Grantham Killingworth (1699–1778) was an English lay

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controversialist.

Life

A grandson of Thomas Grantham, he was born in

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. He was a layman, and a personal friend of

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, whom he supplied with evidence of cures effected through "prayer, fasting, and annointing with oyl" by a Unitarian Baptist minister, William Barron (died 7 February 1731, aged 51).Alexander Gordon, ‘Killingworth, Grantham (bap.1698, d. 1778)’, rev. Emma Major, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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/ref> Killingworth died in 1778, leaving an endowment to the Priory Yard

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chapel, in Norwich.

Works

Killingworth wrote on the perpetuity of baptism, against

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; in favour of credobaptism, against

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, and Michajah Towgood; and on close communion, against James Foster, John Wiche, and Charles Bulkley. His publications include: * ''A Supplement to the Sermons … at Salters' Hall against Popery'', 1735; 3rd ed. 1736; 5th ed. 1738, with appendices, including his answer to Emlyn's ''Previous Question'', 1710. * ''An Examination'', 1741, of Foster's ''Discourse'' (1744) on "catholic communion". * ''An Answer to the Defence of Dr. Foster'', 1752, (the ''Defence'' was by "Philocatholicus", i.e. John Wiche). * ''An Answer to Mr. Charles Bulkley's Pleas for Mixt Communion'', 1756. * ''A Letter … to the late … Mr. Whiston'', 1757.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Killingworth, Grantham 1699 births 1778 deaths English Baptists Clergy from Norwich