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Robert Harris (minister)

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1428: 474: 114:, and other London churches, as well as in his own neighbourhood. He was a staunch Puritan and Parliamentarian. On 25 April 1642 he was chosen one of the holy divines to be consulted by Parliament, and on the occasion of a public fast (25 May) preached before the 69:, 10 June 1597, when his relative Robert Lyster aka Lyson was principal. In order to obtain tuition in philosophy, he taught Greek and Hebrew. He graduated B.A. on 5 June 1600, and though originally intended for the law, decided to enter the church. 125:
the royalist troopers quartered at Hanwell turned out Harris and his family, and he was finally ejected from his living and obliged to go to London (September 1642). He was there made one of the Westminster Assembly, and received the living of
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describes him as one of the most eminent divines for preaching and practical theology. He published a large number of separate sermons. The chief authority is a eulogistic life by a friend, William Durham, Harris's kinsman and minister of
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Dr Harris was a man of admirable prudence, profound judgement, eminent gifts and graces, furnished with all the singular qualifications which might render him a complete man, a wise governor, a profitable preacher and a good
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The life and death of that judicious divine, and accomplish'd preacher, Robert Harris, D.D. late president of Trinity Colledge in Oxon.
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He was satirised by the royalists as a notorious pluralist, but there is no proof that he enjoyed all his livings at the same time.
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He was born into a large family to John Harris, yeoman (whose family had originally come from Shropshire), and Elizabeth Hyron at
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Absaloms funerall: preached at Banburie, by a neighbour minister. Or, The lamentation of a loving father for a rebellious childe
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Hezekiahs recovery. Or, A sermon, shevving what use Hezekiah did, and all should make of their deliverance from sicknesse.
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A sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, at a publike fast, May, 25. 1642.
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Two letters written by Mr. Harris in vindication of himselfe from the known slanders of an unknown author.
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Returning to Oxford Robert studied theology for ten years, and graduated B.D. on 5 May 1614. In 1614
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Samuels funeral: or, a sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Anthonie Cope, Knight, and Barronnet.
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his first visitation sermon, in which he defended himself from the charge of
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Visitation of Gloucestershire 1623:- Pedigree of Gyles Harris of Churchill
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The blessednesse of a sound spirit: with the misery of a wounded spirit
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A brief discourse of mans estate in the first and second Adam
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On 12 April 1648 the chancellor of the University of Oxford,
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When in 1604 the university was dissolved on account of the
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M.A. D.D. who was, amongst other things, chaplain to
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Six sermons preached on severall texts and occasions
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Index

Robert Harris (President of Trinity)
Westminster Assembly
Trinity College, Oxford
Broad Campden
Gloucestershire
Chipping Campden School
King's School, Worcester
Magdalen Hall, Oxford
plague
Banbury
Malachi Harris
Mary Princess of Orange
Charles II
Sir Anthony Cope
Hanwell, Oxfordshire
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Saviour's Southwark
House of Commons
battle of Edgehill
St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate
Petersfield
visitor to the university
University Church of St Mary the Virgin
pluralism
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
Hannibal Potter
Garsington
All Souls' College
John Wilkins
Tredington

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