Nathaniel Vincent

Nathaniel Vincent (? – 22 June 1697) was an English nonconformist minister, ejected in 1662 and several times imprisoned. Nathaniel, the third son, entered Oxford University as a chorister on 18 October 1648, aged 10. He matriculated from Corpus Christi College on 28 March 1655, graduated B.A. from Christ Church, Oxford on 13 March 1656, M.A. on 11 June 1657, and was chosen chaplain of Corpus Christi College. He was appointed by Oliver Cromwell one of the first fellows of his Durham University, but never resided there. His funeral sermon was preached by Nathaniel Taylor. His wife Anna and six children were living in 1682. A daughter Anna married, on 4 December 1695, Dennis Herbert, jun., of London.

Works Vincent wrote:

The Conversion of a Sinner Explained and Applied, London, 1669; The Spirit of Prayer, London, 1674; The Little Child's Catechism, whereunto is added several Short Histories, 1681. The True Touchstone, London, 1681. The More Excellent Way, London, 1684. The right notion of honour, 1685. A Warning given to secure Sinners, London, 1688. (The dates of the last four do not appear.)

Sermons by Vincent are in Samuel Annesley's Continuation of Morning Exercises, London, 1683, and in his Casuistical Morning Exercises, London, 1690; reprinted in vols. iv., v., and vi. of Nichols's edition, London, 1814–5. Vincent was much in request for preaching funeral sermons; five or six were printed in quarto. He edited the Morning Exercise against Popery (London, 1675), twenty-five sermons preached in his pulpit at Southwark by visiting divines.