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henry denne wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 early life 2 ministry toggle ministry subsection 2 1 theological changes 2 2 in the army 3 later life 4 works 5 notes and references toggle notes and references subsection 5 1 citations 5 2 sources 6 external links toggle the table of contents henry denne add languages add links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia english cleric theologian and reformer 1606 c 1660 the reverend henry denne born 1606 ickham kent kingdom of england died c 1660 1660 00 00 aged 53 54 kingdom of england education sidney sussex college bachelor of arts 1625 master of arts 1628 occupations minister theologian notable work the doctrine and conversation of john baptist the foundation of children s baptism ordination history history priestly ordination ordained by theophilus field bishop of the diocese of st davids date 1630 part of a series on baptists background christianity protestantism church of england theology confessions of faith second london confession of faith particular baptist orthodox creed general baptist doctrines baptist covenant theology regenerate church credobaptism sola scriptura sola fide priesthood of all believers soul competency local churches autonomy key figures list of baptists john smyth thomas helwys john murton edward barber hugh evans roger williams john clarke samuel loveday thomas lambe john spilsbury john griffith hanserd knollys henry lawrence john bunyan henry danvers henry denne william kiffin thomas grantham benjamin keach paul palmer john gill william johnson william carey andrew fuller daniel taylor shubal stearns john leland isaac backus charles spurgeon joseph angus luther rice james boyce gavin ortlund organizations denominations baptist world alliance christianity portal v t e henry denne 1606 c 1660 1 was an english puritan cleric of the church of england divine theologian itinerant preacher and later a religious reformer of baptist views denne was a notable preacher and apologist throughout england by propagating baptism of believers only in contrast to the baptism of infants he was vicar of eltisley cambridgeshire and before that briefly elder of coleman street general baptist church in london denne was also sometime soldier for the parliament and chaplain to oliver cromwell in the civil war early life edit chapel court of sidney sussex college henry denne was born on 1606 to david denne in ickham county of kent in the kingdom of england as his youngest son his father david was a gentleman of kent denne was educated at latton essex under his uncle thomas denne then vicar of latton he was admitted to cambridge by thomas where he was matriculated as a sizar at sidney sussex college in may 1621 denne graduated b a in 1625 and m a in 1628 1 2 ministry edit in 1630 denne was ordained in the church of england by theophilus feild bishop of st david s and soon in 1631 he became curate of pirton hertfordshire a preaching office he held for about 10 years denne s son john denne was baptised on 29 may 1633 in 1641 denne was selected with other clerics by the committee of the house of commons for ecclesiastical preferment he delivered a controversial sermon at baldock at the visitation held there giving offence by attacking the vices of the clergy his sermon was subsequently published as the doctrine and conversation of john baptist in 1642 and circulated throughout england theological changes edit soon after the outbreak of the civil war henry denne became convinced of the baptism of believers only in contrast with the baptism of infants denne went to london and allied with the baptists being baptised by immersion into the coleman street church in 1643 he left the office in pirton but didn t resign his ordination and preaching license in the church of england he was soon chosen to pastorate the church along with thomas lambe and samuel oates who preached universal grace the arminian tenets 3 he continued his ministry preaching in the parish churches throughout england by now persuading to reform on baptism denne was considered a great arminian by thomas edwards 4 his change of opinion regarding baptism brought persecution and in 1644 he was apprehended in cambridgeshire by order of the committee of the county for preaching against infant baptism after he had lain in cambridge gaol for a time his case through the intercession of friends was referred to a committee of the house and he was sent to london where he was confined in lord petre s residence in aldersgate street after his case was investigated the committee ordered his release among his fellow prisoners was dr daniel featley an opponent of baptists who wrote the dippers dipt his book was brought to denne s notice shortly after his release denne challenged featley to a disputation featley pleading the danger of publicly disputing without a license declined to continue with it denne then wrote the foundation of children s baptism discovered and rased an answer to dr featley c 1645 which was recognized as a standard authority by the english baptists church of st pandionia and st john the baptist where henry denne became parish priest afterwards denne was appointed to the vicarage of eltisley in cambridgeshire by the parliament of england leaving the pastorate in coleman street and though opposed both presbyterians and prelatists managed to retain the new office for several years denne was appointed to preach a lecture at st ives however the committee of cambridgeshire endeavoured to prevent him on being interrupted while preaching he left the church and going into a neighbouring churchyard continued to preach from under a tree to the large crowd in the army edit in june 1646 denne was apprehended by the magistrates at spalding lincolnshire for administering a baptism in river welland but was released he was however persecuted by neighbouring ministers denne then temporarily resigned his living and became a soldier and chaplain to the parliament s army there he gained a great reputation for zeal and courage at the conclusion of the civil war he returned to his ecclesiastical office he went to canterbury in 1655 later life edit in 1658 denne held a public dispute lasting two days concerning infant baptism with peter gunning in st clement danes church in 1660 denne published an open letter addressing criticisms to the violation of freedom of conscience in the prisons of england he died in the same year works edit although a partisan denne s views were moderate he preached arminian tenets according to some but others in bad faith tried to libel him as antinomian besides the works already mentioned he wrote grace mercy and peace 1640 reprinted in 1696 the man of sin discovered whom the lord will destroy with the brightness of his coming 1645 the drag net of the kingdom of heaven or christ s drawing all men 1646 the levellers design discovered 1649 a contention for truth in two several disputations at st clement s church between dr gunning and henry denne concerning infant baptism 1658 the quaker no papist in answer to the quaker disarmed 1659 an epistle recommended to all prisons in this city and nation to such as chuse restraint rather than the violation of their consciences wherein is maintained 1 the lawfulness of an oath 2 the antiquity of an oath 3 the universality of it with the most material objections answered 1660 notes and references edit oxford dictionary of national biography denne henry 1605 6 1666 general baptist minister and religious controversialist by t l underwood this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain denne henry dictionary of national biography london smith elder co 1885 1900 citations edit 1 2 oxford dictionary of national biography denne henry 1605 6 1666 general baptist intinerant minister religious controversialist by t l underwood denne henry dn621h a cambridge alumni database university of cambridge campbell 2012 p 178 campbell 2012 p 178 in the same period 1640s the general baptists thomas lamb and samuel oates preached universal grace the arminian tenets throughout surrey hampshire and essex according to thomas edwards edwards also professed dislike for the great arminian henry denne leader of a parish church on a manor in cambridgeshire sources edit campbell kenneth l 2012 windows into men s souls religious nonconformity in tudor and early stuart england plymouth lexington books external links edit henry denne biographical information henry denne collected writings authority control databases international isni viaf fast worldcat national united states other open library yale lux retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title henry_denne oldid 1365603150 categories 1606 births 1666 deaths 17th century baptists 17th century english anglican priests alumni of sidney sussex college cambridge arminian ministers arminian theological writers english baptists clergy from kent roundheads hidden categories articles with short description short description is different from wikidata use dmy dates from october 2019 articles using infobox templates with no data rows pages using ordination template and denomination parameter pages with template ordination embedded articles with hcards articles incorporating cite dnb template articles 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