Theological Treatises by John Howe
Contains three treatises from Howe: - God's Prescience of the Sins of Men - The Vanity of this Mortal Life - The Redeemer's Dominion Over the Invisible World John Howe (1630-1705) was an English Puritan theologian. He served briefly as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. Howe was born at Loughborough. At the age of five he went to Ireland with his father, who had been ejected from his living by William Laud, but returned to England in 1641 and settled with his father in Lancaster. He studied at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and at Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A., 1650; M.A., 1652), where for a time he was fellow and college chaplain. At Cambridge he came under the influence of Ralph Cudworth and Henry More, from whom he probably received the Platonic tinge that marks his writings. About 1654 he was appointed to the perpetual curacy of Great Torrington, Devon. In this place, according to his own statement, he was engaged in the pulpit on fast-days from nine to four, with a recess of fifteen m