Bolton, Robert (2)
Bolton, Robert
a Puritan divine, was born in 1572, and died in 1631. He was especially famous as a reliever of afflicted consciences. He professed on his death-bed that he never in his sermons taught any thing but what he had first sought to work on his own heart. He is the author of A Discourse on Happiness (Lond. 1611, 4to; 6 editions during the author’s lifetime); Instructions relative to afflicted Consciences (6.)1, 4to); Helps to Humiliation (Oxford, 1631, 8vo); On the four last Things (London, 1633, 4to); D vout Prayers (1638, 8vo). -Middleton, Evangelical Biography, 3:18.
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Bolton, Robert (1)
an English clergyman, was born in 1697, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford. He became dean of Carlisle in 1735, and died in 1763. He wrote, The Employment of Time (1750): The Ghost of Ernest (1757): Letters and Tracts on the Choice of Company, etc. (1761): and some other works. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.:
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bolton, Robert (2)
a Protestant Episcopal clergyman of the diocese of New York, first appears in the active ministry in 1870, as missionary of St. John’s Church, Lewisborough, N. Y., of which parish he subsequently became the rector. He died in October, 1877, aged sixty-four years. See Prot. Episc. Almanac, 1878, p. 168.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bolton, Robert (2)
a Puritan divine, was born in 1572, and died in 1631. He was especially famous as a reliever of afflicted consciences. He professed on his death-bed that he never in his sermons taught any thing but what he had first sought to work on his own heart. He is the author of A Discourse on Happiness (Lond. 1611, 4to; 6 editions during the author’s lifetime); Instructions relative to afflicted Consciences (6.)1, 4to); Helps to Humiliation (Oxford, 1631, 8vo); On the four last Things (London, 1633, 4to); D vout Prayers (1638, 8vo). -Middleton, Evangelical Biography, 3:18.