Edward Worsley

Edward Worsley (1605 – 2 September 1676) was an English Jesuit writer and professor.

Life

Worsley was born in Lancashire, England, 1605. His cousin was the prioress Anne Worsley.[1] 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 September 1626,[2] 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 September 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.

He died at Antwerp, 2 September 1676.

Works

His chief works, mostly written against Edward 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);
• "Anti-Goliath" (1678), published after his death.

References

1. "Worsley, Anne [name in religion Anne of the Ascension] (1588–1644), founding prioress of the English Carmelite convent, Antwerp | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-105826. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
2. Edward Worsley at Wikisource

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Worsley, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Edward Worsley". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.