Education
A pupil and follower of William Perkins, he graduated from Christ"s College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts in 1593/4, Master of Arts
A pupil and follower of William Perkins, he graduated from Christ"s College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts in 1593/4, Master of Arts
His commentary on Ephesians is his best known work. The commentary on the first chapter, itself of 400 pages, appeared in 1618. He went to school at Wethersfield, Essex. in 1597, and was elected a Fellow of Christ"s in 1600, a position he lost in 1608 for non-conformity.
Baynes was an important influence on the following generation of English Calvinists, through William Ames, a convert of Perkins, and Richard Sibbes, a convert of Baynes himself.
Ames quoted Baynes: "Beware of a strong head and a cold heart", an idea that would be repeated by Cotton Mather, who was grandson to John Cotton.