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Edmund Staunton

1600–1671

President of Corpus Christi Oxford; one of the parliamentary visitors of Oxford.

Biography

Of Wadham then Corpus Christi College Oxford, Staunton was vicar of Kingston-upon-Thames from 1632 and one of the more rigorously Calvinist Surrey ministers. He served on the parliamentary visitation of Oxford (1647-48), one of the ministers tasked with sequestering royalist heads of house, and was rewarded with the Presidency of Corpus Christi College Oxford from 1648 — a conformist-turned-Presbyterian governor of one of the most learned Oxford colleges. He preached the fast sermon Phinehas' Zeale in Execution of Iudgement (1645) before the Long Parliament. Ejected from the Presidency in 1660, he spent his last decade in pastoral retirement at Bovingdon and Rickmansworth, where he died in 1671.

Principal works

Role at the Assembly

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.

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I. ✦ Scripture
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II. ✠ God & Decree
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III. ⊕ Covenant
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IV. ☧ Christology
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V. ✚ Soteriology
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VI. ⚖ Law & Sanctification
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VII. ☩ Ecclesiology & Worship
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VIII. ⌛ Civil & Last Things
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