Samuel Fisher was an English Puritan

Puritan

The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England...

 clergyman and ejected

Great Ejection

The Great Ejection followed the Act of Uniformity 1662 in England. Two thousand Puritan ministers left their positions as Church of England clergy, following the changes after the restoration to power of Charles II....

 minister.

Life

Fisher was the son of Thomas Fisher of Stratford-on-Avon. He was born in 1617, and educated at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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, matriculating at Queen's College, Oxford in 1634, and graduating at Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College, Oxford

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 - B.A. 15 December 1636, M.A. 18 June 1640. He took holy orders

Holy Orders

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, and officiated at St. Bride's, London

London

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, at Withington, Shropshire

Shropshire

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, and at Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury

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, where he was curate to Thomas Blake. He afterwards held the rectory of Thornton-in-the-Moors, Cheshire

Cheshire

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, from which he was ejected at the Restoration. He spent the rest of his life at Birmingham, where he died, 'leaving the character of an ancient divine, an able preacher, and a godly life.'

Work

He published:

• An Antidote against the Fear of Death; being meditations in a time and place of great mortality (the time, Wood informs us, being July and August 1650, the place Shrewsbury).
• A Love Token for Mourners, teaching spiritual dumbness and submission under God's smarting rod, in two funeral sermons, London, 1655.
• A Fast sermon, preached 30 January 1692-3.