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This is a list of the publications of [[Arthur Ashley Sykes]] (1684–1756), an English cleric who wrote controversial pamphlets over three or four decades, arguing a [[latitudinarian]] and rationalist line, and playing a part in the [[Bangorian controversy]].
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|1710
|''Some modest animadversions and reflexions upon a sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, by Dr. West, on Monday, the 30th of January: being the day appointed to be kept, as the day of the martyrdom of the blessed King Charles I. In a letter to the abovesaid Doctor''<ref name="Sykes1710">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=Some modest animadversions and reflexions upon a sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, by Dr. West, on Monday, the 30th of January: being the day appointed to be kept, as the day of the martyrdom of the blessed King Charles I. In a letter to the abovesaid Doctor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X93HGAAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1710}}</ref>
|Eugenius Philalethes<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=Some modest animadversions and reflexions upon a sermon preach'd before the honourable House of Commons, by Doctor West, on Monday, the 30th of January, ... In a letter to the abovesaid Doctor. By Eugenius Philalethes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ulhtQAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1710|publisher=printed, in the year}}</ref>
|Not in Disney's catalogue. A sermon of 30 January 1710 by [[Richard West (priest)|Richard West]] had proved controversial in its views (pan-Protestant, Whig in its politics, and in favour of continuing the [[War of the Spanish Succession]]), and had required a vote in Parliament before it was printed.<ref name="Ihalainen2005">{{cite book|author=Pasi Ihalainen|title=Protestant nations redefined: changing perceptions of national identity in the rhetoric of the English, Dutch, and Swedish public churches, 1685-1772|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kJn3pmwfrwC&pg=PA247|access-date=16 March 2012|year=2005|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-14485-9|pages=247}}</ref>
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|1712
|''An answer to that part of Dr. Brett's sermon which relates to the incapacity of persons not episcopally ordain'd to administer Christian baptism: In a letter to the Doctor''<ref name="Sykes1712">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=An answer to that part of Dr. Brett's sermon which relates to the incapacity of persons not episcopally ordain'd to administer Christian baptism: In a letter to the Doctor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEgqqAAACAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1712|publisher=Printed by W.D. for [[John Morphew]]}}</ref>
|Anonymous<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1 p. 119.</ref>
|The reference is to [[Thomas Brett (nonjuror)|Thomas Brett]].
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|1715
|''The innocency of error, asserted and vindicated''<ref name="Philalethes1715">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The innocency of error, asserted and vindicated|url=https://archive.org/details/innocencyoferror00sykeuoft|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1715|publisher=J. Wyat}}</ref>
|Eugenius Philalethes
|Later editions in 1715 and 1729.<ref name="Disney">{{cite book|author=John Disney|author-link=John Disney (Unitarian)|title=Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Arthur Ashley Sykes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-I1yCxKZAvgC&pg=PR11|pages=xi-xxiv|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1785|publisher=J. Johnson}}</ref>
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|1715
|''The safety of the church under the present ministry consider'd: in a letter to —''<ref name="Sykes1715">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The safety of the church under the present ministry consider'd: in a letter to -|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OPIgqAAACAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1715|publisher=printed for R. Burleigh}}</ref>
|By a clergyman
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|1716
|''An answer to the nonjurors charge of schism upon the Church of England''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=An answer to the nonjurors charge of schism upon the Church of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdlbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1716|publisher=Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard.}}</ref>
|A Clergyman of the Church of England
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|1716
|''The external peace of the church: only attainable by a zeal for Scripture in its just latitude, and by mutual charity; not by a pretense of uniformity of opinion''<ref name="Sykes1976">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The external peace of the church: only attainable by a zeal for Scripture in its just latitude, and by mutual charity; not by a pretense of uniformity of opinion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O83BHAAACAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1716|publisher=Printed for J. Baker}}</ref>
|By a lover of truth and peace<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
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|1716
|''The suspension of the Triennial Bill, the properest means to unite the nation: In a letter to —''<ref name="Sykes1716">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The suspension of the Triennial Bill, the properest means to unite the nation: In a letter to|url=https://archive.org/details/suspensionoftrie00syke|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1716|publisher=Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard}}</ref>
|Sykes
|Sykes expressed the view that a Whig parliament was by no means guaranteed without royal help.<ref name="Gunn1983">{{cite book|author=John Alexander Wilson Gunn|author-link=John Alexander Wilson Gunn|title=Beyond Liberty and Property: the process of self-recognition in eighteenth-century political thought|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yYO8-OUGyJ0C&pg=PA149|access-date=15 March 2012|date=1 July 1983|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-1006-7|pages=149}}</ref>
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|1716
|''The Thanks of an honest clergyman for Mr. Paul's speech at Tybourn, July the 13th, 1716''<ref name="Sykes1716b">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The Thanks of an honest clergyman for Mr. Paul's speech at Tybourn, July the 13th, 1716|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKc1qAAACAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1716|publisher=E. Burleigh}}</ref>
|Sykes
|Reference is to [[William Paul (Jacobite)|William Paul]]. Sykes contested Paul's claim to die as a [[nonjuring schism|nonjuror]] martyr.<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=21608|title=Paul, William|first=Robert D.|last=Cornwall}}</ref>
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|1717
|''The difference between the Kingdom of Christ, and the kingdoms of this world: set forth in a sermon preached at the arch-deacon's visitation, in St. Michael's Church in Cambridge, December 13, 1716''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The difference between the Kingdom of Christ, and the kingdoms of this world: set forth in a sermon preached at the arch-deacon's visitation, in St. Michael's Church in Cambridge, December 13, 1716|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zAfkgAACAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1717|publisher=Printed for James Knapton}}</ref>
|Sykes
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|1717
|''A letter to a friend. In which is shewn, the inviolable nature of publick securities''<ref name="Sykes1717b">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A letter to a friend. In which is shewn, the inviolable nature of publick securities. By a lover of his country|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aexbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1717|publisher=printed for R. Burleigh}}</ref>
|By a lover of his country
|Reprinted by [[John Ramsay McCulloch]].<ref name="McCulloch1966">{{cite book|author=John Ramsay McCulloch|title=A select collection of scarce and valuable tracts and other publications on the national debt and the sinking fund|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4I1AQAAIAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1966|publisher=A.M. Kelley|isbn=9780678001486}}</ref>
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|1717
|''Some remarks on Mr. Marshall's defense of our constitution in church and state. With an appendix. Containing a brief enquiry into the meaning of those words of the 20th article, the church hath - authority in controversies of faith''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=Some remarks on Mr. Marshall's defense of our constitution in church and state. With an appendix. Containing a brief enquiry into the meaning of those words of the 20th article, the church hath - authority in controversies of faith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VwUgqAAACAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1717|publisher=printed for James Knapton}}</ref>
|Sykes
|The reference is to [[Nathaniel Marshall (clergyman)|Nathaniel Marshall]].
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|1717
|''A letter to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock, one of the Committee of Convocation, appointed to draw up a representation concerning the Bishop of Bangor's Preservative and sermon: Comparing the dangerous positions and doctrines contained in the Doctor's sermon, preach'd November 5th, 1712, with those charged upon the Bishop in the late report of the Committee''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A letter to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock, one of the Committee of Convocation, appointed to draw up a representation concerning the Bishop of Bangor's Preservative and sermon: Comparing the dangerous positions and doctrines contained in the Doctor's sermon, preach'd November 5th, 1712, with those charged upon the Bishop in the late report of the Committee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaVbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1717|publisher=Printed, and sold by R. Burleigh, in Amen-Corner}}</ref>
|Sykes
|To [[Thomas Sherlock]], who answered Sykes.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/answertoletterse00sheruoft ''An answer to a letter sent to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock etc. relating to his sermon preach'd before the Lord-Mayor, November the 5th, 1712 : to which are added some observations upon the account the Lord Bishop of Bangor has given to his intended answer to the representation'' (1717)]</ref>
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|1717
|''A second letter to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock,: being a reply to his Answer, &c. Proving the doctrines maintain'd by the doctor in his sermon Nov. 5. 1712. to be the same with those charged upon the Bishop of Bangor, as pernicious, in the late report of the Committee. With an appendix relating to a passage or two in Dr. Snape's Second letter to the Lord Bishop of Bangor''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Arthur Ashley Sykes|author2=Benjamin Hoadly|title=A second letter to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock,: being a reply to his Answer, &c. Proving the doctrines maintain'd by the doctor in his sermon Nov. 5. 1712. to be the same with those charged upon the Bishop of Bangor, as pernicious, in the late report of the Committee. With an appendix relating to a passage or two in Dr. Snape's Second letter to the Lord Bishop of Bangor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKVbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1717|publisher=Printed for James Knapton at the Crown, and Tim. Childe, at the White Hart in St. Paul's Church-yard.}}</ref>
|Sykes with postscript by Hoadly.
|The reference is to [[Andrew Snape]].
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|1717
|''A third letter to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock,: being an answer to his considerations offered to the Bishop of Bangor. With an appendix, in vindication of a passage in the former letter against Dr. Snape''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A third letter to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock: being an answer to his considerations offered to the Bishop of Bangor. With an appendix, in vindication of a passage in the former letter against Dr. Snape|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R6VbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1717|publisher=Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown, and Timothy Childe, at the White-Hart in St. Paul's Church-Yard.}}</ref>
|Sykes
|Sykes claimed Sherlock had not clarified the differences between what Hoadly now preached and what he (Sherlock) had preached in the past.<ref>Starkie, p. 81; [https://books.google.com/books?id=X5mPUiCAf-QC&pg=PA81 Google Books].</ref>
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|1718
|''A fourth letter to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock, being an answer to his late book, entitled, The Lord Bishop of B's defence of his assertion consider'd''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A fourth letter to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock, being an answer to his late book, entitled, The Lord Bishop of B's defence of his assertion consider'd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-tNftQAACAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1718|publisher=Printed for J. Knapton: and T. Childe}}</ref>
|Sykes
|"...a tenacious, if pedantic, catalogue of charges against Sherlock of malice and misrepresenting Hoadly..."<ref>Starkie, p. 89; [https://books.google.com/books?id=JCCoKtd3WrsC&pg=PA89 Google Books].</ref>
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|1718
|''A Modest Plea for the Baptismal and Scripture-notion of the Trinity. Wherein the Schemes of the Reverend Dr Bennet and Dr Clarke are Compared. Also Two Letters''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A Modest Plea for the Baptismal and Scripture-notion of the Trinity. Wherein the Schemes of the Reverend Dr Bennet and Dr Clarke are Compared. Also Two Letters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UWxAYgEACAAJ|access-date=17 March 2012|date=20 October 2010|publisher=BiblioBazaar|isbn=978-1-170-77701-5}}</ref>
|Sykes
|Sykes was writing in support of [[Samuel Clarke]]'s line on the Trinity, against an attack of 1718 by [[Thomas Bennet (clergyman)|Thomas Bennet]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Bennet|title=A Discourse of the Everblessed Trinity in Unity: With an Examination of Dr. Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V_-jcQAACAAJ|access-date=17 March 2012|date=1 September 2010|publisher=Nabu Press|isbn=978-1-178-19618-4}}</ref> in ''A Discourse of the Ever-Blessed Trinity in Unity'' (1718).<ref>Thomas C. Pfizenmaier, ''The Trinitarian Theology of Dr. Samuel Clarke (1675-1729): Context, sources, and controversy'' (1997), p. 189; [https://books.google.com/books?id=OemH4jKItGQC&pg=PA189 Google Books].</ref>
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|1719
|''The case of Dr. Bentley Regius Professor of Divinity truly stated: Wherein two late pamphlets, entituled The proceedings of the Vice-Chancellor and the University, &c. And A full and impartial account of the late proceedings, &c. are examined''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The case of Dr. Bentley Regius Professor of Divinity truly stated: Wherein two late pamphlets, entituled The proceedings of the Vice-Chancellor and the University, &c. And A full and impartial account of the late proceedings, &c. are examined|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZX5bAAAAQAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1719|publisher=Printed for James Roberts in Warwick Lane}}</ref>
|Anonymous<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1</ref>
|References are to [[Thomas Sherlock]] as vice-chancellor and [[Conyers Middleton]].<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1</ref>
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|1719
|''The case of Dr. Bentley Regius Professor of Divinity farther stated, and vindicated. In answer to A second part of the full and impartial account of the proceedings, &c.''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The case of Dr. Bentley Regius Professor of Divinity farther stated, and vindicated. In answer to A second part of the full and impartial account of the proceedings, &c|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bn5bAAAAQAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1719|publisher=printed for James Roberts}}</ref>
|Anonymous
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|1720
|''The authority of the clergy and the liberties of the laity stated and vindicated. In answer to Mr. Rogers's discourse of the visible and invisible church of Christ.''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The authority of the clergy and the liberties of the laity stated and vindicated. In answer to Mr. Rogers's discourse of the visible and invisible church of Christ.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JH2LPgAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1720|publisher=printed for James Knapton}}</ref>
|Sykes
|The reference is to [[John Rogers (priest, born 1679)|John Rogers]], who wrote ''Discourse of the Visible and Invisible Church of Christ'' in the [[Bangorian controversy]]; Rogers replied in 1722.<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Rogers|title=A Review of a Discourse of the Visible and Invisible Church of Christ, a reply to Mr. Sykes's answer to that discourse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REMVAAAAQAAJ|access-date=9 March 2012|year=1722}}</ref>
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|1721
|''The case of subscription to the XXXIX articles considered. Occasioned by Dr Waterland's Case of Arian subscription''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The case of subscription to the XXXIX articles considered. Occasioned by Dr Waterland's Case of Arian subscription|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNJbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1721|publisher=Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard.}}</ref>
|Anonymous<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
|Reference is to [[Daniel Waterland]].
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|1721
|''A letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham. Occasioned by a late motion made by the Archdeacon of London, at his visitation for the city clergy to return their thanks to his Lordship for his answer to Mr. Whiston''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham. Occasioned by a late motion made by the Archdeacon of London, at his visitation for the city clergy to return their thanks to his Lordship for his answer to Mr. Whiston. By a curate of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v1xUtQAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1721|publisher=Printed for J. Roberts}}</ref>
|A curate of London.<ref>Dictionary, p. 311; [https://books.google.com/books?id=paHSBHrYrfAC&pg=PA311 Google Books].</ref>
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|1722
|''The consequences of the present conspiracy to the Church and State, considered, in a sermon preach'd at the Chapel in King-Street, near Golden Square, upon November 5, 1722''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The consequences of the present conspiracy to the Church and State, considered, in a sermon preach'd at the Chapel in King-Street, near Golden Square, upon November 5, 1722|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aGXLQAAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1722|publisher=J. Knapton}}</ref>
|Sykes
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|1725
|''An essay upon the truth of the Christian religion: wherein its real foundation upon the Old Testament is shewn: Occasioned by The discourse of the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=An essay upon the truth of the Christian religion: wherein its real foundation upon the Old Testament is shewn: Occasioned by The discourse of the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZiItAAAAYAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1725|publisher=Printed for James and John Knapton}}</ref>
|Sykes
|Reply to [[Anthony Collins (philosopher)|Anthony Collins]].
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|1727
|''The true grounds of the expectation of the Messiah. In two letters. The one printed in the London Journal, April the first, 1727. The other in vindication of it. Being a reply to the answer published at the end of a late letter to Dr. Rogers''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The true grounds of the expectation of the Messiah. In two letters. The one printed in the London Journal, April the first, 1727. The other in vindication of it. Being a reply to the answer published at the end of a late letter to Dr. Rogers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ys9bAAAAQAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1727|publisher=printed for J. Peele}}</ref>
|Philalethes
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|1728
|''The duty of love to God, and to our neighbours. A sermon preach'd at the assizes held at Chelmsford in Essex, March 21. 1727-8''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The duty of love to God, and to our neighbours. A sermon preach'd at the assizes held at Chelmsford in Essex, March 21. 1727-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a8IFqAAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1728|publisher=Printed by J. Darby and T. Browne; for Samuel Lobb in Chelmsford}}</ref>
|Sykes
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|1728
|''A sermon preach'd at the assizes held at Brentwood in Essex, August 7. 1728: Before the Right Honourable The Lord Chief Justice Eyre, and Mr. Baron Hale''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A sermon preach'd at the assizes held at Brentwood in Essex, August 7. 1728: Before the Right Honourable The Lord Chief Justice Eyre, and Mr. Baron Hale. By Arthur Ashley Sykes, D.D. Rector of Rayleigh in Essex, and Chantor of the Church of Sarum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3UAtqAAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1728|publisher=printed for James and John Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard}}</ref>
|Sykes
|The references are to [[Sir Robert Eyre]] and [[Sir Bernard Hale]].
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|1730
|''The true foundations of natural and reveal'd religion asserted: Being a reply to the supplement to the treatise entitul'd, The nature, obligation, &c. of the Christian sacraments''<ref name="Sykes1730">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The true foundations of natural and reveal'd religion asserted: Being a reply to the supplement to the treatise entitul'd, The nature, obligation, &c. of the Christian sacraments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YBktAAAAYAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1730|publisher=J. and J. Knapton}}</ref>
|Sykes
|Reply to [[Daniel Waterland]]. [[Thomas Johnson (scholar)|Thomas Johnson]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Johnson|title=An essay on moral obligation: with a view towards settling the controversy, concerning moral and positive duties in answer to two late pamphlets, the one entitled, The true foundation of natural and revealed religion asserted being a reply to the supplement to the treatise on the Christian sacraments, the other [long dash] Some reflections upon the comparative excellency and usefulness of moral and positive duties by Mr. Chubb|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cx5WAAAAYAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1731|publisher=Printed by J.S. for W. Thurlbourn bookseller in Cambridge and sold by J. and J. Knapton ... and J. Stephens}}</ref> replied anonymously to this work and one by [[Thomas Chubb]].<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
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|1730
|''A defence of the answer to the remarks upon Dr. Clarke's exposition of the church-catechism. Wherein the difference between moral and positive duties is fully stated. Being a reply to a pamphlet entitled, The nature, obligation, and efficacy of the sacraments consider'd''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A defence of the answer to the remarks upon Dr. Clarke's exposition of the church-catechism. Wherein the difference between moral and positive duties is fully stated. Being a reply to a pamphlet entitled, The nature, obligation, and efficacy of the sacraments consider'd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IADqpwAACAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1730|publisher=Printed for J. and J. Knapton}}</ref>
|Anonymous<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
|Reply to [[Daniel Waterland]].
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|1730
|''An Answer to the Remarks Upon Dr Clarke's Exposition of the Church-Catechism''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=An Answer to the Remarks Upon Dr Clarke's Exposition of the Church-Catechism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FjgjcAAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|date=24 June 2010|publisher=BiblioBazaar|isbn=978-1-171-14335-2}}</ref>
|Anonymous<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
|Reply to [[Daniel Waterland]].
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|1731
|''An answer to the postscript of the second part of Scripture vindicated. Wherein is shewn, that if reason be not a sufficient guide in matters of religion; the bulk of mankind, for 4000 years, had no sufficient guide at all in matters of religion''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=An answer to the postscript of the second part of Scripture vindicated. Wherein is shewn, that if reason be not a sufficient guide in matters of religion; the bulk of mankind, for 4000 years, had no sufficient guide at all in matters of religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gY4HqAAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1731|publisher=Printed for James and John Knapton}}</ref>
|Anonymous<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
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|1732
|''A dissertation on the eclipse mentioned by Phlegon. Or, an enquiry whether that eclipse had any relation to the darkness which happened at our Saviour's passion''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A dissertation on the eclipse mentioned by Phlegon. Or, an enquiry whether that eclipse had any relation to the darkness which happened at our Saviour's passion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDBcAAAAQAAJ|access-date=17 March 2012|year=1732|publisher=printed for James and John Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard}}</ref>
|Sykes
|On the [[Crucifixion darkness and eclipse]], and [[Phlegon of Tralles]]. The work was provoked by [[William Whiston]], who related in his ''Memoir'' of [[Samuel Clarke]] how Sykes had persuaded Clarke to remove reference to the eclipse in Clarke's published ''Boyle Lectures''; Sykes took the eclipse to be a coincidental natural event, as was the earthquake reported at the Crucifixion, an attitude (Whiston wrote) that was prejudice without proper support.<ref>{{cite book|author=John M. Steele|title=Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon's Motion (1691-1757)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWkVd8Ir3akC&pg=PA23|access-date=17 March 2012|date=31 March 2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4614-2148-1|pages=27}}</ref> Whiston first replied to Sykes in 1732.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Whiston|title=The Testimony Of Phlegon Vindicated: Or, An Account Of the great Darkness and Earthquake at our Savior's Passion, described by Phlegon: Including all the Testimonies, both Heathen and Christian, in the very Words of the original Authors, during the first Six Centuries of Christianity ; With proper Observations on those Testimonies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IscSqAAACAAJ|access-date=17 March 2012|year=1732|publisher=Gyles}}</ref>
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|1733
|''A defence of the dissertation on the eclipse mentioned by Phlegon: wherein is further shewn, that that eclipse had no relation to the darkness which happened at our Saviour's passion: and Mr. Whiston's observations are particularly considered''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A defence of the dissertation on the eclipse mentioned by Phlegon: wherein is further shewn, that that eclipse had no relation to the darkness which happened at our Saviour's passion: and Mr. Whiston's observations are particularly considered|url=https://archive.org/details/b30373670|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1733|publisher=printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street}}</ref>
|Sykes
|The reference is to [[William Whiston]]. In ''A reply to Dr. Sykes's Defence of his dissertation on the eclipse mentioned by Phlegon'', one of his ''Six Dissertations'' (1734) dealing with Sykes's claim, Whiston mentions the [[secular acceleration of the Moon]], as studied by [[Edmond Halley]]; this astronomical sidelight in a theological controversy was picked up only by [[George Costard]] at the time.<ref name="Steele2012">{{cite book|author=John M. Steele|title=Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon's Motion (1691-1757)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWkVd8Ir3akC&pg=PA23|access-date=17 March 2012|date=31 March 2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4614-2148-1|pages=23}}</ref>
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|1734
|''A second defence of the dissertation upon the eclipse mentioned by Phlegon: wherein Mr. Chapman's objections, and those of the A. of the letter to Dr. Sykes, are particularly considered''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A second defence of the dissertation upon the eclipse mentioned by Phlegon: wherein Mr. Chapman's objections, and those of the A. of the letter to Dr. Sykes, are particularly considered|url=https://archive.org/details/b30359375|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1734|publisher=Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton}}</ref>
|Sykes
|One reply to the first work on Phlegon was anonymous (1733);<ref>{{cite book|title=Phlegon's testimony shewn to relate to the darkness which happened at our Saviour's passion: In a letter to Dr. Sykes..|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EopbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=17 March 2012|year=1733|publisher=printed for S. Wilmot in Oxford: and sold by Messieurs Knaptons, W. Innys, T. Astley, and J. Crownfield in St. Paul's Church-Yard; C. Hitch and J. Batley in Paternoster-Row; and B. Motte in Fleet-Street.}}</ref> the author's name has been given as Douglass.<ref>Dictionary, vol.3 col. 1904; [https://archive.org/stream/adictionaryanon01laingoog#page/n82/mode/2up archive.org].</ref> The other reference is to [[John Chapman (theologian)|John Chapman]], who published works in the controversy in 1734 and 1735.<ref>{{cite book|author=John Chapman|title=Phlegon examined critically and impartially: In answer to the late Dissertation and Defence of Dr. Sykes. To which is added a postscript, explaining a passage in Tertullian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNJbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=17 March 2012|year=1734|publisher=printed at the University Press for Cornelius Crownfield: and John Crownfield, at the Rising Sun in St. Paul's Church-Yard. London.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=John Chapman|title=Phlegon re-examined:: in answer to Dr. Sykes's Second defense of his dissertation concerning Phlegon. To which is added a postscript, concerning the Chronicon paschale|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HYpbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=17 March 2012|year=1735|publisher=printed at the University-Press for Cornelius Crownfield: and John Crownfield, at the Rising-Sun in St. Paul's Church-Yard. London.}}</ref>
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|1734
|''The reasons {{notatypo|alle|dged}} against Dr. Rundle's promotion to the See of Glocester, seriously and dispassionately considered: in a letter to a member of Parliament for the county of —''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The reasons {{notatypo|alle|dged}} against Dr. Rundle's promotion to the See of Glocester, seriously and dispassionately considered: in a letter to a member of Parliament for the county of —|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S9pbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1734|publisher=Printed for J. Roberts}}</ref>
|By a gentleman of the Temple
|Reply by [[Isaac Maddox]], as "A clergyman in the country".<ref>{{cite book|author=Isaac Maddox|title=The case of Dr. Rundle's promotion to the See of Glocester impartially considered: or, Some remarks on a late pamphlet entituled The reasons {{notatypo|alle|dged}} against Dr. Rundle's promotion to the See of Glocester seriously and dispassionately considered, in a letter to a member of parliament, &c|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLrlGwAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1734|publisher=Printed for T. Cooper}}</ref><ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
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|1735
|''Some further considerations on the reasons {{notatypo|alle|dged}} against Dr. Rundle's promotion to the See of Glocester: in a second letter to a member of parliament for the County of —''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=Some further considerations on the reasons {{notatypo|alle|dged}} against Dr. Rundle's promotion to the See of Glocester: in a second letter to a member of parliament for the County of —|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ohRFAAAAYAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1735|publisher=Printed for J. Roberts}}</ref>
|A Gentleman of the Temple
|The reference is to [[Thomas Rundle]].
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|1736
|''The corporation and test acts shewn to be of no importance to the Church of England''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The corporation and test acts shewn to be of no importance to the Church of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ukX6pwAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1736|publisher=Printed for J. Roberts}}</ref>
|Anonymous<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
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|1737
|''An enquiry into the meaning of Demoniacks in the New Testament''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=An enquiry into the meaning of Demoniacks in the New Testament|url=https://archive.org/details/enquiryintomeani00syke|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1737|publisher=printed for J. Roberts}}</ref>
|T.P.A.P.O.A.B.I.T.C.O.S. (i.e. The Precentor And Prebendary Of Alton-Borealis In The Church Of Sarum).
|This and the sequel had a reply<ref>{{cite book|author=John Swinton|title=A Critical Dissertation Concerning the Words ΔΑΊΜΩΝ and ΔΑΙΜΌΝΙΟΝ; Occasion'd by Two Late Enquiries Into the Meaning of Demoniacks in the New|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jln6QwAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|date=January 2010|publisher=General Books LLC|isbn=978-1-152-01393-3}}</ref> that has been attributed to [[John Swinton (orientalist)|John Swinton]]<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref> and [[George Costard]].<ref>DNB</ref> Another anonymous reply<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Church|title=An essay towards vindicating the literal sense of the demoniacks in the New Testament in answer to a late enquiry into the meaning of them|url=https://archive.org/details/anessaytowardsv00churgoog|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1737}}</ref> was by [[Thomas Church (clergyman)|Thomas Church]].<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
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|1737
|''A further enquiry into the meaning of Demoniacks in the New Testament. Wherein the enquiry is vindicated against the objections of the Revd. Mr. Twells, and of the author of The Essay in answer to it''<ref>{{cite book|title=A further enquiry into the meaning of Demoniacks in the New Testament. Wherein the enquiry is vindicated against the objections of the Revd. Mr. Twells, and of the author of The Essay in answer to it|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1MxbAAAAQAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1737|publisher=Printed for J. Roberts}}</ref>
|Anonymous
|The reference is to [[Leonard Twells]]. Other publications in the controversy were by [[Samuel Pegge]] and [[Thomas Hutchinson (scholar)|Thomas Hutchinson]].<ref>{{cite book|author=H. C. Erik Midelfort|title=Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the demons of eighteenth-century Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B9bg3g0T2HAC&pg=PA180|access-date=23 March 2012|date=28 July 2005|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-10669-5|pages=180–}}</ref>
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|1740
|''Principles and connexion of natural and revealed religion distinctly considered''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=Principles and connexion of natural and revealed religion distinctly considered|url=https://archive.org/details/principlesconnex00syke|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1740|publisher=J. and P. Knapton}}</ref>
|Sykes
|On prophecy and miracles, two central topics of the apologetics of the time, it took the view that prophecy is more convincing; this position was unorthodox and was criticised.<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael A. Stewart|title=Studies in the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LVf44bRmDkMC&pg=PA197|access-date=25 May 2013|year=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-824966-5|page=197 note 17}}</ref>
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|1742
|''A Brief Discourse Concerning the Credibility of Miracles and Revelation: To which is added, a postscript in answer to the Lord Bishop of Lichfield's charge to his clergy''<ref>[https://archive.org/details/briefdiscourseco00syke archive.org.]</ref><ref name="Sykes2010">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A Brief Discourse Concerning the Credibility of Miracles and Revelation: To which Is Added, a Postscript in Answer to the Lord Bishop of Lichfield's|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=69r3kQAACAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|date=August 2010|publisher=Nabu Press|isbn=978-1-178-16564-7}}</ref>
|Sykes
|The Bishop of Lichfield at the time was [[Richard Smalbroke]].
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|1744
|''An examination of Mr. Warburton's account of the conduct of the antient legislators : of the double doctrine of the old philosophers, of the theocracy of the Jews, and of Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology''<ref>[https://archive.org/details/cu31924102766098 archive.org.]</ref>
|Sykes
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|1746
|''An enquiry how far Papists ought to be treated here as good subjects: and, how far they are chargeable with the tenets commonly imputed to them''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=An enquiry how far Papists ought to be treated here as good subjects: and, how far they are chargeable with the tenets commonly imputed to them|url=https://archive.org/details/enquiryhowfarpap00sykeuoft|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1746|publisher=Printed for J. and P. Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street.}}</ref>
|Anonymous<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
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|1746
|''A Defence of the Examination of Mr. Warburton's account of the theocracy of the Jews, being an answer to his remarks, so far as they concern Dr. Sykes,...''<ref name="Sykes1746">{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=A Defence of the Examination of Mr. Warburton's account of the theocracy of the Jews, being an answer to his remarks, so far as they concern Dr. Sykes,...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQW9XwAACAAJ|access-date=15 March 2012|year=1746|publisher=P. Knapton}}</ref>
|Sykes
|The title refers to [[William Warburton]]'s ''[[The Divine Legation of Moses]]''. [[John Towne]] (anonymous<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>), supported by Warburton, attempted to cap off the controversy in 1748.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/acriticalinquiry00townuoft ''A critical inquiry into the opinions and practice of the ancient philosophers, concerning the nature of the soul and a future state, and their method of the double doctrine'' (1748)]</ref>
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|1748
|''An Essay on the Nature, Design, and Origin, of Sacrifices''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=An Essay on the Nature, Design, and Origin, of Sacrifices|year=1748|url=https://archive.org/details/anessayonnature00sykegoog|access-date=16 March 2012|publisher=BiblioLife|isbn=978-1-170-58461-3}}</ref>
|Anonymous<ref>Dictionary, vol. 1.</ref>
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|1748
|''English liberty in some cases worse than French slavery: exemplified by animadversions upon the tyrannical and anti-constitutional power of the justices of the peace, commissioners of excise, customs, and land-tax, &c. containing methods made use of in raising the land-tax of this kingdom, compared with the Taillé and Taillon, the most oppressive in France''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Arthur Ashley Sykes|author2=Philalethes Philalethes|title=English Liberty in Some Cases Worse Than French Slavery|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z1rPygAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|date=August 2011|publisher=BiblioBazaar|isbn=978-1-178-53354-5}}</ref>
|Anonymous, signed Philalethes
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|1756
|''The Scripture Doctrine of the Redemption of Man by Jesus Christ: In Two Parts''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=The Scripture Doctrine of the Redemption of Man by Jesus Christ: In Two Parts (1756)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JPlqRQAACAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|date=February 2010|publisher=Kessinger Publishing, LLC|isbn=978-1-160-02165-4}}</ref>
|Sykes
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|1857 edition
|''An enquiry when the resurrection of the body, or flesh, was first inserted into the public creeds''<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Ashley Sykes|title=An enquiry when the resurrection of the body, or flesh, was first inserted into the public creeds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=stYCAAAAQAAJ|access-date=16 March 2012|year=1857}}</ref>
|Translated by his brother G. Sykes
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==References==
*[[Samuel Halkett]], [[Catherine Laing]], [[John Laing (author)|John Laing]], [[Henry Benjamin Wheatley]], ''A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain'' (1882)
*{{cite book|author=Andrew Starkie|title=The Church of England and the Bangorian Controversy, 1716-1721|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X5mPUiCAf-QC|access-date=15 March 2012|year=2007|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-84383-288-1}}
==Notes==
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