John Maynard (of Mayfield)
1600–1665
Sussex preacher; member of the committee on baptism.
Biography
Of Magdalen Hall Oxford under William Pemble, then Mayfield in Sussex from 1623 — a forty-year ministry in one of the more substantial East Sussex livings. Distinct from the parliamentary lawyer John Maynard. A regular Assembly attender and a member of the committee on baptism, he preached the parliamentary fast sermon A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons (1646). Ejected from Mayfield in 1662 under the Act of Uniformity; died in 1665.
Principal works
- The Beauty and Order of the Creation (1668)
- A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons (1646)
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.