Leigh, Edward
LEIGH, EDWARD (1602-1671), English Puritan and theoogian, was born at Shawell, Leicestershire. He was educated at Vlagdalen Hall, Oxford, from 1616, and subsequently became a member of the Middle Temple. In 1636 he entered parliament as member for Stafford, and during the Civil War held a colonelcy n the parliamentary army. He has sometimes been confounded with John Ley (1583-1662), and so represented as having sat n the Westminster Assembly. The public career of Leigh terminated with his expulsion from parliament with the rest of he Presbyterian party in 1648. From an early age he had studied theology and produced numerous compilations, the most mportant being the Critica Sacra, containing Observations on all the Radices of the Hebrew Words of the Old and the Greek of the New Testament (1639-1644; new ed., with supplement, 1662), for which the author received the thanks of the Westminster Assembly, to whom it was dedicated. His other works include Select and Choice Observations concerning the First Twelve Caesars (1635); A Treatise of Divinity (1646-1651); Annotations upon the New Testament (1650), of which a Latin translation by Arnold was published at Leipzig in 1732; A Body of Divinity (1654); A Treatise of Religion and Learning (1656); Annotations of the Five Poetical Books of the Old Testament (1657). Leigh died in Staffordshire in June 1671.
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