{"id":20855,"date":"2023-12-27T02:44:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T02:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=20855"},"modified":"2023-12-27T02:45:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T02:45:01","slug":"the-life-and-ministry-of-isaac-chauncy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2023\/12\/the-life-and-ministry-of-isaac-chauncy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Ministry Of Isaac Chauncy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isaac Chauncy (1632-1712), dissenting minister, eldest son of Charles Chauncy [q. v.], was born on 23 Aug. and baptised at Ware, Hertfordshire, on 30 Aug. 1632. He went as a child to New England with his father, and was entered at Harvard in 1651, where he studied both theology and medicine, but, coming to England, completed his education at Oxford, where he proceeded M.A. Before 1660 he was given the rectory of Woodborough, Wiltshire, where he resided until ejected by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. Thereupon he removed to Andover, Hampshire, where he took charge of a congregational church. On 5 July 1669 he was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians. \u2018Having,\u2019 says Calamy, \u2018quitted Andover some time after the recalling of Charles’s Indulgence, he came to London with a design to act chiefly as a physician\u2019 (Nonconf. Memorial<\/i>, ed. Palmer, iii. 380\u20131). On 30 Sept. 1687 he was induced to accept the pastorate of an independent meeting-house in Bury Street, St. Mary Axe, over which he presided for fourteen years. Chauncy, although a learned man, was not a popular preacher, and being somewhat bigoted, he so tormented his hearers with incessant declamations on church government \u2018that they left him\u2019 (Chalmers, Biog. Dict<\/i>. ix. 218 n.). He therefore resigned his charge on 15 April 1701, and was succeeded by Isaac Watts, who had been his assistant for two years previously. During the whole period of his ministry he had also practised medicine. He afterwards became divinity tutor to the newly founded Dissenting Academy in London, an office which he held until his death. Chauncy died at his house in Little Moorfields on 28 Feb. 1712. By his wife, Jane, he had three sons and a daughter. Chauncy was a voluminous author. Besides a prefatory epistle to Clarkson’s \u2018Primitive Episcopacy,\u2019 1688, and an edition of Owen’s \u2018Gospel Grounds,\u2019 1709, he published: 1. \u2018The Catholic Hierarchy,\u2019 1681. 2. \u2018A Theological Dialogue, containing a Defence and Justification of Dr. John Owen from the forty-two errors charged upon him by Mr. Richard Baxter,\u2019 1684. 3. \u2018The Second Part of the Theological Dialogue, being a rejoinder to Mr. Richard Baxter,\u2019 1684. 4. \u2018The Unreasonableness of compelling Men to go to the Holy Supper,\u2019 1684. 5. \u2018Ecclesia Enucleata: the Temple opened, or a clear demonstration of the True Gospel Church,\u2019 1684. 6. \u2018The Interest of Churches, or a Scripture Plea for Steadfastness in Gospel Order,\u2019 1690. 7. \u2018Ecclesiasticon, or a plain and familiar Christian Conference concerning Gospel Church and Order,\u2019 1690. 8. \u2018Examen Confectionis Pacific\u00e6, or a Friendly Examination of the Pacific Paper.\u2019 [By I. C.], 1692. 9. \u2018Neonomianism unmasked; or the Ancient Gospel pleaded against the other, called a New Law, or Gospel, &c.,\u2019 three parts, 1692\u20133. 10. \u2018A Rejoynder to Mr. D. Williams, his reply to the first part of Neonomianism unmaskt, &c.,\u2019 1693. 11. \u2018A Discourse concerning Unction and Washing of Feet, &c.,\u2019 1697. 12. \u2018The Divine Institution of Congregational Churches, Ministry, and Ordinances, &c.,\u2019 1697. 13. \u2018An Essay to the Interpretation of the Angel Gabriel’s Prophesy deliver’d by the Prophet Daniel, chap. ix. 24,\u2019 1699. 14. \u2018Christ’s Ascension to fill all things \u2026 a sermon [on Eph. iv. 10],\u2019 1699. 15. \u2018Alexipharmacon; or a fresh Antidote against Neonomian Bane and Poyson to the Protestant Religion, &c.,\u2019 1700. 16. \u2018The Doctrine which is according to Godliness, &c.\u2019 [1700?] (another edition, 1737).<\/p>\n

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Isaac Chauncy (1632-1712), dissenting minister, eldest son of Charles Chauncy [q. v.], was born on 23 Aug. and baptised at Ware, Hertfordshire, on 30 Aug. 1632. He went as a child to New England with his father, and was entered at Harvard in 1651, where he studied both theology and medicine, but, coming to England, completed his education at Oxford, where he proceeded M.A. Before 1660 he was given the rectory of Woodborough, Wiltshire, where he resided until ejected by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. Thereupon he removed to Andover, Hampshire, where he took charge of a congregational church. On 5 July 1669 he was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians. \u2018Having,\u2019 says Calamy, \u2018quitted Andover some time after the recalling of Charles’s Indulgence, he came to London with a design to act chiefly as a physician\u2019 (Nonconf. Memorial, ed. Palmer, iii. 380\u20131). On 30 Sept. 1687 he was induced to accept the pastorate of an independent meeting-house in Bury Street, St. Mary Axe, over which he presided for fourteen years. Chauncy, although a learned man, was not a popular preacher, and being somewhat bigoted, he so tormented his hearers with incessant declamations on church government \u2018that they left him\u2019 (Chalmers, Biog. Dict. ix. 218 n.). He therefore resigned his charge on 15 April 1701, and was succeeded by Isaac Watts, who had been his assistant for two years previously. During the whole period of his ministry he had also practised medicine. He afterwards became divinity tutor to the newly founded Dissenting Academy in London, an office which he held until his death. Chauncy died at his house in Little Moorfields on 28 Feb. 1712. By his wife, Jane, he had three sons and a daughter. Chauncy was a voluminous author. Besides a prefatory epistle to Clarkson’s \u2018Primitive Episcopacy,\u2019 1688, and an edition of Owen’s \u2018Gospel Grounds,\u2019 1709, he published: 1. \u2018The Catholic Hierarchy,\u2019 1681. 2. \u2018A Theological Dialogue, containing a Defence and Justification of Dr. John Owen from the forty-two errors charged upon him by Mr. Richard Baxter,\u2019 1684. 3. \u2018The Second Part of the Theological Dialogue, being a rejoinder to Mr. Richard Baxter,\u2019 1684. 4. \u2018The Unreasonableness of compelling Men to go to the Holy Supper,\u2019 1684. 5. \u2018Ecclesia Enucleata: the Temple opened, or a clear demonstration of the True Gospel Church,\u2019 1684. 6. \u2018The Interest of Churches, or a Scripture Plea for Steadfastness in Gospel Order,\u2019 1690. 7. \u2018Ecclesiasticon, or a plain and familiar Christian Conference concerning Gospel Church and Order,\u2019 1690. 8. \u2018Examen Confectionis Pacific\u00e6, or a Friendly Examination of the Pacific Paper.\u2019 [By I. C.], 1692. 9. \u2018Neonomianism unmasked; or the Ancient Gospel pleaded against the other, called a New Law, or Gospel, &c.,\u2019 three parts, 1692\u20133. 10. \u2018A Rejoynder to Mr. D. Williams, his reply to the first part of Neonomianism unmaskt, &c.,\u2019 1693. 11. \u2018A Discourse concerning Unction and Washing of Feet, &c.,\u2019 1697. 12. \u2018The Divine Institution of Congregational Churches, Ministry, and Ordinances, &c.,\u2019 1697. 13. \u2018An Essay to the Interpretation of the Angel Gabriel’s Prophesy deliver’d by the Prophet Daniel, chap. ix. 24,\u2019 1699. 14. \u2018Christ’s Ascension to fill all things \u2026 a sermon [on Eph. iv. 10],\u2019 1699. 15. \u2018Alexipharmacon; or a fresh Antidote against Neonomian Bane and Poyson to the Protestant Religion, &c.,\u2019 1700. 16. \u2018The Doctrine which is according to Godliness, &c.\u2019 [1700?] (another edition, 1737).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":20853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1582],"tags":[1226],"class_list":["post-20855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-isaac-chauncy","tag-gospel-preachers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20856,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855\/revisions\/20856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}