Life

He was son of Christopher Jeanes of Kingston, Somerset, born at Allansay. He became in 1626 a commoner of New Inn Hall, Oxford, where, according to Anthony Wood

Anthony Wood

Anthony Wood or Anthony à Wood was an English antiquary.-Early life:Anthony Wood was the fourth son of Thomas Wood , BCL of Oxford, where Anthony was born...

, he was known for disputation. He graduated B.A. 3 June 1630, and proceeded M.A. 14 May 1633; he was incorporated at Cambridge in 1632, and later moved to Hart Hall, Oxford.

On 5 August 1635 he was presented by Sir John Windham to the rectory of Beer Crocombe and Capland in Somerset, and he obtained soon afterwards the vicarage of Kingston. During the early part of the First English Civil War

First English Civil War

The First English Civil War began the series of three wars known as the English Civil War . "The English Civil War" was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations that took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651, and includes the Second English Civil War and...

 he and his family took refuge at Chichester

Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, South-East England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Roman past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings...

; later he received the rectory of Chedzoy

Chedzoy

Chedzoy is a civil parish village east of Bridgwater in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England.-History:The village is at the western end of King's Sedgemoor and lies on an 'island' of Burtle marine sands, close to King's Sedgemoor Drain. The area was settled possibly in the Mesolithic...

, near Bridgwater

Bridgwater

Bridgwater is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is the administrative centre of the Sedgemoor district, and a major industrial centre. Bridgwater is located on the major communication routes through South West England...

. Here he instructed private pupils, among them being George Bull

George Bull

George Bull was an English theologian and Bishop of St David's.-Life:He was born, 25 March 1634, in the parish of St. Cuthbert, Wells, and educated in the grammar school at Wells, and then at Blundell's School in Tiverton under Samuel Butler. Before he was fourteen years old he went into...

. Jeanes died at Wells

Wells

Wells is a cathedral city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England, on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. Although the population recorded in the 2001 census is 10,406, it has had city status since 1205...

 in August 1662, and was buried in the cathedral.

Works

Jeanes wrote:

• 'Treatise concerning a Christian's Careful Abstinence from all Appearance of Evil . . .' Oxford, 1640; another edition 1660.
• 'The Worke of Heaven upon Earthe . . .' an expanded sermon, London, 1649.
• 'The Want of Church Government no warrant for a totall omission of the Lord's Supper,' London, 1650, dedicated to Colonel John Pyne
  John Pyne
  John Pyne was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War, but fell out with Oliver Cromwell during the Interregnum...
  
  ; another edition, with a reply to Francis Fulwood, Oxford, 1653.
• 'A Vindication of Dr. Twisse from the Exceptions of Mr. John Goodwin in his Redemption Redeemed,' Oxford, 1653. Appended to William Twisse
  William Twisse
  William Twisse was a prominent English clergyman and theologian. He became Prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly, putting him at the head of the churchmen of the Commonwealth. He was described by a Scottish member, Robert Baillie, as “very good, beloved of all, and highlie esteemed; but merelie...
  
  's 'Riches of God's Love . . . consistent with His Absolute Hatred ... of the Vessels of Wrath.'
• 'A Mixture of Scholasticall Divinity with Practicall,' Oxford, 1656, in several parts. This work Henry Hammond
  Henry Hammond
  Henry Hammond was an English churchman.-Early life:He was born at Chertsey in Surrey on 18 August 1605, the youngest son of John Hammond, physician. He was educated at Eton College, and from age 13 at Magdalen College, Oxford, becoming demy or scholar in 1619. On 11 December 1622 he graduated B.A....
  
   criticised in his 'Ἐκτενέστερον,' to which Jeanes replied in 1657, while Hammond replied again in 1657, and was supported by William Creed
  William Creed
  William Creed was an English clergyman and academic, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1660.-Life:The son of John Creed, he was a native of Reading, Berkshire. He was elected a scholar of St. John's College, Oxford, in 1631, proceeded B.A., was elected a fellow of his college, commenced...
  
   in his 'Refuter Refuted,' 1659. Jeanes replied to Hammond a second time in 1660, and to Creed in 1661.
• 'Treatise concerning the Indifferency of Human Actions,' Oxford, 1659.
• 'A Second Part of the Mixture of Scholastical Divinity,' Oxford, 1660, printed with the second reply to Hammond and 'Letters on Original Sin.'
• 'Of Original Righteousness, and its Contrary Concupiscence,' Oxford, 1660, directed against Jeremy Taylor
  Jeremy Taylor
  Jeremy Taylor was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing...
  
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• 'Letters between Jeanes and Jeremy Taylor on the subject of Original Sin,' Oxford, 1660.

Jeanes has been wrongly supposed to have been the author of the reply to Milton's Eikonoklastes

Eikonoklastes

Eikonoklastes is a book by John Milton, published October 1649. In it he provides a justification for the execution of Charles I, which had taken place on 30 January 1649. The book's title is taken from the Greek, and means "iconoclast" or "breaker of the icon", and refers to Eikon Basilike, a...

(1651), entitled The Image Unbroken, by Joseph Jane

Joseph Jane

-Life:He was born into an old family which had long been influential in Liskeard, Cornwall. His father was mayor there in 1621, and 1625 he was himself mayor of Liskeard, and in 1640 was again returned to represent the borough in the Long Parliament....

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