Thomas Herne (died 1722) was an English academic and lay participant in religious controversy.
Life
A native of
Suffolk
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, he was admitted as a pensioner at
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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,
on 29 October 1711. In the following year he was elected to a scholarship, graduated B.A. in 1715, and was incorporated at Oxford 21 February 1716. Not long afterwards the Duchess of Bedford made him tutor to her sons
Wriothesley and
John
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New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
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, later successively the third and fourth Dukes of Bedford. In 1716 Herne was elected to a vacant fellowship at
Merton College, Oxford
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, and on 11 October 1718 proceeded M.A. He died a layman and unmarried, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, in 1722.
Works
Herne took part in the
Bangorian controversy, and published under the pseudonym ‘Phileleutherus Cantabrigiensis:’
*‘The False Notion of a Christian Priesthood,’ &c., in answer to
William Law
William Law (16869 April 1761) was a Church of England priest who lost his position at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, when his conscience would not allow him to take the required oath of allegiance to the first Hanoverian monarch, George I of Grea ...
, 1717–18;
*‘Three Discourses on Private Judgment against the Authority of the Magistrate over Conscience, and Considerations concerning uniting Protestants, translated from Professor Werenfels, with a preface to Dr. Tenison,’ London, 1718, translating
Samuel Werenfels;
*‘An Essay on Imposing and Subscribing Articles of Religion,’ 1719; and
*‘A Letter to Dr. Mangey, on his Sermon upon Christ's Divinity,’ 1719. To
Thomas Mangey
Thomas Mangey (1688 – 6 March 1755) was an English clergyman and scholar, known for his edition of Philo.
Life
He was son of Arthur Mangey, a goldsmith of Leeds, and was educated at the Leeds free school. He was admitted as sub-sizar to St. ...
.
He also wrote:
*‘A Letter to the Prolocutor, in Answer to one from him to Dr. Tenison,’ 1718, in support of
Edward Tenison
Edward Tenison (1673–1735) was an English bishop of Ossory. An example of the workings of the system of patronage in the Church of England, Tenison also was a significant Whig and controversialist.
Early life
Baptised at Norwich on 3 April ...
;
*‘A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Tenison concerning Citations out of Archbishop Wake's Preliminary Discourse to the Apostolic Fathers,’ London, 1718;
*‘A Vindication of the Archbishop of Canterbury from being the author of “A Letter on the State of Religion in England,” printed at Zurich,’ London, 1719; and
*‘A second Letter to Dr. Mangey,’ by ‘A Seeker after Truth,’ on his sermon on Christ's eternal existence, 1719, under the pseudonym of ‘Philanagnostes Criticus.’
Herne issued in 1719 an account of all the major pamphlets issued in the Bangorian controversy to the end of 1718; a continuation of this account to the end of 1719, London, 1720; and a reissue of the whole, London, 1720.
References
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Year of birth missing
1722 deaths
Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
18th-century English writers
18th-century English male writers
17th-century Anglican theologians
18th-century Anglican theologians