John Paget (priest)
| John Paget | |
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| Born |
c.1574 Possibly Rothley |
| Died | 18 August 1638 Amsterdam |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| Occupation | Anglican clergyman, Dutch Reformed pastor.. |
| Years active | 1598–1637 |
| Religion | Calvinist, Presbyterian |
| Church | Church of England, Dutch Reformed Church |
| Writings |
A Primary of the Christian Religion (1601) An arrovv against the separation of the Brownists (1618) Wisdomes Bountie to Heauenly Pilgrims (1622) Meditations of Death (1639) A Defence Of Church-Government, Exercised in Presbyteriall, Classicall, & Synodall Assemblies (1641) A Censure upon a Dialogue of the Anabaptists (1642). |
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Offices held
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Rector of St Mary's Church, Nantwich Chaplain to English forces in the Netherlands Pastor of English Reformed Church, Amsterdam. |
John Paget (c.1574—August 18, 1638) was an English nonconforming clergyman, who became pastor at the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam. He was a steadfast defender of Presbyterianism and orthodox Calvinism in numerous controversies with English exiles in the Dutch Republic.
John Paget seems to have been descended from the Paget family of Rothley, which is on the edge of Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire. He and Thomas Paget, his younger brother and fellow Puritan minister, were possibly born there or elsewhere in the county. His nephew and adopted son, Robert Paget, described himself as, Licestrensis, "a Leicestershire man", on registration at Leiden University in 1628, suggesting that John and Thomas Paget had at least one brother who continued to live in the county. The vicar of Rothley in 1564 was Harold Paget and the family's connection with the village was long-lasting: a memorial window to family members was dedicated in the parish church in 1897.
John Paget entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a sizar, a scholar receiving some support, probably in 1592, suggesting a birth date around 1574. He graduated B.A. in 1595, and proceeded M.A. in 1598.
Paget related in a An Answer to the Unjust Complaints, a polemical work, that his "ardent affection" or inner compulsion to preach manifested itself at an early age. By 1598, the year of his MA, he had already been appointed rector of Nantwich in Cheshire. Hall, a distinguished Victorian historian of the town, implies Paget first appeared in the town as a preacher under the previous incumbent, William Holford. In 1601 he had his first book published in London: A Primer of Christian Religion, or a forme of Catechising, drawne from the beholding of Gods works. In 1602 he married Briget or Bridget the daughter of Richard Masterson and widow of George or John Thrushe.
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