John Owen (1616-1683) was vice-chancellor of Oxford University and served as adviser and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. Among the most learned and active of the Puritans in seventeenth-century England, he was accomplished both in doctrine and practical theology. Richard Snoddy (PhD, Middlesex University) is an associate research fellow at the London School of Theology. He is the author of The Soteriology of James Ussher: The Act and Object of Saving Faith and James Ussher and A Reformed Episcopal Church: Sermons and Treatises on Ecclesiology. He is the editor of Evangelical Quarterly.