Laurence Womock
Laurence Womock (also Lawrence Womach or Womack) (1612–1686) was an English bishop. He is best known for his controversial writings, some of which were signed Tilenus, after Daniel Tilenus, expressing his hostility to Calvinism in general, and the Synod of Dort in particular.
Life
He was born at Lopham, Norfolk, where his father was rector. He graduated B.A. from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1632, and M.A. in 1636.[1] He became chaplain to William Paget, 5th Baron Paget.[2][3]
He was published by the royalist printer Richard Royston. With Thomas Pierce and Jeremy Taylor, he was one of the Arminian clerics attacked by Edward Bagshaw the younger and Henry Hickman.[4]
On the Restoration of 1660 he was made Archdeacon of Suffolk, Prebendary of Ely, and Doctor of Divinity in 1661. He replied to Edmund Calamy's 1662 sermon Eli trembling for fear of the Ark. He became Bishop of St David's in 1683.[3]
Works
- Beaten Oyle for the Lamps of the Sanctuarie (1641)
- Sober Sadness (1643)
- The examination of Tilenus before the triers (1658)
- Arcana dogmatum anti-remonstrantium. Or the Calvinists cabinet unlock'd (1659)
- The Dressing Up of the Crown (1660)
- The solemn league and convenant arraigned and condemned (1661)
- The result of false principles, or, Error convicted by its own evidence (1661)
- Pulpit-conceptions, popular-deceptions, or, The grand debate resumed (1662)
- Aron-bimnucha: or, an Antidote to cure the Calamites of their Trembling for fear of the Ark (1663)
- Anti-Boreale (1663)
- Conformity re-asserted in an echo to R.S. (1664)
- Moses and Aaron, the king and the priest (1675)
- The verdict upon the dissenters plea, occasioned by their Melius inquirendum (1681)
- Two letters containing a further justification of the Church of England against the dissenters (1682) first letter attributed to Thomas Pierce
- Suffragium Protestantium (1683)
Notes
- ^ Womock, Laurence in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ^ Christopher Durston, By the book or with the spirit: the debate over liturgical prayer during the English Revolution, Historical Research Volume 79 Issue 203, Pages 50 – 73; Published Online: 13 Jan 2006.
- ^ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Nicholas Tyacke, Religious Controversy, p. 599 in Trevor Henry Aston, Nicholas Tyacke (editors), The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford (1984).
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Womock, Laurence |
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Bishop of St David's |
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1612 |
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1687 |
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