Education
He graduated with an Master of Arts
He graduated with an Master of Arts
From Magdalen Hall, Oxford in 1622. He spent the years 1633 to 1640 in exile, in Holland. With support from Lord Kimbolton he had influential connections with the Parliamentary Army, and also had the living of Kimbolton, then in Huntingdonshire.
He acted as an adviser to Oliver Cromwell on matters around regulation of the Church.
According to Ivan Roots, the eventual ecclesiastical settlement under the Protectorate followed closely proposals from 1652, outlined by Nye with John Owen and others He later had the parish of Acton.
He was employed by Parliament, on a mission to the imprisoned Charles I, and as a trier of preachers. He is mentioned in Hudibras.
The presented the text to parliament on 3 January 1644.
This tactic meant they could avoid having their views debated at the Westminster Assembly, where they would have been readily outnumbered, and perhaps outvoted. In the Whitehall Debates of 1648, however, he supported Henry Ireton"s view that toleration should be limited by the state. He was one of those agitating successfully against the Racovian Catechism.
He was an opponent of astrology.
