{"id":94183,"date":"2022-09-29T17:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wilkins-john-d-d\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:30:37","slug":"wilkins-john-d-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wilkins-john-d-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkins, John, D.D"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wilkins, John, D.D<\/h2>\n<p>an ingenious and learned, English bishop, was born at Fawsley, near Daventry, Northamptonshire, in 1614. He was educated at. All Saints, at New Inn Hall, and at Magdalen Hall, Oxford; took holy orders; became chaplain, first to William, lord Say, and then to Charles, count Palatine of the Rhine; took sides with the Parliament under Cromwell, and took the Solemn League and Covenant; was made warden of Wadham College in 1648; became master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1659; ejected at the Restoration the following year; became preacher to the honorable society of Gray&#8217;s Inn and rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, London; was chosen a member of the Royal Society; was made dean of Rip-on; became bishop of Chester&#8217; in 1668i and died at the house of Dr. Tillotson, in Chancery Lane, London, Nov. 19, 1672. He published several mathematical and philosophical works, and the following, viz., Ecclesiastes, or a Discourse concerning the Gift of Preaching as it Falls under the Rules of Art (1646; best ed. 1778):  Discourse concerning the Beauty of Providence in all the Rugged Passages of It (1649):  Sermons, etc. (1675): Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion (eod.).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilkins, John, D.D an ingenious and learned, English bishop, was born at Fawsley, near Daventry, Northamptonshire, in 1614. He was educated at. All Saints, at New Inn Hall, and at Magdalen Hall, Oxford; took holy orders; became chaplain, first to William, lord Say, and then to Charles, count Palatine of the Rhine; took sides with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wilkins-john-d-d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wilkins, John, D.D&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}