Cole, Thomas (3)
Cole, Thomas
an English Nonconformist, was educated at Westminster School, and at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1656 he became principal of St. Mary’s Hall, where he was tutor to John Locke. In 1660 he was ejected from Oxford by the king’s commissioners for nonconformity, and opened an academy at Nettle. head, Oxfordshire. Thence he removed to London, where he became pastor of a large congregation, and one of the lecturers at Pinner’s Hall. He was a strong opponent of the Neonomian (q.v.) doctrine. He died in September, 1697. Among his writings are, A Discourse on Regeneration, Faith, and Repentance, Lond. 1689, 8vo; A Discourse of the Christian Religion; Imputed Righteousness for Justification incomprehensible by human Reason. Calamy, Nonconfornmist’s Memorial, 1:196.
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Cole, Thomas (1)
an English divine was born in 1726. He was educated at Queen’s College, Cambridge where he took the degree of LL.B. in 1751. At the time of his death, June 6, 1796, he was vicar of Dulverton. He was the author of The Arbour, or, The Rurai Philosopher (1756, 4to): Discourses on Luxury, Infidelity, and Enthusiasm (1760, 12mo): The Life of Hubert, a narrative, descriptive, and didactic poem (1795, 8vo). See The (Lond.) Annual Register, 1796, page 62.
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Cole, Thomas (2)
a celebrated painter, was born at Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England, February 1, 1801. His parents, who had previously lived in America, returned in 1819, and settled in Philadelphia, where young Cole aapplied himself to wood-engraving. and music. In 1820 he began portrait-painting in Steubenville, and afterwards took up historical painting. In 1825 he removed to New York city, and laid the foundation of his fame by painting scenes among the Catskills. His finest pictures are the four called The Voyage of Life, which have been engraved. He died at Catskill, N.Y., February 11, 1847. A Memoir of him has been written by Reverend L.L. Noble (N.Y. 1855).
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Cole, Thomas (3)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in Delaware. He spent over two years (1824, 1825) in Princeton Theological Seminary, and was then ordained by the Presbytery of Gallipolis, Ohio. He was in 1830 and 1831 stated supply for a church in New Richmond; labored as missionary in Ohio in 1832 and 1833; was pastor in Augusta, Kentucky, in 1836, for a Congregational Church; agent for the American Bible Society, St. Louis, Missouri, from 1855 until his death, July 18, 1870. See Gen. Cat. of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1881, page 49.