______. "Letters to Henry Jacie", in Collections (Mass. Historical Society), 3rd ser., 1; 4th ser., 6
* Johnson, Francis, 1562-1618. An answer to Maister H. Iacob his defence of the churches and ministry of England. By Francis Johnson an exile of Iesus Christ (1600) [EEb, 1475-1640; 994:11] [STC 14658] [ESTCS121679]
* Killcop, Thomas, A short Treatise of Baptisme (1642)
* Ormerod, Oliver, 1580?-1626. The Picture of a Puritane ; or a relation of the opinions a. practises of the Anabaptists in Germanie a. of the puritanes in England. Whereunto is annexed Puritano-papismus (1605) [STC 18851]
* ______. [Anr. ed.] Newly corrected and enlarged (1605) [STC 18852]
* Staresmore, Sabine (fl. 1616-1647). Unlawfullnes of Reading in Prayer (1619)
econdary sources
* Brachlow, S., The Communion of Saints: Radical Puritan and Separatists Ecclesiology 1570-1625 (1988)
* ______. "The Elizabethan Roots of Henry Jacob's Churchmanship", Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 36 (1985)
* Dodd, J. A., "The Eschatology of Praise-God Barebone", Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, 4 (1909-10)
* Hylson-Smith, K., The Churches in England from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II, Vol. 1, 1558-1688 (1996)
* Nuttall, G. F., Visible Saints: The Congregational Way 1640-1660 (1957)
* Paul, R. S., "Henry Jacob and Seventeenth-Century Puritanism", Hartford Quarterly, 7 (1967)
* Tolmie, M., The Triumph of the Saints, The Separate Churches of London, 1616-1649 (1977)
* ______. "The Jacob Church", in The Triumph of the Saints, The Separate Churches of London, 1616-1649 (1977)
* von Rohr, J., "The Congregationalism of Henry Jacob", Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, 19 (1962)
* ______. "Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: An Early Congregational Version", Church History, 36 (1967)
* White, B. R., "How did William Kiffin join the Baptist?", Baptist Quarterly, 23
* ______. "Samuel Eaton (d. 1639), Particular Baptist Pioneer", Baptist Quarterly, 24
* Whitley, W. T., "Debate of Infant Baptism, 1643", Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society, 1 (1908-09)
* ______. "The Jacob-Jessey Church, 1616-1678", Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society, 1 (1908-09)
* ______."Records of the Jabob-Lathrop-Jessey Church, 1616-1641", Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society 1, (1908-09)
* ______. 'Rise of the Particular Baptists in London, 1633-1644, Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society 1, (1908-09)
External links
* [http://www.exlibris.org/nonconform/engdis/jacobites.html English Dissenters: Jacobites]
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