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Authority Cited: Calamy
Author name and dates: Benjamin Calamy (1646-1686)

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BKG Bio-tweet: eloquent polemicist; appointed to ejected father's living; declined to intercede for Baptist opponent who died in prison 

Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 23 Calamy cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 40 Calamy cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional Calamy cites wiere identified in the 1773 Dict.]

• Sermons: Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions by Benjamin Calamy, D.D., Late Vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry, and one of His Majestey's Chaplains in Ordinary. the Second Edition, Corrected, 1690, London, Printed by M. Clark for Henry Dickenson and Richard Green, Booksellers in Cambridge [BKG Note: the edition SJ used is uncertain, the following sampled citations are referencd to the 2nd edition, 1690.  Many Dict. entries from this work are edited/abridged from the source.]; bankrupt (p.355); blush (p.358); calamitous (p.18); convenience (p.28); come (p.348); counternoise (p.329); courteously (p.9); dally (p.359); debauch (p.338); determination (p.340); eclipse (p.9); enthusiastical (p.8); epicurism (p.20); facile (p.342); fellowship (p.27); flout (p.341);  foil (p.333); fool (p.359); good (p.5); hanker (p.74); humorously (p.351, humorsomly in source); instill [instil in 4th ed.] (p.4); intercede (p.361); lessen (p.34); levity (p.6); master (p.348); no (p.332); obnoxious (p.360); parley (p.358); partaker (p.12); past (p.334); patiently (p.326); pity (p.18); poor (p.30); profitableness (p.319); qualm (p.338); [BKG Note: The sampled quaotations are nearly all from the beginning of this work, or from pp.319-360 (of 495pp.)]
• Calamy (no work cited); rate; recur; retaliation; room; run; scare; schismatick; set; shortlived; shortly; spiritual; stand (2); steal; stewardship; strangely; sue (2); surpassing; sworn; this; time; to; trap; wellspent; willingness; yearn

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