John Owen

John Owen (1616-1683) was an English theologian, a Puritan divine, born in Oxfordshire, educated at Oxford. Driven from the Church, he became first a Presbyterian then an Independent. Cromwell made him chaplain for a sermon he preached the day after Charles I.'s execution, and he was presented in 1651 with the deanery of Christ Church, Oxford, and next year with the Vice-Chancellorship, but on the Restoration was deprived of both, after which, from 1657, he spent his life in retirement. He wrote an exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, on the Holy Spirit, and many other works in exposition of the Puritan theology, which at one time were held in greater favour than they are now.

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