Barlow, Thomas (2)
Barlow, Thomas
Bishop of Lincoln, born in Westmoreland in 1607; educated at Appleby, and removed thence to Queen’s College, Oxford. Although no favorer of the Parliamentary party, he retained his fellowship through the Commonwealth, and in 1654 was appointed keeper of the Bodleian. Afterward he was made provost of his college, Lady-Margaret professor, and in 1675 Bishop of Lincoln, being then nearly seventy years of age. He never removed to his see. He died in 1691, on the 8th of October. He was of the Calvinistic school of theology, and left, among other writings, the following, viz.
(1.) The Case of Toleration in Matters of Religion (1660);
(2.) The Original of Sinecures (1676);
(3.) Popery, or the Principles and Opinions of the Church of Rome;
(4.) Brutum fulmen, or the Bull of Pope Pius V, etc. (Lond. 1681, 4to). After his death, Sir Peter Pett published a volume of Cases of Conscience, resolved by Barlow, and another volume of Genuine Remains (Lond. 1693, 8vo).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Barlow, Thomas (2)
a preacher in the United Methodist Free Church, was born of Wesleyan parents at Darlington, Devonshire, Aug. 7, 1810. He was converted to God in his youth, and at seventeen began to preach the Gospel. His love of freedom induced him in 1835, during the Warrenite disputes, to leave the Wesleyans, and join the Association Methodists, and again in 1851, when the reform movement began, he identified himself with it and entered the ministry. He labored hard for nineteen years, until 1870, when he was chosen book steward to the United Methodist Free Churches, in which office he served with fidelity till his health failed in 1874, when he became a supernumerary, and resided at the East End of London, preaching: as he had strength to the end of life. He died June 29, 1880, and was interred in Ilford Cemetery. He was courteous, conscientious, devout, intelligent. See Minutes of the Assembly.