Historia
DANSON, THOMAS († 1694)
Se casó con la hija del doctor Tobias Garbrand, ministro disidente de Abingdon. William Jenkyns, en la introducción a su Celeusma, lo califica como 'vir doctissimus, totus rei domus zelo ardens'; y Wood dice que 'si su educación juvenil hubiera sido entre personas ortodoxas y sus principios consecuentes, podría haber hecho más servicio a la Iglesia de Inglaterra que a los no conformistas.'
Sus obras son: The Quakers Folly made Manifest to all Men, Londres, 1659; The Quakers Wisdom descendeth not from above, Londres, 1659; A Synopsis of Quakerism; or a Collection of the Fundamental Errours of the Quakers, Londres, 1668; Vindiciae Veritatis; or an Impartial Account of two late Disputations between Mr. Danson and Mr. [Jeremiah] Ives, upon this question, viz. Whether the Doctrine of some true Believers, final Apostacy, be true or not?, Londres, 1672. En el mismo año se publicó con el título A Contention for Truth, el relato de dos disputas entre Danson e Ives sobre la cuestión Whether the Doctrine of some true Believers, falling away totally from Grace, be true or no?; Kleptoi teteremenoi, or the Saints Perseverance asserted and vindicated; occasioned by two Conferences upon that point, published by Mr. Ives, Londres, 1672; A friendly Debate between Satan and Sherlock, containing a Discovery of the Unsoundness of Mr. William Sherlock's Principles in a late book entitled A Discourse concerning the Knowledge of Jesus Christ [Londres], 1676; De Causa Dei; a Vindication of the common Doctrine of Protestant Divines concerning Predestination... from the inviduous consequences with which it is burden'd by Mr. John Howe in a late Letter and Postscript of God's Prescience, Londres, 1678; A friendly Conference between a Paulist and a Galatian, in defence of the Apostolical Doctrine of Justification of Faith without works, Londres, 1694.