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  Edward Stillingfleet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Edward Stillingfleet was born at Cranborne, Dorsetshire on 17 April 1635 and died in London, where he had gone for medical treatment, on 27 March 1699.
In 1663 Stillingfleet took the degree of BD, and in 1665 was appointed rector of St Andrew’s, Holborn.
Stillingfleet, by contrast, grounded the difference between bodies and minds in their substantial natures, which reason enables us to tell ‘are separated by the whole diameter of being’ (the phrase was used by John Norris, a contemporary of Stillingfleet), and he was aghast at Locke’s ‘thinking matter’ suggestion.
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 Edward Stillingfleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Stillingfleet (1635 - 1699) was a British theologian.
Stillingfleet was a good and honest man and had the respect of his strongest opponents.
Stillingfleet was a scholarly man and at his death left a library of some 10,000 books, which was purchased by Narcissus Marsh and is today housed in Marsh’s Library in Dublin, Ireland.
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 Stillingfleet | British History Online
The village of Stillingfleet is situated on the northern edge of the Escrick moraine, near the east bank of the river Ouse, some 7 miles south of York.
(Footnote 58) The population of Stillingfleet with Moreby was 304 in 1801 and it increased steadily to a peak of 422 in 1861, before decreasing to 302 in 1901.
of woodland in Stillingfleet township and 35 a.
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 AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGINAL, NATURE, INSTITUTION, POWER, ORDER, AND COMMUNION OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES.
Stillingfleet in reply published a large work, with the title, “The Unreasonableness of Separation; or, an Impartial account of the history, nature, and pleas of the present separation from the communion of the Church of England.
Perhaps Stillingfleet himself had most reason to complain of the mistake, by whatever means it was occasioned, for it really deprived his chief argument against them of all its strength and relevancy.
Dr Stillingfleet pleads that “it is very unlikely that the people would forego their interest in the government of the churches, if ever they had any such thing, without great noise and trouble.
www.godrules.net /library/owen/131-295owen_o4.htm   (6414 words)

  
 §3. Controversy with Stillingfleet. XIV. John Locke. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English ...
This was Edward Stillingfleet, bishop of Worcester, who, in his Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (1696), had attacked the new philosophy.
Stillingfleet answered this in May; and Locke was ready with a second letter in August.
Stillingfleet replied in 1698, and Locke’s lengthy third letter appeared in 1699.
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 GENUKI: York Minster Marriages 1726-7 to 1742
Edward Stillingfleet.-His cousin, Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Stillington, esq., of Kelfield, by Dorothy, daughter of Richard Peirse, esq., of Hutton Bonville, father of the above-mentioned Thomas Peirse, esq., of Thimbleby.
Edward Bourne, of Rother ham, and Mary Tolson, of the par.
Edward Foster, of Garton, and Mary Milner, of Aldbrough.
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 RICHARD BENTLEY - LoveToKnow Article on RICHARD BENTLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In this post he did not remain long, being selected by Dr Edward Stillingfleet, dean of St Paul's, to be domestic tutor to his son.
The six years which he passed in Stillingfleet's family were employed, with the restless energy characteristic of the man, in exhausting the remains of the Greek and Latin writers, and laying up those stores of knowledge upon which he afterwards drew as circumstances required.
In 1689 Stillingfleet became bishop of Worcester, and Bentley's pupil went to reside at Oxford in Wadham College, accompanied by his tutor.
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 GENUKI: Stillingfleet Parish information from Bulmers' 1892.
The village of Stillingfleet is built on both banks of a small stream which flows into the Ouse about one mile further down.
She died childless in 1804, and the estate was sold by public auction in 1812 to seven gentlemen for the sum of £58,000.
The house belongs to Edward Harper, Esq., and is occupied by a farmer.
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 Richard Bentley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He afterwards obtained a scholarship and took the degree of B.A. in 1680 (M.A. He never became a Fellow, but was appointed by his college, before he was twenty-one, headmaster of Spalding grammar school.
The six years Bentley passed in Stillingfleet's family were employed, with the restless energy characteristic of the man, in comprehensive study of Greek and Latin writers, storing up knowledge which would be of use to him later.
Bentley's was soon on a footing of intimacy with the most distinguished scholars in the university, including Dr John Mill, Humphrey Hody, and Edward Bernard.
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 John Locke and Christian Deism
About fifty years later, the term "deist" was in common usage in England because Bishop Edward Stillingfleet, of the Church of England, wrote "Letter to a Deist" in opposition to deism in 1677.
Edward Herbert (1583-1648), in England, was an early proponent of natural and universal religion.
In this essay, Locke attacked Edward Herbert's claim that his five "common notions" were true because they had "universal assent." Locke pointed out that many people did not believe in the existence of God so this belief did not have "universal assent," and humankind did not have "innate" knowledge of God's existence.
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 The Twickenham Museum : Edward Stillingfleet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Edward Stillingfleet was the seventh son of Samuel Stillingfleet of that place in Yorkshire and Susannah Norris of Petworth.
In 1690 the rates increased but there is not an exact mathematical correlation between the two years so a successor cannot be identified with confidence.
Stillingfleet died at his house in London on 27 March 1699 and was taken to Worcester for burial.
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 Lillian Goldman Law Library /All Locations
Ecclesiastical cases relating to the duties and rights of the parochial clergy, stated and resolved according to the principles of conscience and law / by the Right Reverend father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.
Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester"; at end of v.
Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester, and sold by Henry Mortlock...": v.
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 Stillingfleet, Edward.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Edward Stillingfleet, born April 17, 1635 at Cranborne, Dorset was an English clergyman who rose to the position of Bishop of Worcester in the Church of England.
Stillingfleet wrote Irenicum in 1659 which suggested a compromise between Episcopacy and Presbyterianism.
Stillingfleet died at his house in Park Street, Westminster on March 27, 1699.
www.pitts.emory.edu /Archives/text/mss004.html   (306 words)

  
 §10. Stillingfleet and Patrick. XII. Divines of the Church of England 1660–1700. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
With Burnet, may, not unfairly, be associated the name of another divine, who was his antithesis in character, Edward Stillingfleet, bishop of Worcester.
Stillingfleet’s writing has no exceptional merit as literature.
It reflected, without enriching, the manner of his time; and, when his learning became obsolete, his books passed out of use.
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 Edward Stillingfleet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Edward Stillingfleet (1635 - 1699) was a British (Someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology (especially Christian theology)) theologian.
He was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Cranbourne) Cranbourne, (Click link for more info and facts about Dorset) Dorset, and educated at (A city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University) Cambridge.
A keen controversialist, he wrote many treatises, including The Irenicum (advocating compromise with the (A follower of Calvinism as taught in the Presbyterian Church) Presbyterians), Antiquities of the British Churches, and The Unreasonableness of Separation.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_stillingfleet.htm   (180 words)

  
 Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
Memorable works of a son of thunder and consolation namely that true prophet and faithful servant of God and sufferer for the testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs, who dyed a prisoner for the word of God in the city of London, the fourteenth of the twelfth moneth, 1662.
Iustice to K. Edward I. commonly calld Hengham magna, and Hengham parua.
And in the sixt yere of ye raigne of king Edward the sixt, the right godly and vertuous king of famous and blessed memory.
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 The Philosophy of Edward Stillingfleet;   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
'Edward Stillingfleet, besides being a formidable critic of Locke, was an important thinker in his own right, widely read and respected in the 17th century.
The fame of Edward Stillingfleet (1635 - 99) in the history of philosophy rests on his important controversy with Locke.
A Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity
www.thoemmes.com /17thcphil/stilling.htm   (639 words)

  
 Marshe's Library, Dublin - Interior [Archeire, Irish Architecture Online]
The most important collection is the library of Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699) who was Bishop of Worcester.
Stillingfleet's library was regarded as the finest private library in England in the later part of the 17th century.
Stillingfleet was one of the most influential divines in the Church of England.
www.archeire.com /buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/patrick_street/stpatricks_close/marsh.htm   (554 words)

  
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Edward Stillingfleet who died in 1699 is the last of this great line of Caroline Divines.
In Stillingfleet we see the scene of battle change away from a struggle to avoid the extremes of Calvinism and Roman Catholicism to an all-out effort to confront the new enemy _ rationalism.
One finds in Stillingfleet's writings not insights into religion or religious faith, but simply one argument after another, attempting to establish his case for Christianity beyond a reasonable doubt.31 Perhaps, after these admittedly brief but necessary profiles of some of the Caroline Divines, I can now sum up the principal lines of their theological tradition.
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 Edward Stillingfleet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Edward Stillingfleet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 Humphrey Hody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1689 Hody wrote the Prolegomena to the Greek chronicle of John Malalas, published at Oxford in 1691.
The following year he became chaplain to Edward Stillingfleet, bishop of Worcester, and for his support of the ruling party in a controversy with Henry Dodwell regarding the non-juring bishops he was appointed chaplain to Archbishop Tillotson, an office which he continued to hold under Tenison.
In 1698 he was appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford, and in 1704 was made archdeacon of Oxford.
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 The Philosophy of Edward Stillingfleet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Stillingfleet published in 1697 a second edition of his 1695 attack on Socinianism, titled
That Stillingfleet saw Locke and Toland as in the same camp in matters of natural theology was directly relevant to his appreciation of Locke’s argument.  For, consistently, Stillingfleet reads the
Answer (also in Volume 5).  The exchange is one of the finest philosophical disputes in the seventeenth century, and correspondingly deserves attention from historians of philosophy and of the history of Christian thought in the seventeenth century in ways in which it has not up to now received.
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 John Locke Bibliography: Part I -- Essay concerning human understanding: Translations
This was the tone of the attack leveled by Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, in his Discourse in vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity (1696).
[439] Stillingfleet, E. A discourse in vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity (1697)
Stillingfleet’s attack seemed to open the gates to a flood of adverse and often abusive criticism.
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 A letter to the Right Reverend Edward Ld. Bishop of Worcester, concerning some passages relating to Mr. Locke's essay ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Locke's essay of humane understanding: in a late discourse of his lordships, in vindication of the Trinity.
Edward Stillingfleet, then Bishop of Worcester, in 'A discourse in vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity' (1696), goaded Locke with accusations of unorthodox religious beliefs.
Locke, irritated almost beyond measure by Stillingfleet's casual bracketting of him with John Toland, rejected the accusation with some asperity, and in the process contributed considerably to the interpretation of both the 'Essay' and the 'Vindication'.
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 John Locke Bibliography--Chapter 3 -- 2000
Schuurman, P. “General introduction.” // IN: Of the conduct of the understanding / by John Locke ; edited with a general introduction, historical and philosophical notes and critical apparatus by Paul Schuurman.
Stillingfleet, E. The Bishop of Worcester’s answer to Mr.
Locke’s second letter wherein his notion of ideas is prov’d to be inconsistent with itself / Edward Stillingfleet ; [edited by G.A.J. Rogers].
www.libraries.psu.edu /tas/locke/ch3-00.html   (2263 words)

  
 Stillingfleet, Edward, [Stillingfleet, Edward.] A letter to a deist, in answer to several objections against the truth ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Stillingfleet, Edward, [Stillingfleet, Edward.] A letter to a deist, in answer to several objections against the truth and authority of the Scriptures.
The identity of the deist in question here is not revealed, but it is clear that Stillingfleet is responding to a published work.
A fine copy in an attractive binding of the period, complete with a preliminary leaf of imprimatur, and eight pages of ads at the end.
www.polybiblio.com /ximenes/B3576.html   (344 words)

  
 [Stillingfleet, Bishop Edward]., A Discourse Concerning the Unreasonableness of A New Separation, on account of the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The prolific Stillingfleet is widely held in Institutions and many of his writings are readily available online¯but this pamphlet is not currently listed.
..his (Stillingfleet) power as a writer and the accuracy of his historical and antiquarian knowledge are unquestionable.
D.N.B. Edward Stillingfleet (1635­1699), bishop of Worcester, was chaplain to Charles II, a member of the commission to revise the prayer book, and a frequent speaker in parliament.
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 William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Between them Dartmouth and Stillingfleet did much to protect and nurture the Methodist movement in the Black Country.
To some extent the Methodist Society in West Bromwich was the idealisation of what John Wesley hoped to achieve - a vibrant Methodist Society as part of a wider parish life, with activities co-inciding, rather than competing, with the parish church.
Stillingfleet brought many leading Methodists and Evangelicals to All Saints, all of whom deeply impressed the young Francis Asbury.
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