Thomas Long (writer)
Thomas Long (1621–1707) was an English clergyman and writer on Church politics. He spent almost all of his life in Exeter.
Life[]
He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1642. He was prebendary of Exeter from 1600 to 1701.[1]
Writings[]
In 1678 he attacked the late John Hales, incidentally taking a swipe at Andrew Marvell.[2]
After the Glorious Revolution he wrote from the Whig perspective, in A Resolution of Certain Queries (1689), advocating submission to the new government.[3] He replied, however, to John Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), by writing like Jonas Proast, a High Church critique of Locke’s advocacy of religious toleration.
After the 1690 republication of Eikonoklastes, he entered the controversy over the authorship of the Eikon Basilike, writing against and supporting .[4] He also attacked the Unitarian tract The Naked Gospel (1690), the work of Arthur Bury.
Works[]
- Mr. Hales's Treatise of Schism Examined and Censor'd (1678)
- A Resolution of Certain Queries (1689)
- The letter for toleration decipher’d, and the absurdity and impiety of an absolute toleration demonstrated (1689)
- An Answer to a Socinian Treatise called "The Naked Gospel" (1691)
- Dr. Walker's true, modest, and faithful account of the author of Eikon basilike, strictly examined, and demonstrated to be false, impudent, and deceitful (1693)
- Apostolic communion in the Church of England (1702)
References[]
- Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers (2000), article pp. 538–540.
Notes[]
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ Elizabeth Story Donno, Andrew Marvell: The Critical Heritage (1995), p. 49.
- ^ Margaret Sampson, Laxity and Liberty, p. 85 in Edmund Leites (editor), Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe (2002).
- ^ John Kenyon, Revolution Principles (1977) p. 67.
- 1621 births
- 1707 deaths
- 17th-century English Anglican priests