d.1672. Chaplain to [[Oliver Cromwell]].* Educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he became a fellow there in 1636. During the 1640s he was a chaplain to Lady Brooke, a member of the [[Westminster Assembly]]* of Divines, and an occasional preacher before Parliament. In 1649 he became a regular preacher to the council of state of the Commonwealth, and also acted as a chaplain to the Lord Protector. After the latter's death he moved to Hackney where he taught some students in his home. Following the Restoration of [[Charles II]], he was known as a Nonconformist and preached at conventicles. This period saw also some of his best literary worke.g., A Discourse of the Freedom of the Will, published posthumously in 1675. He was a Calvinistic mystic, influenced by Neoplatonism and by such mystics as [[Jakob Boehme]].*

Peter Sterry