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Individual Record for: Thomas Hotchkiss (male)

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!Notes: Per Steven C. Perkins website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scperkins/hperkanc.html. ii. Thomas Hotchkiss. Born, circa 1611, in Dodington, Whitchurch Par., Shropshire, Eng. Died, 1693, in Stanton, near Highworth, Wiltshire , Eng. Occupation: rector. He married Grace unknown, circa 1630, in Eng.
!Notes: Clerk, Recter of Stanton, near Highworth, Co. Wilts. Died at Stanton, 26th Sep 1693.
!Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/66995?docPos=2&anchor=mat ch Hotchkis, Thomas (c.1611-1693), Church of England clergyman, was probably born in Whitchurch, Shropshire, about 1611, the son o f John Hotchkis (1574/5–1666). His mother, whose name is unknown, was still alive in 1655. He was admitted a sizar at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1627 and graduated BA in 1631 and MA in 1634. He may have been married by this time, to Gra ce (d. 1688), and had a son, Joshua, the first of eight children. In 1637 he was appointed rector of Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltshire, although he had no known association with the county. This living he was to hold for the rest of his life, as a pre sbyterian who conformed at the Restoration. He considered himself ‘an obscure countrey-Minister’, which he largely remained, but notice was taken of him by some of the principal Wiltshire presbyterians, including Peter Ince who wrote of him that ‘ he has generally the reputation of a godly man but has been counted one that did in all things keep the orthodox company’ (Calendar, 2.156, 1.128). Hotchkis signed the Concurrent Testimony of the ministers of Wiltshire in 1648, and in the same yea r was nominated as a minister for the triers of the Marlborough classis, one of the four classes established for presbyterian church organization in Wiltshire. - Hotchkis's correspondence with Richard Baxter, some of which survives, reveals his re adiness to gain Baxter's approval for his few writings. In 1654 Hotchkis penned a tract, ‘An exercitation concerning the nature of forgiveness of sin’, which he intended generally as an attack on antinomianism, and specifically as a forthright rep ly to a treatise by William Eyre, curate of St Thomas's, Salisbury, which had defended solefidianism. Hotchkis had circulated the manuscript of ‘Exercitation’ among his neighbouring clergy, including Adoniram Byfield and Humphrey Chambers, but i t received little commendation. Baxter proved more sympathetic when he received it in January 1654, and its publication in the following year probably owed much to his contribution of a prefatory epistle. The tract elicited an attack from Willia m Robertson, and although Hotchkis was quick in writing an answer to Robertson he was probably dissuaded by Baxter from publishing it. Baxter was less supportive of Hotchkis's second part to the ‘Exercitation’ as well as, in 1673, an untitled disc ourse on the sabbath, neither of which was published, although in 1675 Hotchkis found a publisher for Reformation or Ruin, a series of his sermons on Leviticus. - Indeed, the manuscript on the sabbath succeeded only in eliciting Baxter's rebuke fo r its acerbic criticism of Obadiah Grew: ‘And what use is it to tell men that by Law he is not one of the church of England?’ (Calendar, 2.154). Hotchkis defensively replied that he had never knowingly criticized Baxter or any other nonconformis t minister (and indeed that he had been lent Grew's book, with which his argument was theological, over what he saw as its antinomian tendencies, by a nonconformist chaplain). He emphasized his admiration for and engagement with the works of Baxte r, John Howe, and Thomas Manton. He did, however, demur from a passage of Baxter's which seemed to assert ‘the ejected ministers to be in the right, or true Ministers of those parishes, out of which by the present law of our kingdom they are eject ed’ (ibid., 156). - In his only other work, A Discourse Concerning the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness to Us, which appeared in two parts in 1675 and 1678, Hotchkis re-entered a familiar theological controversy, first attacking the solefidia n doctrines elucidated in John Troughton's Lutherus redivicus: of the Protestant Doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone (1677) and John Owen's On Communion with God (1657) and Owen's later Doctrine of Justification by Faith (1677). A synoptic as sessment of the merits of Hotchkis's literary works is provided by Baxter's polite judgement of him as: - "a grave, pious, sober divine, not so quick and sharp as deliberately judicious and solid, not made so much for words as matter, nor to pleas e men's ears with smoothness and eloquence as to inform their judgements by a plain discovery of practical truths." (Calendar, 1.140) - Hotchkis drew up his will on 23 November 1691. His only bequests related to his theological books, the authorsh ip of which reflected his literary and doctrinal tastes. Most of these tomes, including bibles, notes on the Westminster assembly, Thomas Watson's The Art of Divine Contentment, and works by Baxter, Dr Gough, and ‘the most pious and judicious’ Wil liam Allen were left to his son-in-law Thomas Hippesley. Hotchkis was buried at Stanton Fitzwarren on 22 September 1693, having been predeceased by his wife and three of his children. - Henry Lancaster Sources - Calendar of the correspondence of R ichard Baxter, ed. N. H. Keeble and G. F. Nuttall, 2 vols. (1991) · Wood, Ath. Oxon., new edn · Venn, Alum. Cant., 1/2.412 · C. Whiting, Studies in English puritanism (1931) · Diaries and letters of Philip Henry, ed. M. H. Lee (1882) · W. Masters , Notes on the ancient church of St. Leonard, Stanton Fitzwarren (1913) · T. Hotchkis, An exercitation concerning the nature of forgiveness of sin (1655) · PRO, PROB 11/417, fol. 90v · The county of Wilts divided into four classes (c.1650) · paris h register, Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltshire, 1693 [burial] Archives - DWL, letters to R. Baxter - Wealth at death - bequests of books: will, PRO, PROB 11/417, fol. 90v © Oxford University Press 2004–5 All rights reserved: see legal notice Oxford Un iversity Press Henry Lancaster, ‘Hotchkis, Thomas (c.1611-1693)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/66995, accessed 24 Sept 2005] Thomas Hotchkis (c.1611-1693): doi:10.109 3/ref:odnb/66995
!Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/23815?docPos=1&anchor=mat ch Robertson, William (fl. 1651-1685), grammarian and lexicographer, was born in Scotland of unknown parentage.... - Robertson's th eological views were strongly influenced by Scottish presbyterian divines such as David Dickson and Robert Douglas, ‘under whose over-sight I have had both my Book at Schools [sic], and my education in Christianity’ (Iggeret hammashkil, 1655, ‘Epi stle Dedicatory’ to Dickson and others), who believed that knowledge of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament were requisite to the ministry. In Iggeret hammashkil, or, An Admonitory Epistle (1655), his only theological work, he animadverte d on several treatises by Richard Baxter and Thomas Hotchkiss, attacking their views on the ‘Immanent Acts of Gods Knowledge and Will’ through a careful analysis of Hebrew texts. The vehement ‘yonge Scotchman’ (Keeble and Nuttall, 195) received n o answer for his pains. - Page Life Sources - Calendar of the correspondence of Richard Baxter, ed. N. H. Keeble and G. F. Nuttall, 1 (1991) · W. Orme, Bibliotheca biblica (1824) · J. F. Michaud and L. G. Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne e t moderne, new edn, 36 (1860?), vol. 36, p. 144 · Fortsetzung und Ergänzungen zu Christian Gottlieb Jöchers allgemeinem Gelehrten-Lexicon, ed. J. C. Adelung and H. W. Rotermund, 7, ed. O. Günther (Leipzig, 1897); repr. (Hildesheim, 1961), col. 14 0 · Allibone, Dict., 2.1824 · DNB · Journal des Sçavans pour l'année M. DC. LXXXV [Paris] (1685), 331 © Oxford University Press 2004–5 All rights reserved: see legal notice Page Life, ‘Robertson, William (fl. 1651-1685)’, Oxford Dictionary of Nat ional Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23815, accessed 24 Sept 2005] William Robertson (fl. 1651-1685): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23815

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