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Edward Worsley

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Born in Lancashire, England, 1605; died at Antwerp, 2 Sept., 1676. He is said to have been educated at Oxford, but his name does not occur in the University Registers, and it is equally uncertain that he took Anglican orders. Having become a Jesuit on 7 Sept., 1626, he studied at Liège, where he subsequently became a professor of philosophy, logic, and Scripture, winning a great reputation for talent and erudition. He was made a professed father 20 Sept., 1641. Having laboured for a time in London, he became rector of the college at Liège from 1658 till 1662, where he was made procurator at the professed house at Antwerp. His chief works, mostly written against Stillingfleet, 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); and "Anti-Goliath" (1678), published after his death.

Sources

DODD, Church History (Brussles) vere Wolverhampton, 1737-42); FOLEY, Records Eng. Prov. S.J., IV and VII (London, 1883); OLIVER, Jesuit Collections (Exeter, 1838); COOPER in Dict. Nat. Biog., s.v.; DE BACKER, Bibl. des ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jesus.

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APA citation. Burton, E. (1912). Edward Worsley. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15713a.htm

MLA citation. Burton, Edwin. "Edward Worsley." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15713a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Michael T. Barrett. Dedicated to the memory of Edward Worsley.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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