Edward Worsley (1605 – 2 September 1676) was an English

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writer and professor.

Life

Worsley was born in

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, England, 1605. His cousin was the prioress

Anne Worsley Anne Worsley religious name Anne of the Ascension (1588 – 1644) was an English catholic nun. She was the founding prioress of the English Carmelite convent in Antwerp. Life Worsley's parents were John and Eleanor (born Hervey) Worsley. Her fat ...

. He is said to have been educated at

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, but his name does not occur in the University Registers, and it is equally uncertain that he took

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orders. Having become a Jesuit on 7 September 1626, Edward Worsley at Wikisource he studied at

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, where he subsequently became a professor of philosophy,

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, and

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, winning a great reputation for talent and erudition. He was made a professed father 20 September 1641. Having laboured for a time in London, he became rector of the college at Liège from 1658 till 1662, where he was made

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at the

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at Antwerp. He died at

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, 2 September 1676.

Works

His chief works, mostly written against

Edward Stillingfleet Edward Stillingfleet (17 April 1635 – 27 March 1699) was an English Christian theologian and scholar. Considered an outstanding preacher as well as a strong polemical writer defending Anglicanism, Stillingfleet was known as "the beauty of ho ...

, are: *"Truth will out" (1665); *"Protestancy without Principles" (1668); *"Reason and Religion" (1672); *"The Infallibility of the Roman Catholic Church" (1674); *"A Discourse of Miracles" (1676); *"Anti-Goliath" (1678), published after his death.

References

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