Background
Guyse was born at Hertford in 1680.
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John Guyse
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Education
He was educated for the ministry at the academy of the Review John Payne at Saffron Walden, and began to preach in his twentieth year.
Career
He sometimes assisted William Haworth, then minister of a congregation of dissenters in Hertford, and succeeded him in the charge 27 September 1705. In 1727 he was invited to become first minister of a congregation which had been formed by a secession from Miles Lane, Cannon Street, and had established itself in New Broad Street. Being advised to leave Hertford, as his health was overtaxed, he complied with the request.
From about 1728 he preached the Coward lecture on Fridays at Little Saint Helen"s, and from 1734 the Merchants" lecture on Tuesdays at Pinners" Hall.
Guyse received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Aberdeen in 1733 (Gent Magazine iii 48). In his old age he became lame and blind, but his blindness was thought to have improved his sermons by compelling him to preach without notes, so that it was said that one of his congregation told him she wished he had become blind twenty years earlier.
He himself died on 22 November 1761, and was buried in Bunhill Fields burial ground. John Wesley stated in the Preface to his Notes on the New Testament that he was indebted to Doctor Guyse for many "useful observations".
Membership
He was an active member of the King"s Head Society, which was formed for the purpose of assisting young men to obtain academical training for the ministry.
