Dod, John (2)
Dod, John
an eminent Puritan divine, was born at Shotledge, Cheshire, England, in 1547, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became fellow, and resided for sixteen years. At college he acquired great reputation both as a disputant and a preacher. His first settlement was at Hanwell, Oxfordshire, in 1581, where he remained twenty years, and was very popular and useful. He was suspended for non-conformity by Dr. Bridges, bishop of Oxford, and went to Cannons’ Ashby, in Northamptonshire, where he was again silenced on a complaint to king James by bishop Neale. After the death of king James he gained liberty to resume his public labors, which he did with unremitted faithfulness and success till his death in August, 1645, at Fawesley, Northamptonshire, a living to which he was presented in 1624. Mr. Dod was an excellent scholar, especially in Hebrew. He published An Exposition of the Proverbs (London, 1608, 4to): Sermons on Lamentations in (London, 1608, 4to): A Remedy against Contentions (Lond. 1609, 4to); and, together with Robert Cleaver, An Exposition of the Ten Commandments, with a Catechism (Lond. 1632, 4to).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Dod, John (2)
an English divine, was born at Shotledge, Cheshire, in 1547; was bred in Jesus College, Cambridge; by nature a witty, by industry a learned, by grace a godly, divine; successively minister of Hanwell, in Oxford, Fenny Compton, in Warwick, Canons Ashby and Fawsley, in Northamptonshire, though for a time silenced in each of them, and died, after a holy life in troublesome times, in 1645. When his mouth was shut by the authorities he instructed as much as before by his holy demeanor and pious discourse. His chief production was an Exposition of the Ten Commandments (Lond. 1606), whence he is often styled the Decalogist. See Fuller, Worthies of England (ed. Nuttall), 1:278; Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.