About Edward Aspinwall
Lived 1678 – 1732 (aged 53–54). Edward Aspinwall was a writer.
Edward Aspinwall, D.D. (died 1732), was an English polemical divine.
Life
Aspinwall received his education at Cambridge University, and was appointed chaplain to the Earl of Radnor. Afterwards he became sub-dean of the Chapel Royal, and in 1729 was instituted prebendary of Westminster.
Aspinwall died on 3 August 1732.
Works
Aspinwall was the author of a Preservative against Popery, 1715, and an Apology, being a series of Arguments in Proof of the Christian Religion, 1731. The Apology, mainly directed against the deist Anthony Collins, was prefaced by an address 'To all Impartial Freethinkers,' in which Aspinwall articulated his ideal of impartiality:
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English priest
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Edward Aspinwall died in 1732.
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Edward Aspinwall was a writer.
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