John Heylyn

John Heylyn (1685 – 11 August 1759) was an Anglican divine, who had a major influence on religious thought in eighteenth century England. Because of his interest in mysticism he was known as the Mystic Doctor. Quotes When a country is visited with pestilence, the magistrate exerts a very arbitrary authority. The diseased, and even the whole who are so unfortunate as to have cohabited with them, are shut up and made a sacrifice to the public safety. A treatment severe indeed, but necessary. We judge it better that some, though innocent, persons should suffer, than the whole community run the hazard of infection. And it would be a very unaccountable tenderness that should spare the guilty in a case where the evil is incomparably greater. A Sermon Preached to the Societies for Reformation of Manners, at St. Mary-le-Bow, on Wednesday January the 8th, 1728 (London, 1729), p. 15 External links Category:Clergy from England Category:Anglicans from the United Kingdom Category:Mystics Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:1685 births Category:1759 deaths