OWEN. 
the Independents, and formed a church, aera to their 
fyftem of difcip Upon the pre revalence of the inde- 
conden party, i was oe to preach Nie the cae 
on one of the fatt. ae in — n this and other occafions 
Mr. Owen’s fervices e fo acceptable to the Commons, 
that he was afterwards ica uently appointed to preach be- 
fore them, and became the favourite of Fairfax and Crom- 
With the ae: he went to Ireland, where he re- 
. He was now 
gain to preach at Whitehall, and very foon after 
accompanied the proteétor into Scotland. 
promoted to the deanery of Chriftchurch college in Oxford ; 
when he went to, refide there Cromwell was the chancellor 
: by virtue of his. o 
faces to put down habits, formalities, and all cere- 
e taken an oath to 
obferve the ftatutes, and maintain the privileges of the uni- 
verfity. In many refpects Anthony Wood {peaks very dif- 
Owen; but 
moned a parliame 
candidate for reprefentin g the univerfity, and was elected, but 
is circumftance 
Calamy and other hiftorians of that pe 
Cromwell fucceeded his father as chancellor of the univerfity, 
‘the poft of vice-chancellor, as 
3 favour when he became protecto 
this is attributed chiefly to the hoftility of the Prefbyterian 
part Dr. Owen was, indeed, one of the leading men in 
the affembly of the Independents, ‘which met at the Savoy 
in Oétober 1658, and he had a principal fhare in drawing 
he was driven away by the {oldier 
place to place, till at length he arrived in Lon 
by one of his publications, he became noticed by the lord 
chancellor Clarendon, who offered to give him preferment, 
provided he would conform to the church, which the doétor 
thought proper to decline. From the interruptions to 
bo me time, received an offe 
aa ioe ‘a _, in ae aie Provinces, which he 
— ed. in a private manner as 
his ae ailage him that he was a friend to liberty of con- 
{cience, and was fenfible that the diffenters had met with in- 
jurious treatment, at the fame time prefenting him with a 
ar ce i Sea to diftribute among thofe who had fuffered 
moft e late feverities, which royal donation the do€tor 
received ‘with tha oad heer and applied with the aaa 
de Dr. Owen died at =e f uft 
th 
Ea 
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friendly, and his condué& in the 
peculiarly amiable and affeCtionate. 
affeGted piety, and of his firm and undeviating integrity, 
his whole hiftory affords fufficient evidence. His works 
are numerous ; the chief are “ An Expofition of the Epiftle 
to the Hebrews,”’ q vols. fol.; ‘ Difcourfe on the Holy 
Spirit; « Treatife on Original Sin”? All his various 
writings amount to feven vols. in folio, twenty in quarto, 
and about thirty in oftavo, To his great earning and 
almoft unceafing i ae his works bear abundan 
Dr. Calamy fays, ‘“ he was a man of univerfa 
had di ofa it. He was efp 
degre 
ment of the acca of Oxford.’ 
fays, ** he wasa mafter o 
Hebr brew tongue was a great pilotop ber and alfo 
well read in the rag law great hiftorian, having a 
perfect comprehenfion of church oil in parila, 
was thorou 
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moft opprobrious language, 
fays, ‘“‘ he had a very ns ree in the pulpit, an 
eloquent elocution, a winning and infinuating deportment, 
and could, by the perfuafion of his oratory, in conjun@tion 
with foine. other outward advantages, move and wind the 
affeCtions of his admiring auditory almoft as he pleafed.’’ 
Calamy’s aie Minifters, Biog. Br it. Granger’s Biog. 
Hift. of Englan 
0 was a native of Caermarthenfhire, and 
received his education . Winchetter fchool, under Dr. 
Bilfon. In 1584 he was admitted a fellow of New col- 
lege, Oxford, where he ssatined till x 59%) when he was 
appointed mafter of a fchool near Monm 
ined 
aa) 
poetry, efpeciaily in the epigrammatic kind. e is faid to 
have experienced the poet’s fate - perpetual gabeies but 
he met with a kind friend in bi lord-keeper Wil- 
iams, by whom he was chiefly japoeel in the ae years of 
his hfe. He diedin 1622, and was buried, at bifhop Wil- 
liams’ expence, in St. Paul’s cathedral. His epigrams 
ae been colle&ted in twelve books, and have been publifhed 
feveral times. It has oe faid of them, that they are only infe- 
Several have been tranflated in 
langua tranfcribe the one which a 
for containing an elegant ae Sra to fir Tho ver- 
referred, ee ey 
s*© Uxorem culto defcribis Fad talem 
Qualem oratorem Tullius ore potens 3 
OweEN, Heuny, a learned divine of cies caurch of Eng- 
4 Y 2 land, 
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