John Owen and English Puritanism

Gribben, Crawford

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“…While coming to terms with the new political realities-the psychological and material difficulties of which he inadvertently revealed in Animadversions on a Treatise intitled Fiat lux (1662) and its Vindication (1664)-Owen had to deal with significant personal tragedy. 22 The deaths of his daughter, Judith, in May 1664, and his son, Matthew, in April 1665, both of whom were buried in Stoke Newington, left him and his wife, Mary, with only one surviving child. 23 With no end in sight to the persecution of dissenters, and now with little left to lose, Owen made plans to move to New England.…”

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“…22 The deaths of his daughter, Judith, in May 1664, and his son, Matthew, in April 1665, both of whom were buried in Stoke Newington, left him and his wife, Mary, with only one surviving child. 23 With no end in sight to the persecution of dissenters, and now with little left to lose, Owen made plans to move to New England. 24 Owen's eventual decision against emigration may have been made around the same time that the congregation in Stoke Newington began to gather.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Lucy Hutchinson, John Owen’s Congregation, and the Literary Cultures of Nonconformity

Gribben

2022

The Review of English Studies

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This article advances the reconstruction of the ‘literary culture of nonconformity’ by examining activities of memorializing and collecting within the congregation with which Lucy Hutchinson was associated in the 1670s. This congregation, led by John Owen, retained a distinctive political culture. In spring 1673, its female adherents included the widow and daughter of former members of the Council of State, while the 15 men in membership included one former Lord Chancellor of Ireland, two members of the first Protectorate Parliament, three former Major-Generals, other former officers, several of whom after the Restoration had been imprisoned, as well as a younger man who would be elected to the three Exclusion Parliaments. Their literary work provides a critical context for Hutchinson’s projects in collecting, writing and translating in the 1670s. Throughout this period, and thereafter, congregants kept commonplace books with political, theological and biographical materials, gathered collections of transcriptions of Owen’s sermons, and took notes on his published works, largely independently of one another, while engaging with the broader literary and scientific cultures of the period. This activity paralleled that of Hutchinson, who nevertheless retained a critical distance from the fellowship with which she associated. But the evidence of these commonplace books speaks to the difficulties of the situation of dissent and suggests that some members found the congregation’s religious expectations increasingly difficult to sustain.

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Section: John Owen's Congregationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: John Owen's Congregationmentioning

confidence: 99%