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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Morning_Exercises > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Morning_Exercises.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Exercises > Source revision: 1336403547 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{about|the English Puritan religious observance|common activities in the morning|Morning#Activities{{!}}Morning activities}} {{italic title}} '''''Morning Exercises''''' refers to a religious observance by [Puritans](/source/Puritans) in [London](/source/London) which started at the beginning of the [English Civil War](/source/English_Civil_War). ==Origins== As most of the citizens of London had either a near relation or friend in the army of the [Earl of Essex](/source/Robert_Devereux%2C_3rd_Earl_of_Essex), clergymen were getting overwhelmed with requests to include prayers for these soldiers in their Sunday services. So a group of them agreed to set aside an hour at 7 am, every morning, with half an hour for prayer and half an hour for a broader exhortation of the population. It was started by [Thomas Case](/source/Thomas_Case) the [Presbyterian](/source/Presbyterian) minister at [St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street](/source/St._Mary_Magdalen%2C_Milk_Street){{cite book|last=Mullet|first=Michael|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=4855&back=}} and continued there for a month. The exercises were then taken up by other churches across the [City of London](/source/City_of_London). Shortly after [Westminster Abbey](/source/Westminster_Abbey) also started to host religious lectures between 6 - 8am, not only for local residents, but also for [Members of Parliament](/source/Members_of_Parliament). The preachers here included [Edmund Staunton](/source/Edmund_Staunton), [Philip Nye](/source/Philip_Nye), [Stephen Marshall](/source/Stephen_Marshall_(English_clergyman)), [Herbert Palmer](/source/Herbert_Palmer_(Puritan)), [Charles Herle](/source/Charles_Herle), [Jeremiah Whitaker](/source/Jeremiah_Whitaker) and [Thomas Hill](/source/Thomas_Hill_(Cambridge)).{{cite book|last=Neal|first=Daniel| author-link =Daniel Neal|title=History of the Puritans|url=https://archive.org/details/nealshistorypur00toulgoog|year=1811|location=London}} ==At Cripplegate== After the Civil War the Morning Exercises were continued, with many collected by [Samuel Annesley](/source/Samuel_Annesley) being subsequently published in six volumes. ==Preachers published by Annesley== The following list of 75 was published in 1844.{{cite book|last=Dunn|first=Samuel|author-link =Samuel Dunn (minister)|title=Memoirs of the seventy-five eminent divines: whose discourses form the|year=1844|publisher=Snow|location=London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPlLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9}} {{columns-list |colwidth=15em| *[Richard Adams](/source/Richard_Adams_(religious_writer)) *[Vincent Alsop](/source/Vincent_Alsop) *[Samuel Annesley](/source/Samuel_Annesley) *[Matthew Barker](/source/Matthew_Barker) *[William Bates](/source/William_Bates_(minister)) *[Richard Baxter](/source/Richard_Baxter) *[Andrew Bromhall](/source/Andrew_Bromhall) *[Daniel Burgess](/source/Daniel_Burgess_(minister)) *[Edmund Calamy the Elder](/source/Edmund_Calamy_the_Elder) *[Thomas Case](/source/Thomas_Case) *[Stephen Charnock](/source/Stephen_Charnock) *[David Clarkson](/source/David_Clarkson_(minister)) *[Thomas Cole](/source/Thomas_Cole_(minister)) *[John Collins](/source/John_Collins_(minister)) *[William Cooper](/source/William_Cooper_(Puritan)) *[Zachary Crofton](/source/Zachary_Crofton) *[Thomas Doolittle](/source/Thomas_Doolittle) *[Roger Drake](/source/Roger_Drake_(physician)) *[Richard Fairclough](/source/Richard_Fairclough_(divine)) *[Christopher Fowler](/source/Christopher_Fowler_(minister)) *[Theophilus Gale](/source/Theophilus_Gale) *John Gibbon *[Thomas Gouge](/source/Thomas_Gouge) *[William Greenhill](/source/William_Greenhill) *[George Hamond](/source/George_Hamond) *[Joseph Hill](/source/Joseph_Hill_(lexicographer)) *[William Hook](/source/William_Hooke_(minister)) *[John Howe](/source/John_Howe_(puritan)) *[Henry Hurst](/source/Henry_Hurst_(theologian)) *[John Jackson](/source/John_Jackson_(minister)) *Samuel Jacomb *[Thomas Jacomb](/source/Thomas_Jacomb) *[James Janeway](/source/James_Janeway) *[William Jenkyn](/source/William_Jenkyn) *John Kitchen *[Edward Lawrence](/source/Edward_Lawrence_(minister)) *[Samuel Lee](/source/Samuel_Lee_(English_minister)) *[Stephen Lobb](/source/Stephen_Lobb) *[Thomas Lye](/source/Thomas_Lye) *[Thomas Mallery](/source/Thomas_Mallery) *[Thomas Manton](/source/Thomas_Manton_(minister)) *[Richard Mayo](/source/Richard_Mayo_(minister)) *[John Meriton](/source/John_Meriton) *John Millward *[Benjamin Needler](/source/Benjamin_Needler) *[Christopher Nesse](/source/Christopher_Nesse) *John Oakes *[John Owen](/source/John_Owen_(theologian)) *Thomas Parson *Elias Pledger *[Matthew Poole](/source/Matthew_Poole) *Thomas Senior *[John Sheffield](/source/John_Sheffield_(minister)) *Mr. Simmons *John Singleton *[Samuel Slater](/source/Samuel_Slater_(minister)) *[Richard Steel](/source/Richard_Steele_(minister)) *[Matthew Sylvester](/source/Matthew_Sylvester) *William Taylor *[John Tillotson](/source/John_Tillotson) *[Robert Trail](/source/Robert_Traill_(Scottish_minister)) *[Edward Veal](/source/Edward_Veal) *[Nathaniel Vincent](/source/Nathaniel_Vincent) *[Thomas Vincent](/source/Thomas_Vincent_(minister)) *[Peter Vinke](/source/Peter_Vinke) *[Thomas Wadsworth](/source/Thomas_Wadsworth) *Stephen Watkins *[Thomas Watson](/source/Thomas_Watson_(Puritan)) *[John Wells](/source/John_Wells_(minister)) *Edward West *[William Whittaker](/source/William_Whitaker_(Puritan_ejected_minister)) *Thomas White *[Henry Wilkinson](/source/Henry_Wilkinson_(1610%E2%80%931675)) *[Daniel Williams](/source/Daniel_Williams_(theologian)) *Thomas Woodcock }} ==References== {{reflist}} Category:Puritanism in England --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Morning Exercises](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Exercises) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Exercises?action=history)). 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