John Griffith

John Griffith (c. 1622 — 1700) was an English General Baptist minister and physician.

Life Little is known about John Griffith's early life. Griffith was born around 1622. He received university education, a medical training, and was known as Dr. Griffith.

He became convinced of Baptists views in 1640, was subsequently baptized, and established the Dunning's Alley church, Bishopsgate Street Without, in London around 1646.

After the English Restoration of 1660, Griffith frequently got into trouble as a conventicle preacher; and persistently declined the oath of allegiance. His difficulty was that the terms of the oath bound him to obey laws not then in being, and future sovereigns who might be Roman Catholic. Griffith was imprisoned at Newgate Prison in 1661 for 17 months. He was again committed on 18 April 1683, and is said to have spent 14 years in gaol. A Complaint of the Oppressed, 1661. The Unlawfulness of Mixed Marriages, 1681. The Case of Mr. John Griffith, 1683. On the prosecution of that year of Griffith and Francis Bampfield for refusing the oath of allegiance.

Posthumous was Two Discourses, 1707, revised by J. Jenkins.