though strongly opposed to both presbyterians and prelatists, managed to retain it for several years. The committee of the county endeavoured to prevent his preaching at St Ives, but on being interrupted he left the building, and going into a neighbouring churchyard preached from under a tree to a large congregation. In June 1646 he was apprehended by the magistrates at Spalding for baptising in the river, but was released. He was, however, persecuted by the neighbouring ministers, and he resigned his living and became a soldier in the parliamentary army. At the conclusion of the civil war he again became a preacher. In 1658 he held a public dispute, lasting two days, concerning infant baptism with Peter Gunning in St Clement Danes. Works Although a partisan, his views were moderate: by some he was reproached for being an antinomian, and by others as an Arminian. Besides the works already mentioned, he wrote: "The Man of Sin discovered, whom the Lord will destroy with the brightness of His Coming", 1645. "The Drag-Net of the Kingdom of Heaven; or Christ's drawing all Men", 1646. "The Levellers' Design discovered", 1649. "A Contention for Truth; in two several Disputations at St. Clement's Church, between Dr Gunning and Henry Denne, concerning Infant Baptism", 1658. "The Quaker no Papist, in answer to The Quaker Disarmed", 1659. "An Epistle recommended to all Prisons in this City and Nation. To such as chuse Restraint rather than the Violation of their Consciences, wherein is maintained: (1) The Lawfulness of an Oath; (2) The Antiquity of an Oath; (3) The Universality of it. With the most material Objections answered", 1660. "Grace, Mercy, and Truth" Notes and references Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Denne, Henry (1605/6?-1666), General Baptist minister and religious controversialist by T. L. Underwood. Citations Sources External links Henry Denne Biographical Information Henry Denne Collected Writings 1606 births 1666 deaths 17th-century Baptists 17th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Arminian ministers Arminian writers English Baptists People from Kent Roundheads Year of birth uncertain