Charles Simeon
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Charles Simeon was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and biblical commentator who led the evangelical 'Low Church' movement, in reaction to the liturgically and episcopally oriented 'High Church'
Simeon's funeral at King's College, Cambridge on 19 November 1836 from Memoirs of a King's College Chorister (1899)
The Whole Duty of Man
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The Whole Duty of Man is an English 'Protestant' devotional work, first published anonymously in 1658, with an introduction by Henry Hammond. Quasi-Arminian in message, it was both popular and influen
Charles Simeon
…was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. As an undergraduate at King's from 1779, brought up in the high church tradition, he read The Whole Duty of Man and then a work by Thomas Wilson on the sacrament, and taking communion at Easter experienced a Christian conversion. In 1782 he became a fellow of…
Portrait of Hammond by Sylvester Harding