Isaac Chauncy
Isaac Chauncy (1632-1712) was an English High-Calvinist Non-conformist Preacher. In 1659, he received the rectory of Woodborough, Wiltshire; in 1662, he was appointed pastor of the congregational church meeting at Andover, Hampshire; in 1669, he was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians; in 1687, he was appointed pastor of the independent church meeting at Bury Street, St. Mary Axe; thereafter he served as tutor for the Dissenting Academy in London.
Chauncy was an early eighteenth century Hyper-Calvinist, subscribing to two permanent and perpetual covenants—works, between God and Adam; grace, between the Persons of the Godhead. He wrote in “Neonomianism Unmasked” (1692): “As for your notion, that your Covenant of Redemption is distinct from the Covenant of Grace, I deny it, and shall hereafter make it appear, that the Covenant of Grace and Redemption is one and the same Covenant.” It is around this covenantal framework the issues of duty-faith and the free offer are contended against by Hyper-Calvinists.—J Smith
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The Life And Ministry Of Isaac Chauncy
Isaac Chauncy (1632-1712), dissenting minister, eldest son of Charles Chauncy [q. v.], was born on 23 Aug. and baptised at Ware, Hertfordshire, on 30 Aug. 1632. He went as a child to New England with his father, and was entered at Harvard in 1651, where he studied both theology and medicine, but, coming to England, completed his education at Oxford, where he proceeded M.A. Before 1660 he was given the rectory of Woodborough, Wiltshire, where he resided until ejected by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. Thereupon he removed to Andover, Hampshire, where he took charge of a congregational church. On 5 July 1669 he was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians. ‘Having,’ says Calamy, ‘quitted Andover some time after the recalling of…
