Godwin, Thomas, D.D.
Godwin, Thomas, D.D
an English prelate, was born at Oakingham, in Berkshire, in 1517, and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1565 he was made dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and had also a prebend in the Cathedral of Lincoln. In 1566 he was promoted to the deanery of Canterbury. In 1576 he was one of the ecclesiastical commissioners. He was consecrated bishop of Bath and Wells in September, 1584. He died November 19, 1590. Among the Parker MSS. in Benedict Church, Cambridge, is a sermon which he preached before the queen at .Greenwich, in 1566, concerning the authority of the councils and fathers.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Godwin, Thomas, D.D.
an English theologian, was born in Somersetshire in 1587. He entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1602, became head master of the free school of Abingdon in 1609, and afterwards rector of Brightwell, Berkshire. He died in 1643, leaving a great reputation both as a teacher and as an author. He wrote Moses and Aaron; or the civil and ecclesiastical Rites used by the ancient Hebrews, observed and at large opened for the clearing of many obscure Texts throughout the whole Scripture, etc. (London, 1685, 4to, 12th ed.); translated into Latin, Moses et Aaron, cum Hottingeri Notis (Ultraj. 1690; often reprinted): Romanae historiae Anthologia, an English Exposition of the Roman Antiquities (Lond. 1686, 4to, 16th ed.): Dissertatio de theocratia Israelitarum: Three Arguments to prove Election upon Foresight by Faith, a work which brought him into a controversy with the ultra-Calvinist, Dr. Twiss (q.v.). See Horne, Bibliographical Appendix; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. 1:1279; Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, 1:682.