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See also:STILLINGFLEET, See also:EDWARD (1635—1699) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Cranborne, See also:Dorset, on the 17th of See also:April 1635. There and at See also:Ringwood he received his See also:early See also:education, and at the See also:age of thirteen was entered at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He took his B.A. in 1652, and in the following See also:year was elected to a See also:fellow-See also:ship. After residing as See also:tutor first in the See also:family of See also:Sir See also:Roger See also:Burgoyne in See also:Warwickshire and then with the Hon. See also:Francis Pierrepoint at See also:Nottingham, he was in 1657 presented by the former to the living of See also:Sutton in See also:Bedfordshire. Here he published (1659) his Irenicum, in which he sought to give expression to the prevailing weariness of the See also:faction between See also:Episcopacy and See also:Presbyterianism, and to find some See also:compromise in which all could conscientiously unite. He looks upon the See also:form of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:government as non-essential, but condemns See also:Nonconformity. In 1662 (the year of the See also:Act of Uniformity) he reprinted the Irenicum with an appendix, in which he sought to prove that " the church is a distinct society from the See also:state, and has See also:divers rights and privileges of its own." Stillingfleet's actions were as liberal as his opinions, and he aided more than one ejected See also:minister. In later years he was not so liberal. But, though in 168o he published his Unreasonableness of Separation, his willingness to serve on the ecclesiastical See also:commission of 1689, and the See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation he then proposed of the damnatory clauses of the Athanasian creed, are See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof that to the end he leaned towards See also:toleration. His rapid promotion See also:dates from 1662, when he published Origines sacrae, or a Rational See also:Account of the See also:Christian Faiti, as to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Scriptures and the Matters therein contained. See also:Humphrey Henchman, See also:bishop of See also:London, employed him to write a vindication of See also:Laud's See also:answer to John See also:Fisher, the Jesuit. In 1665 the See also:earl of See also:Southampton presented him to St See also:Andrew's, See also:Holborn, two years later he became See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's, in 1668 See also:chaplain to See also:Charles II., in 167o See also:canon residentiary, and in 1678 See also:dean of St Paul's. He was also preacher at the Rolls See also:Chapel and reader at the See also:Temple. Finally he was consecrated bishop of See also:Worcester on the 13th of See also:October 1689. During these years he was ceaselessly engaged in controversy with Nonconformists, Romanists, Deists and Socinians. His unrivalled and various learning, his dialectical expertness, and his massive See also:judgment, rendered him a formidable antagonist; but the respect entertained for him by his opponents was chiefly aroused by his recognized love of truth and superiority to See also:personal considerations. He was one of the seven bishops who resisted the proposed See also:Declaration of See also:Indulgence (1688). The range of his learning is most clearly seen in his Bishob's Right to See also:Vote in See also:Parliament in Cases See also:Capital. His Origines Britannicae, or Antiquities of the See also:British Church (1685), is a See also:strange mixture of See also:critical and uncritical See also:research. He was so handsome in See also:person as to have earned the See also:sobriquet of " the beauty of holiness." In his closing years he had some controversy with John See also:Locke, whom he considered to have impugned the See also:doctrine of the Trinity. He died at See also:Westminster on the 28th of See also:March 1690, and was buried at Worcester. His See also:manuscripts were bought by See also:Robert Harley (afterwards earl of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford), his books by See also:Narcissus See also:Marsh, See also:archbishop of See also:Armagh.
A collected edition of his See also:works, with See also:life by See also:Richard See also:Bentley, was published in London (171o) ; and a useful edition of The Doctrines and Practices of the Church of See also:Rome Truly Represented was published in 1845 by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Cunningham.
End of Article: STILLINGFLEET, EDWARD (1635—1699)
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