Abbot, Robert
D.D., Bishop of Salisbury, was born at Guildford, in Surrey, in 1560, took the degrees of M.A. in 1582, and that of D.D. in 1597. He won the good opinion of James I by a work in confutation of Bellarmine and Suarez, in defense of the royal authority, and was soon after made Master of Baliol College, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford. As Vice-Chancellor of the University, he favored the Calvinistic theology, and opposed Laud to the utmost. In 1615 he was appointed by his brother (then Archbishop of Canterbury) to the bishopric of Salisbury, which, however, he enjoyed but a short time, and died on the 2d of March, 1617. His works are:
1. Mirror of Popish Subtilties (Lond. 1594, 4to);
2. Antichristi Demonstratio, contra Fabulas Pontificias, etc. (1603, 4to);
3. Defence of the Reformed Catholic of W. Perkins against Dr. W. Bishop (1606, 1609, 4to);
4. The Old Way, a Sermon (1610, 4to);
5. The true Ancient Roman Catholic (1611, 4to);
6. Antilogia (against the Apology of the Jesuit Endemon, for Henry Garnett, 1613, 4to);
7. De Gratia et Perseverantia Sanctorum (1618, 4to);
8. De amissione et intercessione Justification; et Gratioe, (1618, 4to);
9. De Suprema Potestate Regia: (161 9. 4to). He left in MS. a Latin commentary on Romans which is now in the Bodleian Library. Middleton, Eccl. Biog.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Abbot, Robert (2)
a noted English Puritan divine, but not a Nonconformist, was born about 1589. He was educated at Cambridge, where he proceeded A.M., and was afterwards incorporated at Oxford. In 1616 he was presented to the vicarage of Cranbrook, Kent, by archbishop George Abbot. His ministry at this place was very effective; “his parishioners were as his own sons and daughters to him; and by day and by night he thought and felt, wept and prayed, for them and with them.” In 1643 he was transferred to the living of Southwick, Hants; and subsequently he became pastor of St. Augustine. London, where he continued to a good old age. He disappears from history some time previous to 1662. He wrote several works, which are distinguished for their terseness and variety. The principal of these are, A Hand of Fellowship to Helpe Keepe Out Sinne and Antichrist (1623): Bee Thankfull London and her Sisters (1626): Triall of our Church- forsakers (1639). See Brook, Puritans, 3, 182, 183; Wood (Bliss’s), Athenoe Oxonienses.