GOODWIN, JOHN (c. 1594-1665), English Nonconformist divine, was born in Norfolk and educated at Queens' college, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow in 1617. He was vicar of St. Stephen's, Coleman street, London, from 1633 to 1645, when he was ejected by parliament for his attacks on Presbyterianism, especially in his Oeoj ax/a (1644). He established an independ ent congregation, and put his literary gifts at Oliver Cromwell's service. In 1648 he justified the proceedings of the army against the parliament ("Pride's Purge") in a pamphlet Might and Right Well Met, and in 1649 defended the proceedings against Charles I. (to whom he had offered spiritual advice) in `T f3pviroBucat. At the Restoration this tract, with some that Milton had written to Monk in favour of a republic, was publicly burnt, and Goodwin was ordered into custody, though finally indemnified. He died in 1665.