"John Howe was an English Puritan theologian and Presbyterian minister. He served briefly as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell and was a confidant of William of Orange. Intellectually, he was equally well connected—among his friends were the scientist Robert Boyle, the Cambridge Platonist Henry More, the poet Andrew Marvell, the future Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson, and the philosopher John Locke. While Howe was concerned to defend Reformed tradition, he was also acutely conscious of the need to modify received ideas in a new ideological context"--www.thegospelcoalition.org.