Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lukin, Henry
LUKIN, HENRY (1628–1719), nonconformist divine, born 1 Jan. 1627–8, belonged to the family of Lukin of Mashbury, Essex. He was probably the second son of Henry Lukin, by his second wife Hannah (see Visitation of Essex, Harl. Soc., xiii. 438). He seems to have adopted puritan opinions. At the Restoration he was travelling in France, probably as tutor with Sir William Masham of High Lever, Essex. He was still abroad at the passing of the Act of Uniformity in 1662, and was ‘silenced at a distance.’ According to Davids he was then associated with Lindsell, a parish three miles from Great Dunmow, but is also stated to have held neither benefice nor cure. In 1663, the year of Sir William Masham's death, Lukin returned to England, and resided ‘for many years’ with Mrs. Masham of Matching Hall (apparently Sir William's mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Trevor Lukin), preaching regularly at Matching Green, where a nonconformist chapel, which survived until 1745, was afterwards erected. Through the Masham family Lukin became the friend of the philosopher Locke, and is said to have been the last person with him when he died. Lukin died on 13 Sept. 1719.
Lukin published: 1. ‘The Practice of Godliness, or Brief Rules directing Christians how to keep their hearts,’ &c., 2nd ed. London, 1650, dedicated to Mrs. Elizabeth Masham. 2. ‘The Life of Faith, wherein is shewed the use of Faith in all the Passages of a Christian's Life,’ London, 1660. To this is appended, with separate paging, 3. ‘A Discourse of Right Judgment’ (on John vii. 24). 4. ‘The Chief Interest of Man, or a Discourse of Religion, clearly demonstrating the Equity of the Precepts of the Gospel,’ London, 1665; 3rd ed. 1718. In 1705 a Latin translation of this appeared at Oxford, by Simon Priest, M.A., with the title ‘Lucrum Hominis præcipuum sive de Religione Tractatus.’ 5. ‘An Introduction to the Holy Scripture, containing the several Tropes, Figures, Proprieties of Speech used therein, &c.,’ London, 1669. 6. ‘The Interest of the Spirit in Prayer,’ London, 1674 and 1678, 8vo. 7. An introductory letter, dated 21 Nov. 1690, prefixed to Timothy Rogers's ‘Discourse on Trouble of Mind,’ 1706. 8. ‘A Remedy against Spiritual Troubles,’ 1694, 12mo (Calamy).
[Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Lukin's preface to the reader in the Chief Interest of Man; Harleian Soc., vol. xiii.; Davids's Nonconformity in Essex; Calamy's Account, p. 314, Continuation, p. 492, expanded in Palmer's Nonconf. Mem. ii. 229.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.187
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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