Nathaniel Holmes (theologian) explained

Nathaniel Holmes or Homes[1] (1599–1678) was an English Independent theologian and preacher. He has been described as a “Puritan writer of great ability".[2]

Life

He graduated with a B.A. from Exeter College, Oxford in 1620; and with an M.A. from Magdalen Hall, Oxford in 1623. He later founded an Independent church, with Henry Burton;[3] he was rector of St Mary Staining, Oat Lane, Aldersgate, in London to 1662. In 1644 his Gospell-Musick defended and promoted psalm-singing, and reprinted the preface to the Bay Psalm Book.[4]

A convinced millenarian, he preached to the House of Commons in 1641, under the influence of Thomas Brightman.[5] In 1650, in another sermon to the Commons after the battle of Dunbar, he cited the Book of Daniel and Book of Revelation.[6] He has been considered a follower of Johann Heinrich Alsted.[7]

He with Henry Jessey corresponded with Menasseh ben Israel, about the official return of Jews to England, and the supposed Lost Tribes found in North America.[8] This interest was prompted by John Dury’s interest,[9] and was shared with others.[10] His philo-Semitism has been noted, for example, by Werner Sombart.[11]

Views

His 1640 work on usury was against the permissive line of William Ames.[12] He was against political "levelling".[13] He defended infant baptism, and attacked John Goodwin on salvation by works.[14]

He wrote against witchcraft,[15] proposing an influential three-fold scheme of possession,[16] and astrology, regretting its prevalence.[17]

Works

Notes

  1. Also Nathanael.
  2. Book: Wiley, H. Orton . Christian Theology. 1940. Beacon Hill Press. 0-8341-0332-X. Chapter 34.
  3. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography.
  4. Book: Haraszti, Zoltán. The Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book. 1956. University of Chicago Press. 19. 382590.
  5. Web site: Bacon. Richard. A Westminster Bibliography Part 5: Hermeneutical Background. First Presbyterian Church of Rowlett. 29 October 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031060629/http://fpcr.org/blue_banner_articles/wb5.htm. 31 October 2010.
  6. Book: Hill, Christopher. The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution. 1993. Allen Lane. 978-0-7139-9078-2. 301.
  7. Web site: Larsen. David L.. Some key issues in the history of premillennialism. Pre-Trib Research Center. October 29, 2010. 7.
  8. Van der Waal. Ernestine G.E.. Three Letters by Menasseh Ben Israel to John Durie: English Philo-Judaism and the Spes Israelis. Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis. 1985. 65. 49, 53.
  9. Web site: Tillotson. Jonathan Mark. The Whitehall Conference of 1655 and the Readmission of the Jews to England. Readmissionofthejews.blogspot.com. 29 October 2010.
  10. Book: Matt Goldish. The Sabbatean prophets. 2004. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-01291-2. 16–17. . (This source also mentions Samuel Hartlib and Margaret Fell.)
  11. Book: Sombart, Werner. The Jews and Modern Capitalism. 2001. Batoche Books. 175. 501337657.
  12. Book: Hill, Christopher. The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution. 1993. Allen Lane. 978-0-7139-9078-2. 169.
  13. Book: Hill, Christopher. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution. 1984. Penguin . 978-0-14-013732-3. 122.
  14. Book: Hughes, Ann. Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution. 2004. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-925192-6. 325. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070929103024/http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-925192-4.pdf. 2007-09-29.
  15. Book: Thomas, Keith. Keith Thomas (historian)

    . Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. 1997. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-521360-7. 623. Keith Thomas (historian). (Citing Daemonologie of 1650.)

  16. http://uwch-4.humanities.washington.edu/classes/520/TEXTS/Calv-Psych_Salem.pdf PDF
  17. Book: Thomas, Keith. Keith Thomas (historian)

    . Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. 1997. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-521360-7. 361. Keith Thomas (historian). (Citing Plain Dealing, a sermon of 1652.)

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