• Joseph Mede (1586 in Berden – 1639) was an English scholar with a wide range of interests. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he became...
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    agreed that the First Seal opened there upon the death of Christ. Puritan Joseph Mede (1627) associated the opening of the First Seal to year 73, during the...
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  • Apocalyptica (1627). For a recent monograph on Mede's eschatology, see Jeffrey K. Jue, Heaven Upon Earth: Joseph Mede (1586–1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism...
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  • Millenarianism, (Springer, 2000). Jue, Jeffrey K. Heaven Upon Earth: Joseph Mede and the Legacy of Mllenarianism, (Springer, 2006). Kaplan, Jeffrey. Radical...
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    (such as Francis Kett, Edmund Bunny, Thomas Draxe, Thomas Brightman, Joseph Mede, William Perkins, Richard Sibbes, Thomas Goodwin, William Strong, William...
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    Nebulous Earth. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44171-1. Byrne, Joseph Patrick (2008). Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues, Volume...
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    out in Heaven. Historicist view In the traditional historicist view, Joseph Mede (1627) identified the war of Michael the Archangel and the Dragon as...
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  • won by Edward Wray, another gentleman of the king's bedchamber, and Joseph Mede wrote to Sir Martin Stuteville on 13 April 1622 "Mr. Wray is turned out...
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    representative figures of the period were Johannes Piscator, Thomas Brightman, Joseph Mede, Johannes Heinrich Alsted, and John Amos Comenius. Like most English...
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  • (1525-1562), Fausto Sozzini (1539-1604), Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676), Joseph Mede (1640), Jacob Bauthumley (1650), Thomas Hobbes (1651), Lodowick Muggleton...
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  • Elliott to part company with his great forerunner in interpretation, Joseph Mede. For Mede, the angel's little book was a "new and distinct prophecy" concerning...
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    (1516–1590), Joseph Mede (1586–1639), and John Lightfoot (1602–1675), particularly emphasized the eschatological theory of four monarchies. Mede and other...
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  • Irenicism and the Millennium: Mede and the Hartlib Circle, in Jeffrey K. Jue (editor), Heaven Upon Earth: Joseph Mede (1586–1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism...
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  • 85, 86). Mede, Joseph (1627). Clavis Apocalyptica (Digital). Cooper, Robert Bransby, transl. ENG, UK. p. 1. Retrieved Apr 4, 2006. joseph mede The Key...
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    Mather Richard Mather John Maynard (1604–1690) John Mayo (minister) Joseph Mede Walter Mildmay John Milton John More Matthew Newcomen John Norton (Puritan...
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  • toleration of their faith in 1616. Lawyer and MP, Henry Finch and the scholar Joseph Mede both wrote of the benefits of the conversion of the Jews in the 1620s...
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  • identified the figure of Dodanim with the Dardanus of Greek mythology, while Joseph Mede equated him with the Jupiter Dodonaeus who had an oracle at Dodona. Kenneth...
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    distinct focus on the period of the Maccabees (2nd Century BC). Like Joseph Mede (1586-1638), Vitringa believed wholeheartedly that the Millennium was...
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    a strong affinity and deep admiration for the teachings and works of Joseph Mede. Although he never wrote a cohesive body of work on prophecy, Newton's...
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    words for the Messiah of Handel. This book also took up suggestions of Joseph Mede on multiple authorship of the Book of Zechariah. He was killed in the...
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  • (1483–1546) Thomas Brightman (1562–1607) Alexander Forbes (1564–1617) Joseph Mede (1586–1639) Matthew Poole (1624–1679) Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704)...
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    Franciscus Gomarus. Maresius attempted to undermine the appeal to the work of Joseph Mede made by Serrarius. Serrarius was also one of the loudest critics of Lodewijk...
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    Land; he shows, an intimate acquaintance with Grotius, Henry Hammond, Joseph Mede, Spanheim, Sherlock, Lightfoot, and Gregory, with Philo, Josephus, Fuller...
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    posthumously, proved influential. According to William M. Lamont, Brightman and Joseph Mede were the two most important revisionists of the interpretation and eschatology...
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    which the papacy would receive an ultimately fatal blow. Fleming follows Joseph Mede, but set the beginning of Antichrist at 768 AD. Fleming published: The...
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  • day-year principle to understand the Bible. Later, under the leadership of Joseph Rutherford, Jehovah's Witnesses revised this teaching to state that they...
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    in the belly of a fish. On June 23, 1626, scholar and theologian Dr. Joseph Mede (or Mead) of Christ's College, Cambridge, was walking through Cambridge's...
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    contemporaries was Joseph Mede, but it has not been shown that he had personal influence on Milton. It has been argued that Milton later took from Mede's writings...
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    chiliastarum with views on millennarianism. Walaeus had corresponded with Joseph Mede, and his attitude to Cerinthus, Johannes Piscator and Johann Heinrich...
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  • commentators included John Napier (1593), Thomas Brightman (1596), and Joseph Mede (1627). Hugo Grotius was the first Protestant to break away from historiosophy...
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