Anthony Tuckney
1599–1670
Master of Emmanuel and St John’s; principal drafter of the Larger and Shorter Catechisms.
Biography
Cambridge-trained Lincolnshire minister, Tuckney succeeded Holdsworth as Master of Emmanuel (1645) and later of St John's (1653). At the Assembly he chaired the catechetical committee that produced both Catechisms and was the working theologian behind their precision and economy. His 1651 exchange with Benjamin Whichcote — the Tuckney/Whichcote correspondence — is one of the seventeenth century's most revealing documents on the relations of Reformed orthodoxy and emergent Cambridge Platonism.
Principal works
- None Such Precepts (1647)
- Forty Sermons Upon Several Occasions (1676)
English Presbyterian divine
The great majority of the sitting members were English parish ministers of Presbyterian conviction. They formed the drafting core of the Assembly, manning its three standing committees and supplying most of the text of the Confession, the two Catechisms, and the Directory for Public Worship.
Party in 21 cruxes
- The Canon and the Apocrypha
- Good and Necessary Consequence
- The Order of the Decrees
- The Decree of Reprobation
- The Covenant of Redemption
- The Mosaic Covenant
- The Children of Believers and the Sign of the Covenant
- The Descent into Hell
- Justification and the Antinomian Crisis
- Assurance: Of the Essence of Saving Faith?
- The Perseverance of the Saints
- The Third Use of the Moral Law
- The Strict Sabbath
- The Tripartite Division of the Law
- The Grand Debate over Polity
- The Regulative Principle of Worship
- Sacramental Efficacy: Signs and Seals
- Lawful Oaths
- Grounds of Divorce: Adultery and Wilful Desertion
- The Conscious Intermediate State
- The Final Judgment and the Last Things