JOSEPH, an English theological writer of considerable ingenuity, of whom very little is known, was born either at Gedling or Stoke, in Nottinghamshire, in April 1631. After completing his school education he entered Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he had the gentle and modest Tillotson for a fellow-student. On leaving college he was inducted to the living of Cromwell, but refusing to read the Book of Common Prayer, he was obliged to resign in 1662. He was the author of three uncouth, rugged little treatises, marked by great acuteness and a singular power of subtle analysis. They are entitled, The Great Propitiation, 1669; An Endeavour to Correct some prevailing Opinious contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England, 1671; and his Discourse of Natural and Moral Impotency, in 1671. A new edition of his works was published in 1834, with a "Biographical Introduction" by Henry Rogers. Truman, who resided for some years at Mansfield, died at the house of a friend at Sutton, in Bedfordshire, on the 29th of July 1671.