Laurence Womock (1612–1686) was an English bishop. He is best known for his controversial writings, some of which were signed Tilenus, after Daniel Tilenus

Daniel Tilenus

Daniel Tilenus was a German-French Protestant theologian. Initially a Calvinist, he became a prominent and influential Arminian teaching at the Academy of Sedan. He was an open critic of the Synod of Dort of 1618-9....

, expressing his hostility to Calvinism

Calvinism

Calvinism is a Protestant theological system and an approach to the Christian life...

 in general, and the Synod of Dort

Synod of Dort

The Synod of Dort was a National Synod held in Dordrecht in 1618-1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church, to settle a divisive controversy initiated by the rise of Arminianism. The first meeting was on November 13, 1618, and the final meeting, the 154th, was on May 9, 1619...

 in particular.

Life

He was born at Lopham, Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, where his father was rector. He graduated B.A. from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary...

 in 1632, and M.A. in 1636. He became chaplain to William Paget, 5th Baron Paget

William Paget, 5th Baron Paget

William Paget, 5th Baron Paget an English peer born at Beaudesert House Staffordshire, England to William Paget, 4th Baron Paget and Lettice Knollys.-Career:...

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He was published by the royalist printer Richard Royston

Richard Royston

Richard Royston was an English bookseller and publisher, bookseller to Charles I, Charles II and James II.Royston, the son of an Oxford tailor Richard Royston and Alice Tideman, was admitted a freeman of the Stationers' Company in 1627. In the 1630s he published work by John Donne and Thomas Heywood...

. With Thomas Pierce

Thomas Pierce

Thomas Pierce or Peirse was an English churchman and controversialist, a high-handed President of Magdalen College, Oxford and Dean of Salisbury.-Early life:...

 and Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing...

, he was one of the Arminian clerics attacked by Edward Bagshaw the younger and Henry Hickman

Henry Hickman

Henry Hickman was an English ejected minister and controversialist.-Life:A native of Worcestershire, he was educated at St Catharine Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1648. At the end of 1647 he entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and the next year obtained by favour of the parliamentary...

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On the Restoration

English Restoration

The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms...

 of 1660 he was made Archdeacon of Suffolk, Prebendary of Ely, and Doctor of Divinity

Doctor of Divinity

Doctor of Divinity is an advanced academic degree in divinity. Historically, it identified one who had been licensed by a university to teach Christian theology or related religious subjects....

 in 1661. He replied to Edmund Calamy

Edmund Calamy the Elder

Edmund Calamy was an English Presbyterian church leader and divine. Known as "the elder", he was the first of four generations of nonconformist ministers bearing the same name.-Early life:...

's 1662 sermon Eli trembling for fear of the Ark. He became Bishop of St David's

Bishop of St David's

The Bishop of St David's is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of St David's.The succession of bishops stretches back to Saint David who in the 6th century established his seat in what is today the city of St David's in Pembrokeshire, founding St David's Cathedral. The current Bishop of St...

 in 1683.

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
  Thomas Pierce
  Thomas Pierce or Peirse was an English churchman and controversialist, a high-handed President of Magdalen College, Oxford and Dean of Salisbury.-Early life:...
  
  
• Suffragium Protestantium (1683)