Author:Joseph Trapp (1679–1747)

Joseph Trapp
(1679–1747)

Joseph Trapp

Works

• Fraus Nummi Anglicani: Anno 1696 in "Musarum Anglicanarum analecta" (1699), volume 2, pp. 255-259
• Ædes Badmintonianæ (1701)
• Prologue to the University of Oxford. Spoke by Mr. Betterton (1703)
• The Tragedy of King Saul. Written by a Deceas'd Person of Honour (1703), is sometimes attributed to Trapp
• The mischiefs of changes in government, and the influence of religious princes to prevent them: a sermon preach'd before the Mayor and corporation of Oxford (1705)
• An Ordinary Journey no Progress (1710)
• The true genuine Tory Address and the true genuine Whig Address set one against another (1710)
• Most faults on one side, or, The shallow politicks, foolish arguing and villanous designs of the author of a late pamphlet entitul'd Faults on both sides (1711)
• Prælectiones Poeticæ (1711)
• The Church and Monarchy secur'd, by the return of his Grace the Duke of Ormonde, and the change of the late Ministry (1711)
• To Mr. Harley on his appearing in Publick after the Wound from Guiscard (1712)
• Her Majesty's Prerogative in Ireland (1712)
• Peace, a Poem, (1713)
• Duties of Private, Domestic, and Public Devotion.
• Real Nature of Church and Kingdom of Christ (1717)
• In Obitum Serenissimæ Regnæ Annæ & Augustissi Regis Georgii Inaugurationem in "Musarum Anglicanarum analecta" (1717), volume 3, pp. 62-65
• Preservative against unsettled Notions and Want of Principles in Religion
  • Volume I (1715)
  • Volume II (1722)
• Popery truly stated and briefly confuted, (1726)
• The Church of England defended against the Church of Rome, in Answer to a late Sophistical and Insolent Popish Book. (1727)
• Doctrine of the Trinity briefly stated and proved. Moyer Lectures, 1729 and 1730 (1730)
• Thoughts upon the four last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell. A Poem in four parts (1734)
• The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger of Being Righteous Over-much (1739)
• The True Spirit of the Methodists and their Allies: in Answer to six out of the seven Pamphlets against Dr Trapp's Sermons (1740)
• Lectures on Poetry (1742)
• Concio ad clerum Londinensem (1743)
• Explanatory Notes upon the Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles (1747)
• Sermons on Moral and Practical Subjects (1752)

Plays

Abramule: or Love and Empire. A Tragedy (1704)

Translations

• Æneis by Virgil
  • Volume I (1718)
  • Volume II (1720)
• Paradisus Amissus Latine redditus, by John Milton
  • Volume I (1741)
  • Volume II (1744)

Works about Trapp

• "Trapp, Joseph," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.