Dudley Fenner

Fenner was also one of the first theologians to use the term "covenant of works" to describe God's relationship with Adam in the Book of Genesis.

[2] There he became an adherent of Thomas Cartwright, and publicly expounded his presbyterian views, with the result that he was obliged to leave Cambridge without taking his degree.

In the same year, however, he was one of seventeen Kentish ministers suspended for refusing to sign an acknowledgement of the Queen's supremacy and of the authority of the Prayer Book and articles.

He was imprisoned for a time, but eventually regained his liberty and spent the remainder of his life as chaplain in the Reformed church at Middelburg.

[1] Fenner and his wife, Joan, had four daughters:[3] A list of his authentic works is given in Cooper's Athenae Cantabrigienses (Cambridge, 1858-1861).

Title page , An Answere unto the Confutation of John Nichols his Recantation, in all pointes of any weight conteyned in the same especially in the matters of doctrine, of purgatorie, images, the Popes honor, and the question of the church , by Dudley Fenner, printed by John Wolfe , London , 1583