John howe puritan biography for kids

John Howe () 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 and settled with his father in Lancaster.

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He studied at Christ&#;s College, Cambridge, and at Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A., ; M.A., ), 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 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 minutes, during which the people sang.

While on a visit to London in  Oliver Cromwell prevailed upon him to preach at Whitehall, with the result that Howe,