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Joseph Symonds (pastor)

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Joseph Symonds (d. 1652) was an English Pastor and puritan.[1]

Career

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When Joseph Symonds was a young man he was assistant to Thomas Gataker at Rotherhithe.[2] He was appointed rector of St. Martin's Ironmonger-lane, London,[3] in 1632. He was persecuted by Archbishop Laud for adopting the church government views of the Independents.[2] Symonds took refuge in the Netherlands in 1639, where he along with William Bridge and Jeremiah Burroughs was appointed pastor of an English-speaking congregation at Rotterdam.[4]

Symonds returned to England in 1647 and was appointed as a minister in John Goodwin's congregation on 1 March.[5] On the same year he became the vice president and fellow of Eton College which office he held until his death in 1652.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Edwards, Thomas (1646). Gangrsena, part 3. pp. 241–242. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-21.
  2. ^ a b c Beeke, Joel R. (2006). Meet the Puritans : with a guide to modern reprints. Randall J. Pederson. Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books. ISBN 978-1-60178-000-3. OCLC 77184678.
  3. ^ Laud, William. "Wharton's Troubles of Laud, vol. i." quod.lib.umich.edu. p. 559. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  4. ^ Baillie, Robert (1645). A dissuasive from the errours of the time. London. pp. 174–175. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-05.
  5. ^ Coffey, John (2006). John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-century England. Tamesis Books. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-84383-428-1.