Tuebingen Bible

TUCKNEY, ANTHONY: b. at Kirton, Lincoln shire, Eng., Sept., 1559; d. Feb., 1670. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and took his master's degree in 1622, his B.D. in 1627. He became domestic chaplain to the earl of Lin coln, but, after he was chosen fellow of his college, returned and was a very successful teacher. He then became assistant to John Cotton at Boston, and, after Cotton's departure to New England, his successor. In 1643 he was appoint Led member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines for the county of Lincoln, and was one of the moat active and in fluential members. After the death of Herbert Palmer, he was made chairman of the committee on the catechisms. He had a chief hand in the questions relating to the divine law in the Larger Catechism, and in the construction of the entire Shorter Catechism.

While at London, he was minister of St. Michael Is Querns until 1648. He was made master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1645, vice-chancellor of the university in 1648, master of St. John's College in 1653, and regius professor of divinity of the university. He was one of the comnfissioners at the Savoy, but failed to attend. He was silenced for non-conformity. His controversy with Benjamin Whichcote is important as showing the break of a new era in Whichcote, his pupil, out of the old era in Tuckney, the teacher. These eight letters discuss the use of reason in religion, as well as diffe^enees among Christians, in a calm, dignified, and charitable spirit. They are models of Christian

controversy. Tuekney's Parliament Sermons and other occasional pieces were published during, his lifetime; but his principal works are posthumous: Forty Sermons upon Several Occasions (London, 1676); Prcelectiones theologiece (Amsterdam, 1679).

C. A. Briggs.

Bibliography: DNB, lvii. 286-288 (gives references to scat- tering notices.