Ten Commandments (Revised)

Thomas Watson

ISBN 10: 0851516815 / ISBN 13: 9780851516813

Published by Banner of Truth Trust May 1996, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ten Commandments (Revised)
• Publisher: Banner of Truth Trust May 1996
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851516815
• ISBN 13: 9780851516813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Christian

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Synopsis

Makes up, with A Body of Divinity and The Lords Prayer, Watson's Body of Practical Divinity.

About the Author

Thomas Watson (1620 1686) was an English, Nonconformist, Puritan preacher and author. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was noted for remarkably intense study. In 1646 he commenced a sixteen-year pastorate at St. Stephen's, Walbrook. He showed strong Presbyterian views during the civil war, with, however, an attachment to the king, and in 1651 he was imprisoned briefly with some other ministers for his share in Christopher Love's plot to recall Charles II of England. He was released on 30 June 1652, and was formally reinstated as vicar of St. Stephen's Walbrook. He obtained great fame and popularity as a preacher until the Restoration, when he was ejected for Nonconformity. Notwithstanding the rigor of the acts against dissenters, Watson continued to exercise his ministry privately as he found opportunity. Upon the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 he obtained a license to preach at the great hall in Crosby House. After preaching there for several years, his health gave way, and he retired to Barnston, Essex, where he died suddenly while praying in secret. He was buried on 28 July 1686.