Wilkinson, Henry
, one of four divines of the name
of Wilkinson, who made considerable noise at Oxford
during the usurpation, was born in the vicarage of Halifax
in Yorkshire, Oct. 9, 1566, and came to Oxford in 158],
where he was elected a probationer fellow of Merton college, by the interest of his relation Mr. afterwards sir
Henry Savile, the warden. In 1586 he proceeded in arts,
and studying divinity, took his bachelor’s degree in that
faculty. In 1601 he was preferred to the living of Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire, which he held for forty-six
years. He was a man of considerable learning and piety,
and being an old puritan, Wood says, he was elected one
of the assembly of divines in 1643. He was the author of
“A Catechism for the use of the congregation of Waddesdon,” 8vo, of which there was a fourth edition in 1647.
He published also “The Debt-Book; or a treatise upon.
Romans xiii. 8. wherein is handled the civil debt of money
or goods,” Lond. 1625, 8vo and other things, the names
of which Wood has not mentioned. He died at Waddesdon March 19, 1647, aged eighty-one, and was buried in
his own church, with a monumental inscription. By his
wife Sarah, the daughter of Mr. Arthur Wake, another
puritan, he had six sons and three daughters. One of his
sons, Edward, was born in 1607, and educated at Magdalen-hall, Oxford, which he entered when little more than
eleven years old, and completed his degrees in arts at the
age of eighteen. He must have been of extraordinary
parts, or extraordinary interest, for in 1627, when only
twenty, he was chosen professor of rhetoric in Gresham
college. All that Ward has been able to discover of him,
is, that he held this office upwards of eleven years, and
resigned it in 1638. Another of the rector of Waddesdon’s
sons, a more distinguished character, is the subject of our
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Works found by this author (or others with similar names) in the Early English Books Online Collection:
A sermon against lukwarmenesse in religion. Preached at Saint Maries in Oxford, the sixt of September, 1640. / By Henry Wilkinson, Batchelour in Divinity of Magdalen Hall. Printed by order from the House of Commons. (1641) by Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.
The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the yeare 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellencey of the worke. (1652) by Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.
The abuse of Gods grace: discovered in the kinds, causes, punishments, symptoms, cures, differences, cautions, and other practical improvements thereof. Proposed as a seasonable check to the wanton libertinisme of the present age. By Nicholas Claget, minister of the Gospel at Edmundsbury in Suffolk, M.A. of Magdalen Hall, Oxon. (1659) by Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.
Three decads of sermons lately preached to the Vniversity at St Mary's Church in Oxford: by Henry Wilkinson D.D. principall of Magdalen Hall. (1660) by Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.
Doctrine of contentment briefly explained, and practically applied in a treatise on 1 Tim. 6. 8. / by Henry Wilkinson ... (1671) by Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.
Characters of a sincere heart and the comforts thereof collected out of the Word of God by Hen. Wilkinson. (1674) by Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.
Counsels and comforts for troubled consciences contained in a letter, lately written to a friend / by Henry Wilkinson ... (1679) by Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.
Two treatises concerning I. God's all-sufficiency, and II. Christ's preciousness Being the substance of some sermons long since preached in the University of Oxford. By Henry Wilkinson, D.D. Then principal of Magdalen-Hall, Oxon. (1681) by Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.