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John Rowe (1626–1677) was an English clergyman, minister to an important Congregationalist church in London. ==Life== He was born in Crediton, Devon.〔Walter Wilson, ''The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses'' (1810), p. 156.〕 He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Oxford, where he attended New Inn Hall.〔''University of Oxford College Histories: From Their Foundations to the Twentieth Century'' (1998), pp. 144-5.〕 His 1653 book ''Tragi-comoedia'' took an incident in his parish of Witney as a judgement on those attending dramatic productions. The floor of an upper room of The White Hart Inn collapsed during a performance by travelling players of ''Mucedorus''.〔Alexandra Walsham, ''Providence in Early Modern England'' (1999), p. 7.〕 In 1654 he was appointed lecturer to Westminster Abbey.〔 Daniel Neal, Joshua Toulmin, ''The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Nonconformists: From the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688'' (1837), p. 209〕 In October 1656 he preached to Parliament, then giving thanks for a naval victory in the Caribbean.〔Christopher Hill, ''The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution'' (1993), p. 101.〕In 1659 at the State Funeral of John Bradshaw, the President of the Court that had condemned Charles I, he gave the eulogy. However, he was displaced from his position by the Restoration of 1660, and in 1662 refused to conform, losing his status and being ejected as Anglican minister.〔http://greatejection.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html〕 After some moves, he established a church in Holborn, London, where he was assisted by Theophilus Gale.〔 http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Theophilus_Gale〕 Thomas Rowe (1657–1705) was his son. He took over the church after Gale’s death, and moved it to Girdlers’ Hall, which opened in 1681 in Basinghall Street.〔 Walter Wilson, History & Antiquities of the Dissenting Churches - Vol. 2 (reprinted 2001), p. 514.〕〔http://www.oldlondonmaps.com/viewspages/0290.html〕 It had Isaac Watts in its congregation.〔 http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/issac_watts.htm〕 Henry Grove, friend of Watts, was Rowe’s nephew.〔 Alan P. F. Sell, Testimony and Tradition: Studies in Reformed and Dissenting Thought (2005), p. 91.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Rowe (minister)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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