Werke: Babilons defence broken down and one of antichrists warriours defeated, in an answer to a scandalous pamphlet intituled, the Quaker-Jesuit, or, Popery in Quakerisme. Put forth by one William Brownsword, who calls himself minister of the Gospel at Kendal (...). In which the doctrines of the Quakers (...) are more truly stated than he hath stated them (...). With a few queries to him concerning those doctrines and practices in which he hath compared us with the Papists. London 1660; A short discovery of certain truths of God, according as they are revealed through the manifestation of the eternal light of the Son of righteousnesse, which are, a reply against two things in an epistle, and, an answer to certain queries contained in a book, intituled Christian queries, to quaking Christians, subscribed by one J. B. Also queries propounded, to be answered by the authour of the same book, or any other. (London) 1664. Ann Arbor 1977 (Early English Books, 1641-1700, 729,2).

Lit. (Auswahl): Bullock, Jeffery: A testimony against the 66 judges called Quakers, who writ an epistle (as they call it) against John Story and John Wilkinson and those that joyned with them. Subscribed by the said 66 judges, which is here inserted, with an answer thereto subscribed by 67 of the said people, published to this end, that all may take notice how the spirit of antichrist hath entred into the Quakers teachers in this our age and generation. (London) (1680); - Pearson, John: Antichristian treachery discovered, and its way block'd up, in a clear distinction betwixt the Christian apostolical spirit, and the spirit of the antichristian apostate, being an answer to a book put forth by William Rogers, falsely called, the Christian Quaker distinguished from the apostate and innovator. Shewing, the backsliding state of him and the said William Rogers (and them of party with him) from the Gospel spirit, the life of truth, and the first love, wherein he, tother (sic!) with John Story and John Wilkinson (as principally concerned in an apostate work) have set themselves in opposition to evangelical church-care, and have asperced and abusively slandered the instruments which God hath made use of touching the same. In three parts. (London) (1680); - Wilkinson, John: The memory of that servant of God, John Story, revived shewing what manner of man he was from his youth to his grave, by the testimonies of several friends, to whom he was well known, and by whom, for his work sake in the truth, he was greatly beloved, to which is adjoyned something written by him, etc., in his latter years, wherein his judgment is shewn concerning some particular things, and his great desires for love, unity, concord, and peace in the church of Christ. London 1683. London 1688. Ann Arbor 1978 (Early English Books, 1641-1700, 795,19); - Camm, Thomas: The line of truth and true judgment stretched over the heads of falshood and deceit, in a short, yet serious examination of a printed book entituled (The memory of that servant of God John Story, revived) subscribed in parts by serveral persons therein named. Wherein their hypocricy deceit in applauding him is manifested and detected, and their groundless clamour and calumnies agaist (sic!) order and discipline amongst God's people rebuked. Together with a short account of what the seperate meeting in Westmorland (that the said J. S. and J. W. were the principal authors of) is come to. London 1684. Ann Arbor 1982 (Early English Books, 1641-1700, 1249,2); - Rogers, William: A second scourge for George Whitehead, an apostate Quaker, in a poem. Wherein truth is vindicated, and the memory of John Story, once more revived, as a proper testimony, against that impious book, falsely intituled the line of truth, written in defamation of his memory, and in favour of that false church, whereof George Fox is reputed head. O.O. 1685; - John Wilkinson and John Story. In: Ferguson, Richard S.: Early Cumberland and Westmorland Friends. A series of biographical sketches of early members of the Society of Friends in those counties. London 1871, 63-65; - Hudson Winthrop S.: A suppressed chapter in Quaker history. In: The Journal of Religion, XXIV, 2, 1944, 108-118; - Story, John. In: Allibone, Samuel Austin: A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century. Containing thirty thousand biographies and literary notices, with forty indexes of subjects, II. Philadelphia 1872, 2273. ND Detroit 1965, 2273; - Braithwaite, William: The second period of Quakerism. London 1919; - Ng, Su Fang: Marriage and discipline. The place of women in early Quaker controversies. In: Seventeenth Century, XVIII, 1, 2003, 113-140; - Leachman, Caroline L.: Story, John (d. 1681). In: ODNB, LII, 2004, 958-959.

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