Background
Newman was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, in 1602, son of Richard Newman.
Newman was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, in 1602, son of Richard Newman.
Trinity College.
He was prosecuted for nonconformity and emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony, probably in 1636. After preaching nearly two years at Dorchester, he became pastor of the church at Weymouth, where he remained until 1643. The following year he removed with part of his church to Seconet, in Plymouth Colony.
There they founded the town of Rehoboth, which then embraced what is now Seekonk, Massachusetts and Rumford, Rhode Island.
He died in Rehoboth on July 5, 1663. Newman"s famous Concordance was the third in English ever published and greatly superior to its two predecessors.
The first edition was published in London in 1643, just before Newman"s removal from Weymouth to Rehoboth. At Rehoboth, he revised and greatly improved it, using in the evening (according to Ezra Stiles, a President of Yale) pine knots instead of candles.
The second edition was published at Cambridge in 1662 and the concordance was usually known after that as the Cambridge Concordance.
The concordance was reprinted at least as late as 1889, almost 250 years after it was first published. A large and compleat concordance to the Bible in English according to the last translation: first collected by Clement Cotton and now much enlarged and amended for the good both of schollars and others, far exceeding the most perfect that ever was extant in our language, both in ground-work and building. London: Printed for Thomas Downes and James Young, 1643.
Third Printing ("And now this second impression corrected and amended in many things formerly omitted for the good both of scholars and others for exceeding the most perfect that ever was extant in our language, both in ground-work and building").
London: Printed for Thomas Downes and Andrew Crook, 1650. A concordance to the Holy Scriptures: with the various readings both in text and margin: in a more exact method then Sic (Latin)| sic hath hitherto been extant.
2nd educated Cambridge, 1662. A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures: with the Various Readings both of Text and Margin, in a More Exact Method then Sic (Latin)| sic hath Hitherto been Extant.
2nd educated (subsequent printing).
Cambridge, 1672. A concordance to the Holy Scriptures: with the various readings both of text and margin: in a more exact method than hath hitherto been extant. 3rd educated Cambridge, 1682.
A concordance to the Holy Scriptures: together with the books of the Apocrypha with the various readings both of text and margin: in a more exact method then Sic (Latin)| sic hath hitherto been extant.
4th educated Cambridge, 1698. 5th educated London, 1720. Reprint of 2nd educated
London: John F Shaw & Company, 1889.