Micaiah Towgood is the author of A Dissent from the Church of England, Fully Justified; Being The Dissenting Gentleman's Three Letters in Answer to the Letters of The Rev. John White... as well as a number of similar religious works.

Towgood's rarest and most sought after work is surely, A True Idea of the Character and Reign of King Charles the First, and The True Causes of The Civil War, published in 1748. This lengthy tract was considered controversial even 100 years after that king's untimely demise.

Micaiah Towgood was a Dissenting minister in Exeter, and an avowed Arian

Arianism

Arianism is the theological teaching attributed to Arius , a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of the entities of the Trinity and the precise nature of the Son of God as being a subordinate entity to God the Father...

. He corresponded with John Wesley

John Wesley

John Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...

, and in 1755, John and Charles Wesley read together Towgood's "A Gentleman's Reasons for his Dissent from the Church of England", in preparation for their Conference at Leeds. Wesley described it as "an elaborate and lively tract."