John Paget (priest)
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John Paget (died 1638) was an English nonconforming clergyman, who became pastor at the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam.
Life
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, proceeding B.A. in 1595, and M.A. in 1598.[1] After having held some other benefices, he was appointed in 1598 rector of Nantwich. Ejected for nonconformity, he went in 1605 to the Netherlands. There for two years he was chaplain to an English regiment, but in 1607 the presbytery of Amsterdam appointed him minister of the newly founded English and Scottish church there. He remained in the post till 1637, when he resigned on account of age.[2] He was succeeded as pastor by Julines Herring, an English nonconformist who continued the Presbyterian tradition in Amsterdam.
He enjoyed the friendship of James I's daughter Elizabeth of Bohemia. He engaged in controversies on infant baptism and church government with Henry Ainsworth, John Davenport, and William Best, who in reality was a cipher for the separatist John Canne. Davenport denounced him as an "unjust doer," tyrannical in government and corrupt in doctrine; but he was supported by the Amsterdam authorities.[2]
He died, probably in the vicinity of Amsterdam, on 18 August 1638. Thomas Paget (d. 1660), his brother, also served the English Church at Amsterdam, but returned to England about 1639. He was a sizar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1605, B.A. 1608, and M.A. 1612, Under the Commonwealth he was incumbent of Blackley, near Manchester, till 1646, rector of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, till 1656, and rector of Stockport till his death in 1660. He was father of Nathan Paget.[2]
Works
His works comprise:
- Paget, John (1601), A Primary of the Christian Religion, London
- Paget, John (1618), An arrovv against the separation of the Brownists. Also an admonition tovching Talmudique & rabbinical allegations, Amsterdam, OL 24649449M
- P[aget], I[ohn] (1622), Wisdomes Bountie to Heauenly Pilgrims, In middest of their manifold distractions: Unmasking the Man of Sinne, against the battell of the great day, London: G. Eld (printer) I. Budre (folder), OL 24994874M (in IA the title is wrong)
- Paget, John (1639), Meditations of Death, Dort (dedicated by his widow to the princess palatine)
- Paget, John (1641), A Defence of Church Government
- Paget, John (1641), A defence of church-government, exercised in presbyteriall, classicall, & synodall assemblies, according to the practise of the reformed churches : touching I. the power of a particular eldership against those that plead for a meere popular government, specially Mr Ainsvvorth in his Animadversion to Mr Clyft, &c. II. the authority of classes and synods, against the patrons of independencie, answering in this poynt Mr Davenport his Apologeticall reply, &c. and Mr Canne his Churches plea ..., London, OL 16875407M
- Paget, John (1642), A Censure upon a Dialogue of the Anabaptists [2]
Robert Paget, minister at Dort 1638-85, who edited one of John Paget's works, was Paget's nephew. He described himself as a Leicestershire man.[2]
Notes
- ↑ "Paget, John (PGT592J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4
"Paget, John (d.1640)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Paget, John (d.1640)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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