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 Practices of certain Moderate Divines … called Latitudinarians … in a Free Discourse,’ &c., 1670, 8vo (anon.); 1671, 8vo; 1679, 8vo. 2. ‘The Design of Christianity,’ &c., 1671, 8vo; 1676, 8vo; 1699, 8vo; 1760, 8vo (reprinted in vol. vi. of Bishop Watson's ‘Collection of Theological Tracts,’ Cambr. 1785, 8vo). 3. ‘Dirt Wip'd Off: or, a Manifest Discovery of the … Wicked Spirit of one John Bunyan,’ &c., 1672, 4to. 4. ‘Libertas Evangelica … a further pursuance of The Design of Christianity,’ &c., 1680, 8vo. 5. ‘The Resolution of this Case of Conscience, whether the Church of England, symbolising … with … Rome, makes it lawful to hold Communion with the Church of England,’ &c., 1683, 4to. 6. ‘A Defence of the Resolution … in answer to A Modest Examination,’ &c., 1684, 4to. 7. ‘The Great Wickedness … of Slandering,’ &c., 1685, 4to (sermon at St. Giles's, 15 Nov., with vindicatory preface and appendix). 8. ‘An Examination of Cardinal Bellarmine's Fourth Note of the Church,’ &c., 1687, 4to. 9. ‘The Texts which Papists cite … for the proof of … the obscurity of the Holy Scriptures,’ &c., 1687, 4to; 1688, 4to (Nos. 8 and 9 are reprinted in Bishop Gibson's ‘Preservative against Popery,’ 1689, 3 vols. fol., several times reprinted, the latest edition being 1848–1849, 18 vols. 8vo). 10. ‘An Answer to the Paper delivered by Mr. Ashton at his Execution,’ 1690 [i.e. 1691], 4to (anon.). 11. ‘Twenty-eight Propositions, by which the Doctrine of the Trinity is endeavoured to be explained,’ 1693, 4to (anon.). 12. ‘Certain Propositions, by which the Doctrin of the H. Trinity is so explain'd,’ &c., 1694, 4to (anon.; a reissue of No. 11, with a ‘Defence’ against ‘Considerations,’ 1694, 4to, probably by Stephen Nye); 1719, 8vo. 13. ‘A Second Defence of the Propositions … with a Third Defence,’ &c., 1695, 4to (the ‘Second Defence’ is in reply to ‘a Socinian MS.,’ which seems to have been submitted to Fowler by Firmin; the ‘Third Defence’ is in reply to ‘A Letter to the Reverend the Clergy,’ 1694, 4to; [see ]). 14. ‘A Discourse of the Descent of the Man, Christ Jesus, from Heaven,’ &c., 1706, 8vo. 15. ‘Reflections upon the late Examination of the Discourse of the Descent,’ &c., 1706, 8vo. Also fourteen separate sermons (1681–1707) and a charge (1710).

[Calamy's Account, 1713, pp. 90, 95, 330, 494; Continuation, 1727, pp. 128, 506, 639; Own Life, 1830, i. 63, ii. 305; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. 1692, ii. 780, 790, 888; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Tanner), 1721, ii. 1029; Biog. Brit. 1750, iii. 2012 (article by C., i.e. Philip Morant); Glanvill's Saducismus Triumphatus, 1681, ii. 230 sq.; Barrington's Letter of Advice to Protestant Dissenters, 1720, p. 18; Emlyn's Works, 1746, i. 361 sq.; Birch's Life of Tillotson, 1753, p. 294; Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, 1824; Chalmers's Gen. Biog. Dict. 1814, xv. 16 sq.; Cardwell's Hist. of Conferences, 1841, p. 411 sq.; Lathbury's Hist. of Nonjurors, 1845, p. 78 sq.; Macaulay's Hist. of Engl. 1848, ii. 349; Wallace's Antitrinitarian Biog. 1850, i. 280 sq., 323 sq.; Hunt's Rel. Thought in Engl. 1871, ii. 38, &c.; Tulloch's Rational Theol. 1872, ii. 35 sq., 437 sq.; Smith's Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, 1873, p. 190; Evans's Life of Bishop Frampton, 1876, p. 219; information from the Rev. F. Pott, rector of Norhill.]  FOWLER, HENRY (1779–1838), hymn-writer, was born at Yealmpton, Devonshire, 11 Dec. 1779. In early life he followed some trade, but occasionally preached in independent meeting-houses in Devonshire and at Bristol. At length, in October 1813, he ‘received a call’ to Birmingham, where he continued until the end of 1819. Ultimately he settled in London, becoming in July 1820 minister of Gower Street Chapel. He died 16 Dec. 1838, and was buried on Christmas-day morning at the New Bunhill Fields burying-ground at Islington. As ‘a close, searching preacher,’ Fowler had for some years an excellent congregation, and a tolerable one to the close of his life. ‘His discourses were delivered chiefly in short, pithy sentences.’ It has been said that his own frame of mind seemed, in general, rather gloomy; certainly his autobiography, which he called ‘Travels in the Wilderness,’ 8vo, London, 1839, is not cheerful reading. In addition to this and numerous religious tracts and biographies, he wrote ‘Original Hymns, Doctrinal, Practical, and Experimental, with prose reflections,’ 2 vols. 18mo, Birmingham, London, 1818–1824, and edited ‘A Selection of Hymns, by various authors,’ 18mo, London, 1836. His portrait has been engraved by R. Cooper.

[Fowler's Autobiography; John Dixon's Autobiography, pp. 9–10.] 

FOWLER, JOHN (1537–1579), catholic printer and scholar, born at Bristol in 1537, was admitted in 1551 to Winchester School, whence he proceeded to Oxford, and was a fellow of New College in that university from 4 Oct. 1553 to 1559. He was admitted B.A. 23 Feb. 1556–7, and took the degree of M.A. in 1560, though he did not complete it by standing in the comitia. Dr. George Acworth [q. v.], in his reply to Sanders, asserts that Fowler, in the first year of Elizabeth's reign, took the oath renouncing the pope's supremacy, in order that he might retain the valuable living of Wonston, Hampshire, to