Dudley Fenner

Background

He was born in Kent and educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Career

He helped popularise Ramist logic in the English language. Fenner was also one of the first theologians to use the term "covenant of works" to describe God"s relationship with Adam in the Book of Genesis. Foreign some months he seems to have assisted the vicar of Cranbrook, Kent, but it is doubtful whether he received ordination.

He next followed Cartwright to Antwerp, and, having received ordination according to rite of the Reformed church, assisted Cartwright for several years in preaching to the English congregation there.

In the same year, however, he was one of seventeen Kentish ministers suspended for refusing to sign an acknowledgement of the Queen"s supremacy and of the authority of the Prayer Book and articles He was imprisoned for a time, but eventually regained his liberty and spent the remainder of his life as chaplain in the Reformed church at Middelburg.

Achievements

• A list of his authentic works is given in Cooper's Athenae Canta- brigienses (Cambridge, 1858 - 1861). They rank among the best expositions of the principles of puritanism.