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Joseph Besse (1683?-1757)

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Type of entity: Person

Name: Joseph Besse

Date of birth: 1683?

Date of death: 1757

Source of information: Special Collections

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All Souls Theology 3 BES: A defence of Quakerism : or, An answer to a book intituled A preservative against Quakerism; written by Patrick Smith... In which answer, his charges against the Quakers of deism, enthusiasm, heresy, and schism, are considered and refuted: his misinterpretations of the holy scriptures manifested: his frequent perversions of the Quakers writings detected; and their truly Christian principles stated, and vindicated, in opposition to his attempts, which are shewn to be weak and self-contradictory. With an appendix containing I. An examination of the first class of Quaker-testimonies, produced in a late vindication of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. II. A detection of the falshood of Pickworth's narrative

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Birkbeck Library 123.5: A full answer to The country parson's plea against the Quakers Tythe-Bill. The priest taken in his own craft, and confuted by his own arguments. His ordination consider'd and left at the gates of Rome

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Birkbeck Library 123.8: The clergy's plea for a settled and forced maintenance from the Quakers, by tithes, offerings, oblations, fees for marriages, baptism, alias rantism, burials, &c. examined, and proved to be contrary to scripture, right reason, and the laws and canons of the Church. And also inconsistent with their oaths against simony, and of canonical obedience

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Birkbeck Library 124.3: An enquiry into the validity of a late discourse, intituled The nature and duty of self-defence

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Birkbeck Library 129.1: A cloud of witnesses, proving, that the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, in the second volume of his Vindication of the miracles of our blessed Saviour, hath misrepresented the people call'd Quakers

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Birkbeck Library 129.2: An answer to a pamphlet lately printed at Edinburgh, intituled, Baptism with water and infant-baptism asserted : Wherein, the mistakes of its author are rectified, and his reasonings confuted

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Birkbeck Library 129.3: The Protestant flail : or a defence (grounded upon scripture) of a letter to the clergy of Northumberland: in answer to a pamphlet intitl'd A vindication of Bishop Taylor, &c

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Birkbeck Library 129.4: A reply to a late Defence of the pamphlet intituled, Baptism with water and infant-baptism asserted : wherein the mistakes of the author of that Defence are further rectified, and his reasonings farther confuted. With an appendix, containing some remarks on the preface to a late Reply to the Protestant flail... [etc.]

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Birkbeck Library 130.1: An examination of a late Vindication of a Defence of Baptism with water and infant-baptism asserted : wherein the validity of a former reply to that Defence, and the insufficiency of the Vindication, are demonstrated. With a postscript relating to the Protestant Reformation, academical learning, and a declaration of George Fox against Popery

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Birkbeck Library 130.2: A letter to Stephen Clarke, rector of Burythorpe in Yorkshire, in answer to his Short vindication of the clergy's right to tithes

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Birkbeck Library 130.3: An examination of a discourse or sermon published by Daniel Dobel of Cranbrook in Kent, on the subject of water-baptism : with remarks on his preface to the same

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Birkbeck Library 130.4: The universality of the love of God to mankind, proved by express testimonies of the holy scriptures. Also, an enquiry into the scriptural significations of the words election, elect, and reprobate

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Birkbeck Library 130.5: A letter concerning the glory and excellency of the peaceable state of the kingdom of the Messiah : wherein the nature of warlike heroism, and that of Christian fortitude, are distinguished

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Birkbeck Library 130.6: The doctrine of the people called Quakers, in relation to bearing arms and fighting; extracted from the works of a learned and approved writer of that persuasion

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Birkbeck Library 130.7: Some scriptural observations on I. The spirituality of gospel-worship. II. The nature of true Christian prayer. III. Our Saviour's direction concerning fasting. In a letter to a friend, subscrib'd Philalethes. To which is added,a postscript, by way of answer to some objections

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Birkbeck Library 152.1: The doctrine of the people called Quakers, in relation to bearing arms and fighting; extracted from the works of a learned and approved writer of that persuasion

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Birkbeck Library 161.1: A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people call'd Quakers : in the exchequer, ecclesiastical, and other courts, for demands recoverable by the acts made in the 7th and 8th years of the reign of King William the Third, for the more easie recovery of tithes, church-rates, &c. Humbly submitted to the consideration of the members of both Houses of Parliament

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Birkbeck Library 161.2: A vindication of a book, intituled, A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people call'd Quakers, &c., lately presented to the members of both houses of Parliament; shewing the fallacy and injustice of the calculations and remarks in a late book call'd An examination, &c.; the evasions and disingenuity of the clergy of the diocese of London in their answers and reflections; and the falshood and inconsistency of the intelligences by them published. To which is added remarks on The poor vicar's plea, with Bishop Burnet's description of the ecclesiastical courts

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Birkbeck Library 161.3: Remarks on a pamphlet lately published by the clergy of the diocese of London, under the title of A defence of the Examination of a book entituled, A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people call'd Quakers, &c. So far as the said clergy are concerned in it

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Birkbeck Library 162.1: A vindication of a book intituled, A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people called Quakers, &c. Presented to the members of both Houses of Parliament, in answer to a late Examination thereof, so far as the clergy of the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry are concerned in it. With an appendix, in reply to the objections of two clergymen of the diocese call'd St. Davids

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