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GOODWIN, DANIEL RAYNES: Protestant Episcopalian; b. at North Berwick, Me., Apr. 12, 1811; d. at Philadelphia Mar. 15, 1890. He was educated at BowdoinCollege (B.A., 1832), and, after a year of study at Andover Theological Seminary and two years in Europe, became professor of modern languages in Bowdoin College in 1835. In that position he completed his theological studies, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1848. From 1853 to 1860 he was president of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., where he was also professor successively of modern languages and mental and moral philosophy. In 1860 he was elected provost of the university of Pennsylvania, a position which he held eight years, resigning to accept the deanship and Holy Trinity professorship of systematic theology in the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity School, both of which he held until his death. He was a deputy to the General Convention from Maine in 1853 and from Pennsylvania after 1862. He wrote Christianity neither Ascetic nor Fanatic (New Haven, 1858); The Christian Ministry (Middletown, Conn., 1880); Southern Slavery in its Present Aspects (Philadelphia, 1864); The Perpetuity of the Sabbath (1867); The New Ritualistic Divinity (1879); Notes on the late Revision of the New Testamertl (New York, 1883); and Christian Eschatology (Philadelphia, 1885).

GOODWIN, JOHN: Arminian clergyman and controversialist; b. in Norfolk c.1594; d. in London, 1665. He was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge (M. A., 1817). He preached for a number of years in his native county, officiated for a time at St. Mary's, Dover, and went to London in 1632, where he became vicar of St. Stephen's in 1633. Ejected from his living in 1645, he maintained an independent church till he was restored by Cromwell in 1649. Under the influence of John Cotton (q.v.) he early sided with the Puritans s,nd was one of the first clergymen to go to the support of parliament on the appeal to arms in 1642, publishing numerous tracts in the interest of the Puritan cause. At the Restoration he, with eighteen others, was incapacitated for any public office, ecclesiastical or civil. In theology be was an Ar- minian, though he always maintained that he was independent of the system of Arminius. His most important works are: Imputatroo,fidei, or a Treatise

of Justification (London, 1842), held in high esteem by John Wesley, and quoted extensively by Richard Watson in his Theological Institutes; The Divine Authority of the Scriptures Asserted (1648), which was commended by Beater; Might and Right Well Met (1648), a justification of the purging of the Parliament in 1648; "TpPwrodGcaa: The Obstructor8 of Justice (1649), a vindication of the sentence against Charles L, a tract publicly burned at the Restoration, together with several by Milton; 'Ago R4rpwaes 'AaoAurpG-ecr, or RedemptiOft RsdseffW (1651) which called forth replies from John Oven, George Kendall, Robert Baillie, and others; WaterDipgring no Firm Footing for Church Communion (1653); Cata-Baptism (1655), the last two works being polemics against Baptists; and the Triumviri (1658), a reply to his critics.

Bibliography: T. Jackson, Life of John l)oodwin, London. 1872; A. b Wood, Atlvence OmnisnrW, ii. 86, 85, 188, 219, 288, 334, ib. 1892; D. Nest. Hist. of the Puritans, ii. 238, 305, iii. 230, 481, iv. 227, ad. of 1822; DNB, zai. 14Ci148 (gives a number of other sources).

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