Harvey, Christopher

(1597-1663)

   Son of the Rev. Christopher Harvey of Bunbury in Cheshire, he graduated M.A. from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1619-20. He was rector at Whitney, Herefordshire, then at Clifton Upon Dunsmore, Warwickshire, where he died and was buried. The Synagogue is a series of devotional poems appended anonymously to the 1640 edition of George Herbert's Temple and reprinted with most of the later editions. His friend Izaak Walton quoted the Synagogue in the 1655 edition of the Compleat Angler (1653-1655). Some of his other publications: Faction Supplanted: or a Caveat against the ecclesiastical and secular Rebels, 1645. Schola Cordis, or the Heart of it Selfe gone away from God, 1647. The Right Rebel. A Treatise discovering the true Use of the Name by the Nature of Rebellion, 1661. Some of his other poems: "Church Festivals," "Comfort in Extremity," "Forgetting God," "The Covetousness of the Heart," "The Hardness of the Heart," "The Oppression of the Heart," "Travels at Home," "Vows Broken and Rewarded."

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