GEMMS IDGEMMS-PERSON-000200
NamePeter Gunning
TitleBishop
Gendermale
DenominationChurch of England
Livedb. 1614-01-11 - d. 1684-07-06 (new)
Linked Manuscriptsmanuscript owner - Collection of Peter Gunning's sermons: MS. Rawl. C. 625manuscript owner - Miscellaneous Papers of Francis Turner and Peter Gunning: MS. Rawl. D. 840manuscript owner - Sermons by Peter Gunning: MS. Rawl. C. 628
Linked SermonsBenefits of the Sacr. of ye Eucharist. -- preacher (autograph: no)Credo in Spiritum Sanctem -- preacher (autograph: no)Credo Remissionem Peccatorum -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon 1 on 1 Corinthians 12:11-13 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 1 on 1 Peter 1:2-5 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 1 on 1 Timothy 1:19-20 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 1 on Ephesians 4:3-7 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 1 on John 14:12-24 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 1 on Luke 5:32 and following -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon 1 on Romans 2:4-11 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 1 on Romans 2:6-10 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 2 on 1 Corinthians 12:11-13 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 2 on 1 Peter 1:2-5 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 2 on 1 Timothy 1:19-20 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 2 on Ephesians 4:3-7 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 2 on John 14:12-24 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 2 on Luke 5:32 and following -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon 2 on Romans 2:4-11 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 2 on Romans 2:6-10 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 3 on 1 Corinthians 12:11-13 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 3 on 1 Timothy 1:19-20 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon 4 on 1 Corinthians 12:11-13 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on 1 Chronicles 16:32-37 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on 1 Corinthians 11:23, 29 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on 1 Corinthians 12:11 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on 1 Corinthians 13:1 and following -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on 1 Corinthians 13:8 and following -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on 1 John 4:16-19 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on 1 John 5 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on 1 John 5:3 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on 1 Peter 1:3-6 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on 1 Peter 2:11 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on 1 Peter 4:7 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on 1 Thessalonians 5:19 and Ezekiel 3:22 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on 2 Samuel 12:5-15 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Acts 1:1-10 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Acts 15:20-29 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Acts 2:1 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Acts 2:16 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Colossians 1:12-20 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Deuteronomy 21:5 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Ephesians 1:19-22 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Ephesians 1:21-23 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Ephesians 4:1-4 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Ephesians 4:1-6 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Ephesians 4:8-11 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Ephesians 5:23-32 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Exodus 20 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Exodus 20:12 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Exodus 20:8-11 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Galatians 2:6-11 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Hebrews 11:17-19 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Hebrews 6:1-3 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Isaiah 19:19 and following -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Isaiah 53:5 -- preacher (autograph: uncertain)Sermon on Isaiah 59:19-21 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Jeremiah 31:18-22 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Jeremiah 8:4-8 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on John 10:15-18 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on John 14:12-17 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on John 14:3-10 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on John 16:12-15 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on John 3:3 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on John 6:57-58 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Luke 11:9-13 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Luke 1:26, 38 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Luke 15:1-11 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Luke 16:19-31 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Luke 18:31-34 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Luke 2:34, 38 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Matthew 26-27 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Matthew 26:47 and following -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Matthew 7:7-12 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Philippians 2:6-7 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Philippians 3:17-21 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Psalms 124:7 -- preacher (autograph: uncertain)Sermon on Psalms 16:10 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Psalms 24:3-10 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Psalms 91:11-14 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Psalms 91:11-16 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Revelation 20:11 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Romans 2:5-10 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Romans 2:6-11 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Romans 2:6-11 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Romans 2:6-8 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Romans 8:31-34 -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on Titus 1:10-11 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Titus 2:15 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on Tobit 12:15 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on unidentified text -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermon on unidentified text -- preacher (autograph: no)Sermons on 1 Corinthians 13 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermons on 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermons on Colossians 2:13-15 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermons on Hebrews 3:1-19, 4:1-16 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermons on John 14:18-21 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermons on Revelation 1:4-8 -- preacher (autograph: yes)
Linked ReportsA list of sermons -- preacherSermon reports -- preacherSermons of Peter Gunning -- preacherThe Persons appointed to Preach before the King the insuing Lent -- preacher?
Associated PlacesChichester -- BishopricEly -- BishopricCottesmore -- ParishStoke Bruerne -- ParishClare College -- Place of StudyKing's School -- Place of StudyCambridge University -- PostCanterbury Cathedral -- PostExeter House -- PostSt John's College -- Post
Source of DataRichard Snoddy; Benjamin Durham; David Robinson
Biographical Sources ConsultedODNB (Article: 11748)
Other NoteBorn 11 January 1614 (new) at Hoo, Kent to Peter Gunning, the vicar there, and his wife, Ellen. Educated at King's School Canterbury; matriculated from Clare College, Cambridge, 1629; BA and fellow, 1633; MA, 1635. Remained at Clare until 1644 when he was ejected by parliamentary commissioners. He departed for Oxford, then in royalist hands, where he was appointed chaplain of New College and vicar of Cassington that same year. Proceeded BD 23 July 1646, the day before Oxford surrendered to parliamentary forces. During the interregnum, he served as tutor in the households Lord Hatton and Sir Francis Compton, and chaplain to Sir Robert Shirley, until his death in the Tower of London in 1656. That year, Gunning began officiating at the chapel of Exeter House on the Strand, where he was permitted to conduct prayer book services. These proved so popular that the Exeter House congregation earned the nickname the "Grand Assembly." He engaged in controversy against the Baptists, engaging in two public disputations with Henry Denne at St Clement Danes Church which he published as A Contention for Truth, in Two Public Disputations upon Infant Baptism in 1658. At the Restoration in 1660 he was restored to his fellowship at Clare, created DD, made Lady Margaret professor of divinity, and appointed master of Corpus Christi College the following year. He resigned those positions later that year to become regius chair of divinity and master of St John's College. He also acquired preferments beyond the university: prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral, rector of Cottesmore, Rutland and Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, all in 1660. Appointed a delegate for the episcopalian side at the Savoy Conference in 1661. Left Cambridge in 1670 to become bishop of Chichester in 1670; translated to Ely in 1675. Died 6 July 1684.
GEMMS record createdNovember 11, 2015
GEMMS record last editedJanuary 22, 2019