John Terry (c.1555–1625) was a

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clergyman and

anti-Catholic Anti-Catholicism is hostility towards Catholics or opposition to the Catholic Church, its Hierarchy of the Catholic Church, clergy, and/or its adherents. At various points after the Reformation, some majority Protestantism, Protestant states, ...

controversialist. Educated at

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, he was elected a fellow of the college until taking the living of

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in 1590. The ''Triall of Truth'' attacked Roman Catholicism.

Works

*''The Triall of Truth'', 1600 *''The second part of the trial of truth'', 1602 *''The reasonablenesse of wise and holy truth'', 1617 *''Theologicall Logicke: or the third part of the Tryall of truth'', 1625

References

*Stephen Wright
‘Terry, John (c.1555–1625)’
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 20 Dec 2007 1550s births 1625 deaths Alumni of New College, Oxford Fellows of New College, Oxford English non-fiction writers English Protestants 16th-century Protestants 17th-century English Anglican priests English religious writers 16th-century English writers 16th-century male writers 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers English male non-fiction writers {{anglican-stub