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 D. Sergeantii circa doctrinam in libris suis contentam exhibita Sacræ Congregationi … Cardinalium in universa Christiana Republica contra hæreticam pravitatem Generalium Inquisitorum: appendix seu querimonia J. Sergeantii adversus M. Lominum [i.e. Peter Talbot, catholic archbishop of Dublin] …’ Douay, 1677, 8vo. 17. ‘Vindiciæ J. Sergeantii tribunalibus Romano et Parisiensi, ubi ab illmo P. Talboto … de doctrina prava accusatus fuit, in librorum suorum defensionem exhibitæ’ [Douay], 1678, 8vo. 18. ‘A Letter to the D.[ean] of P. [St. Paul's, i.e. Dr. E. Stillingfleet] in Answer to the arguing part of his first Letter to Mr. G.[odden]’ (anon.) London, 1687, 4to; a reply to this was published anonymously by Clement Ellis, M.A. 19. ‘A Second Catholic Letter; or, Reflections on the Reflecter [Clement Ellis]'s Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet's First Letter to Mr. G[odden] against the Answer to the arguing part of it’ (anon.), London, 1687, 4to. 20. ‘A Third Catholic Letter in answer to the arguing Part of Dr. Stillingfleet's Second Letter’ (anon.), London, 1687, 4to. 21. ‘The Fourth Catholick Letter in answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermon preach'd at Guild-hall, Nov. 27, 1687, entituled Scripture & Tradition compared; addrest to his Auditory,’ London, 1688, 4to. 22. ‘The Fifth Catholic Letter in reply to Dr. Stillingfleet's (pretended) Answer to about the Fortieth Part of J. S.'s Catholic Letters, addrest to all impartial Readers,’ London, 1688, 4to. 23. ‘A Letter to [William Wake] the Continuator of the Present State of our Controversy. Laying open the Folly of his extravagant Boasting, and the Malice of his Willfull Forgeries’ [1688?]. 24. ‘The Sixth Catholick Letter, laying open the Folly of the Continuator's extravagant Boasting, and the Malice of his wilful Forgeries. In which also the Accounts between J. S.'s two Adversaries, Dr. Stillingfleet and Dr. Tillotson, are cast up’ [London, 1688], 4to. 25. ‘The Schism of the Church of England, &c. demonstrated in four Arguments. Formerly propos'd to Dr. Gunning and Dr. Pearson, the late Bishops of Ely and Chester, by two Catholick Disputants in a celebrated Conference upon that Point’ (anon.), Oxford, 1688, 4to. 26. A second answer to Tillotson's ‘Rule of Faith,’ London, 1688, 8vo, partly printed but never published. 27. ‘The Method to Science. By J. S.,’ London, 1696, 8vo. 28. ‘Solid Philosophy asserted against the Fancies of the Ideists: or the Method to Science farther illustrated. With Reflexions on Mr. Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding. By J. S.,’ London, 1697, 8vo. Mr. James Crossley, F.S.A., says: ‘I have Locke's copy of Sergeant's ‘Solid Philosophy asserted,’ the margins of which are filled with answers in Locke's autograph to the animadversions contained in that book. It is somewhat strange that neither these nor his manuscript notes on the pamphlets of Thomas Burnett of the Charterhouse, written against the “Essay on the Human Understanding,” which are also in my possession, have ever been published or noticed by his biographers’ (, Diary, ii. 193n.). 29. ‘Raillery defeated by calm Reasoning,’ London, 1699, 12mo. 30. ‘Transnatural Philosophy, or Metaphysicks: demonstrating the Essences and Operations of all Beings whatever, which gives the Principles to all other Sciences. And shewing the perfect Conformity of Christian Faith to Right Reason, and the Unreasonableness of Atheists, Deists, Antitrinitarians, and other Sectaries. By J. S.,’ London, 1700, 8vo; 2nd edit. London, 1706, 8vo. 31. ‘The Literary Life of John Sergeant. Written by Himself in Paris, 1700, at the Request of the Duke of Perth,’ London, 1816, 8vo, edited by John Kirk, D.D. 32. ‘An Account of the Chapter erected by William [Bishop] titular Bishop of Chalcedon, and Ordinary of England and Scotland,’ 16mo; reprinted, with preface and notes by William Barclay Turnbull, London, 1853, 8vo. 33. ‘Transactions relating to the English Secular Clergy,’ 1706. 34. ‘The Jesuit's Gospel,’ a pamphlet which was repudiated by the whole of the catholic clergy (, iii. 619). ‘Schism Unmask'd,’ 1658, is ascribed to Sergeant by Dolman, but the real author was the jesuit father, John Percy (cf., Popery Tracts).

Among those who published replies to works by Sergeant were Hammond, Bramhall, Pierce, Casaubon, Taylor, Stillingfleet, Whitby, Tillotson, Wilkins, Poole, Gataker, W. Falkner, Clement Ellis, and George Hughes.

[Addit. MS. 5880, f. 189; Birch's Life of Tillotson, pp. 33, 34, 35, 371, 409; Bodleian Cat.; Bonney's Life of Jeremy Taylor, p. 349; Bramhall's Works (1842), Life, pp. xxviii, xxix, vol. ii. p. 358 n.; Catholicon (1816), ii. 129–36, 169–176, 217–24, iii. 9–16, 55–64, 97–104, 121–7, 248; Commons' Journals, ix. 710, 711; Dodd's Church Hist. iii. 472; Foulis's Romish Treasons and Usurpations, pref. p. vii; Gillow's Bibl. Dict. iv. 49; Halkett and Laing's Dict. of Anonymous Lit.; Pref. to Hickes's Devotions in the Ancient Way of Offices, 2nd edit. 1701; Jones's Popery Tracts, p. 484; Panzani's Memoirs, pp. xiv, 93 n. 326 n. 382, 384; Sergeant's Literary Life, 1816; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 496, iv. 1053, 1055.] 