Samuel Hoard
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|birth_date = 1599
|birth_place = London, England
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|occupation = Clergyman
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Samuel Hoard (1599–1658)The ODNB gives date of death as 1659: http://oxforddnb.com/index/101013381/ was an English clergyman and controversialist in the Arminian interest. He is credited with the first worked-out attack on Calvinistic doctrine by an English churchman.{{cite web |url=http://www.presbyterianreformed.org/articlesbooksShow.php?articlesID=24 |title=Samuel Hoard |publisher=Presbyterian / Reformed Churches |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713083624/http://www.presbyterianreformed.org/articlesbooksShow.php?articlesID=24 |archive-date=2010-07-13 }}
Life
He was born in London in 1599, and became either a clerk or a chorister of All Souls' College, Oxford, in 1614. He matriculated on 10 October 1617, and migrated to St Mary Hall, where he graduated B.A. 20 April 1618, and commenced M.A. in 1621.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hoard, Samuel|volume=27}}
He became chaplain to Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, who presented him in 1626 to the rectory of Moreton, near Ongar, Essex.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15606| title=Moreton, Essex| publisher=British History database}} On 15 June 1630 he was admitted B.D. at Oxford. In 1637 he was collated to the prebend of Willesden in the church of St Paul.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45453 |title= Willesden, Middlesex| publisher=British History database| access-date=2009-04-14}} He died on 15 February 1657 O.S., and was buried in the chancel of Moreton Church. Wood says he was "well read in the fathers and schoolmen, was a good disputant and preacher, a zealous Calvinist in the beginning, but a greater Arminian afterwards".Wood, Anthony à, Athenae Oxon. ed. Philip Bliss, iii. 449.
Works
His Gods Love to Mankind; manifested by disproving his absolute Decree for their Damnation provoked several answers. John DavenantAnimadversions upon a treatise intitled, Gods love to mankind (1641). was, according to Lee Gatiss, influential in replying to the Arminian positions of Hoard and Henry Mason.{{cite web|url=http://www.theologian.org.uk/gatissnet/documents/ShadesofOpinionbyLeeGatiss.pdf |title=Lee Gatiss's opinion| author=Gatiss, Lee}}, p. 4. Some pieces by Mason were included in Gods Love to Mankind.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Mason, Henry (1573?-1647)|volume=36}} There was also a reply from Moïse Amyraut,Doctrinae Joannis Calvini de absoluto reprobationis decreto defensio adversus scriptorem anonymum. and Hoard's work is referred to by Nathaniel Culverwel.Of the Light of Nature; a discourse (1857 edition by John Brown and John Cairns).{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/oflightofnatured00culvrich |title=Of the Light of Nature |author=Culverwell, Nathaniel}}, at p. 290. A posthumous work of William Twisse, with Henry Jeanes and John Goodwin, also replied explicitly.The riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the vessells of wrath, or, An answer unto a book entituled, Gods love unto mankind (1653).
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