Where was John Pearson (bishop) educated from 1623 to 1631?
John Pearson ( bishop ) John Pearson ( 28 February 1613 – 16 July 1686 ) was an English theologian and scholar . Life . He was born at Great Snoring , Norfolk . From Eton College he passed to Queens College , Cambridge , and was elected a scholar of Kings College , Cambridge in April 1632 , and a fellow in 1634 . On taking orders in 1639 he was collated to the Salisbury prebend of Nether-Avon . In 1640 he was appointed chaplain to the lord-keeper Finch , by whom he was presented to the living of Thorington in Suffolk . In the Civil War he acted as chaplain to George Gorings forces in the west . In 1654 he was made weekly preacher at St Clements , Eastcheap , in London . With Peter Gunning he disputed against two Roman Catholics , John Spenser and John Lenthall , on the subject of schism , a one-sided account of which was printed in Paris by one of the Roman Catholic disputants , under the title Scisme Unmaskt ( 1658 ) . Pearson also argued against the Puritan party , and was much interested in Brian Waltons polyglot Bible . In 1659 he published in London his celebrated Exposition of the Creed , dedicated to his parishioners of St Clements , Eastcheap , to whom the substance of the work had been preached several years before . For example , in relation to the Christian cross , he wrote in his commentary on the Apostles Creed that the Greek word stauros originally signified a straight standing Stake , Pale , or Palisador , but that , when other transverse or prominent parts were added in a perfect Cross , it retained still the Original Name , and he declared : The Form then of the Cross on which our Saviour suffered was not a simple , but a compounded , Figure , according to the Custom of the Romans , by whose Procurator he was condemned to die . In which there was not only a straight and erected piece of Wood fixed in the Earth , but also a transverse Beam fastned unto that towards the top thereof . Soon after the Restoration he was presented by Juxon , Bishop of London , to the rectory of St Christopher-le-Stocks ; and in 1660 he was created doctor of divinity at Cambridge , appointed a royal chaplain , prebendary of Ely , archdeacon of Surrey , and Master of Jesus College , Cambridge . In 1661 he was appointed Lady Margarets Professor of Divinity ; and on the first day of the ensuing year he was nominated one of the commissioners for the review of the liturgy in the conference held at the Savoy . There he won the esteem of his opponents and high praise from Richard Baxter . On 14 April 1662 he was made Master of Trinity College , Cambridge . In 1667 he was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society . Upon the death of John Wilkins in 1672 , Pearson was appointed bishop of Chester . He died at Chester on 16 July 1686 , and is buried in Chester Cathedral . Theology . According to Margaret Drabble , Pearson was one of the most erudite theologians of his age . Pearsons Exposition of the Creed , is considered as one of the best production of English dogmatic theology . His soteriological views are discussed among scholars : Nicholas Tyacke have noted that Pearson , maintained the Arminian view of conditional election , in his Lectiones de Deo et Attributis ( 1660 ) . On the other hand , Jake Griesel and Stephen Hampton have observed that Pearson upheld a Calvinist position on the doctrines of election and grace both in his Exposition ( 1659 ) and his Cambridge lectures , and did so explicitly against the Arminians or Remonstrants ( contra Remonstrantes , sive eos quos Arminianos vocant ) . Works . In 1659 his Golden Remains of John Hales of Eton , with a memoir , was published . Also in 1659 was published his Exposition of the Creed in which the lectures which were given at the church of St Clement , Eastcheap , London , were included . ( The notes are a rich mine of patristic learning. ) In 1672 he published at Cambridge Vindiciae epistolarum S . Ignatii , in 4to , in answer to Jean Daillé . His defence of the authenticity of the letters of Ignatius has been confirmed by J . B . Lightfoot and other scholars . In 1682 his Annales cyprianici were published at Oxford , with John Fells edition of Cyprians works . His last work , the Two Dissertations on the Succession and Times of the First Bishops of Rome , formed with the Annales Paulini the principal part of his Opera posthuma , edited by Henry Dodwell in 1688 . See the memoir in Biographia Britannica , and another by Edward Churton , prefixed to the edition of Pearsons Minor Theological Works ( 2 vols. , Oxford , 1844 ) . Churton also edited almost the whole of the theological writings . Notes and references . Sources . - Attribution External links . - The Master of Trinity at Trinity College , Cambridge