Bates, William
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BATES, WILLIAM: English Presbyterian; b. at
London Nov., 1625; d. at Hackney July 14, 1699.
He was graduated at Cambridge 1647, and was
vicar of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, London, until
1662, when he lost the benefice for non-conformity;
he was one of the commissioners to the Savoy Conference (q.v.)
in 1661 and represented the nonconformists on other
occasions in negotiations with the Churchmen; was chaplain to Charles II
and had influence in high places both under Charles
and his successors. He is said to have been a
polished preacher and a sound scholar. Perhaps
the best known of his works is The Harmony of
the Divine Attributes in the Contrivance and Accomplishment of
Man's Redemption (2d ed., London, 1675). A collected edition of
his works, with memoir by W. Farmer, was published in four volumes
at London in 1815.
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