STILL ENGINE: see INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES. STILLINGFLEET, EDWARD , English divine, was born at Cranborne, Dorset, on April 17, 1635. He graduated from St. John's college, Cambridge, in 1652, and in the following year was elected to a fellowship. At Sutton, Beds., of which he was vicar, he published (1659) his Irenicum in which he sought to give expression to the prevailing weariness of the faction between Episcopacy and Presbyterianism, and to find some compromise. He looks upon the form of church government as non-essential, but condemns Nonconformity. Although in 168o he published his Unreasonableness of Separation, his willing ness to serve on the ecclesiastical commission of 1689, and the in terpretation he then proposed of the damnatory clauses of the Athanasian creed, are proof that to the end he leaned towards toleration. His rapid promotion dates from 1662, when he pub lished Origines sacrae, or a Rational Account of the Christian Faith as to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Scriptures and the Matters therein contained. In 1665 the earl of Southampton presented him to St. Andrew's, Holborn, two years later he be came prebendary of St. Paul's, in 1668 chaplain to Charles II., in 167o canon residentiary, and in 1678 dean of St. Paul's. He
was also preacher at the Rolls Chapel and reader at the Temple. Finally he was consecrated bishop of Worcester on Oct. 13, 1689. During these years he was ceaselessly engaged in controversy with Nonconformists, Romanists, Deists and Socinians. His various learning, his dialectical expertness, and his massive judgment, rendered him a formidable antagonist ; but the respect enter tained for him by his opponents was chiefly aroused by his recog nized love of truth. The range of his learning is most clearly seen in his Bishop's Right to Vote in Parliament in Cases Capital. His Origines Britannicae, or Antiquities of the British Church (1685), is a strange mixture of critical and uncritical research. In his closing years he had some controversy with John Locke, whom he considered to have impugned the doctrine of the Trinity. He died at Westminster on March 28, 1699. His manuscripts were bought by Robert Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford.
A collected edition of his works, with life by Richard Bentley, was published in London, 6 vols. (171o) ; and a useful edition of The Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome Truly Represented was published in 1845 by William Cunningham.