The Religion of Protestants A Safe Way to Salvation

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Of William Chillingworth and a Safe Way to Salvation

Already a controversial author for his suspected Socinian views, William Chillingworth created his major work as an intervention in another controversy, coming to the defense of Christopher Potter, Provost of The Queen’s College, Oxford, against the Jesuit Edward Knott. Potter had replied in 1633 to Knott’s Charity Mistaken, and Knott retaliated with Mercy and Truth, which Chillingworth attempted to answer. Chillingworth wrote The Religion of Protestants while staying at Great Tew, owned by Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland. William Laud, now Archbishop of Canterbury, was anxious about Chillingworth’s reply to Knott, and at his request it was examined by Richard Baily, John Prideaux, and Samuel Fell, and published with their approval in 1638, with the title The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation.