John Cosin was an English churchman, liturgical scholar, royalist exile, and later Bishop of Durham.
Setting: Church of England; Caroline Anglican rather than confessional Presbyterian or Baptist Reformed.
John Cosin was an English churchman, liturgical scholar, royalist exile, and later Bishop of Durham. His long Scholastical History of the Canon assembled biblical, Jewish, patristic, conciliar, and later evidence concerning the books received as Scripture.
Cosin belongs in the Research Center because his canon history preserves a large chain of testimony and requires careful verification of citations. His high-church liturgical commitments and Anglican setting should be stated plainly rather than absorbed into a generic Reformed category.
Bibliological positions
The canon is historically witnessed through the church without being manufactured by an ecclesiastical decree. Patristic and conciliar evidence serves the identification and history of reception.
Qualifications and disputes
Cosin’s theological tradition differs materially from Westminster Presbyterianism and the Second London Baptist Confession. His historical citations require checking against primary editions.
His use of deuterocanonical terminology and the exact force of individual patristic witnesses can be read differently.
Sources
- Public-domain DNB entry — Biographical orientation
- PRDL search — John Cosin — Digital works catalogue
Principal works
- A Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture (1657); legacy
WRK-0024; WRK; Ready after permanent-ID allocation and duplicate scan
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
Relationship labels distinguish contact, refutation, later reporting, accusation, textual agreement, compatibility, and causation. A connection does not silently inherit the force of another connection.
Interaction chart
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- Record
- PER-3014
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-profile
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 2026-07-22 · Exact Day
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis; cited sources retain their stated rights.
- Known limitations
- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
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Records that cite or connect here
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Corrections and evidence submissions
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Chris Thomas, “John Cosin,” PER-3014, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas
- — Chris Thomas