William Freke
English mystical writer (1662–1744) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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William Freke (1662–1744) was an English mystical writer, of Wadham College, Oxford and barrister of the Middle Temple.[1]
Freke first comes to attention as a Socinian Unitarian who suffered at the hands of Parliament in 1694 for his anti-Trinitarian beliefs, and later recanted. William Freke sent his Brief but Clear Confutation of the Doctrine of the Trinity to both Houses of Parliament, was fined and the book burnt.[2] The same happened the next year to John Smith (1695), a clockmaker who had written a similar pamphlet.
In 1703 he published Lingua Tersancta. Or, a Most Sure and Compleat Allegorick Dictionary to the Holy Language of the Spirit. Presumably unbalanced, Freke proclaimed himself the great Elijah in 1709.