Davenport, Christopher, an Knglfah Roosaiai divine, was bom at Coventry about 1598^ and was acac to Merton College, Oxford, at 15, bnt was perraade4 at 17 by a priest to go to the Romanist coH^ce ^ Douai, France, and thence to Tpres. Here he becaae a Romanist and a Franciscan. Under the name at Franciscns a Sancta Clara he came as a misstonaij ts England, and was made chaplain to Henrietta Marii consort of Charles I. Davenport was a man of lesrs- ing and of good address, and he labored xealonsly tai successfully for the cause of Some. On the detth of Charles I he went abroad, and only appeared ic England in disguise until the restoration of Charks IL when he became chaplain of queen Catharine and |»«> vincial of the English Franciscans. He died Bfar St 1680. Among his writings are, Pcuxq>hrcutica Expcsh tio Ardculorwn Conf Anglicana (1635; new traitfL Lond. 1865) ; Deus, Natwra^ Gratia (1635) ; both vwt? aiming to show that the English Articles are not ra3> ly hostile to Rome.^iVev Gen, Biog. DicL Iv, 8^.
Davenport, John (elder brother of Christof4ier\ an eminent Congregational minister, was bora at Cor- entry, England, 1597. He was sent to Mertea C<^ lege, Oxford, 1613, and, after passing BJk., he entned the ministry at nineteen. Having served a short tmt
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HOton Castle as chaplain, he became rector of St. «plien'8 Church, London. After an interview with r. John Cotton he became a Nonconformist, and, to cape bishop Land, he fled to Holland in 1638. In •85 lie returned to London, and sailed for Boston, A88. y where he arrived June 26, 1687. With a num- ir of others he sailed on March 80, 1638, for Quinipiac, yyr New Haven. In 1689 a Church was formed, and 1 August 22 Mr. Davenport was installed pastor. He as ordained, with Mr. James Allen as colleague, pas- »r of the First Church, Boston, Dec. 9, 1668, and died [ay 15, 1672. He published IrutrucUons to the Elders *" the JSyHsh Church (1684) ; BqHfH of some Proceed- \gs ce^adnslJohn Paget (1^); Allegations of Scripture jcunst the Bctptizing of some kind of Infants (1684); o^ecAism concerning the d^ief Heads of the Christian ^eH^^icn (Lond. 1659) ; and a number of occasional ser- ious.— Sprague, Annals, i, 94 ; New Gen, Biog, Diet, r, 325.
IDa'^vid (Heb. Damd", ni-J [in the full form, *T«5^, 1 1 Kings iii, 14, and in Chron., Ezra, Neh., Cant., Cos., Amos, Ezek. xxziv, 28, and Zech.], affectionate r beloved; Arab, in common use Ddoud ; Sept. AavtSj r. T. Aajiid, older MSS. AavuS ; Joseph. Aovt^i^c), be second but most prominent of the line of Jewish lings. The following biography is chiefly compiled rom the articles in Kitto's Cyclop, and Smith's Diet, fthe Bible.
A. Personal Biography. — ^The authorities for the life •f I>avid may be divided into the following classes : I.) The original Hebrew authorities : (1.) The narra- ive of 1 Sam. xvi, to 1 Kings ii, 10 ; with the supple-
(3.) The Rabbinical traditions reported in Basnage, Hist, des Juifs^ lib. v, c. 2 ; Calmet's Dictionary, s. v. David. (V.) The Mussulman traditions, chiefly re- markable for their extravagance, are contained in the Koran, ii, 260-252; xxxviii, 20-24; xxi, 79-82; xxii, 15, and explained in Lane's Selections from the Koran, p. 228-242 ; or amplified in Weil's L^ends, Eng. tr. p. 152-170. (VI.) In modem times his life has been of- ten treated, both in separate treatises and in histories of Israel. Many of the monographs on almost every point in his life will be found referred to l>elow. In English, the best known are, Delany's Hist. Account (Lond. 1741-2, 8 vols.). Chandler's Life (Lond. 1766, 2 vols. ; new edit Lond. 1858), and Bkikie, David King of Israel (London, 1856) ; in French, De Choisi's, and Uiat in Bayle's Dictionary, One of the most recent, and, in some respects, the best treatment, is that in Ewald's GeschichU des Volkes Israel, iii, 71-257. See also Kitto, Daily BiUe Ilhutraiions, vol. ii. Other treatises on his tifs as a whole, or on the several inci- dents of it, are referred to in Darling's Cyclopadia, iii, 290 sq.
David's life may be divided into the three following portions, more or less corresponding to the three old lost biographies by Samuel, Gad, and Nathan : I. His youth before his introduction to the court of Saul. II. His relations with Saul. III. His reign.
I. The early life ofDaxAd contains in many import- ant respects the antecedents of his after history. 1. His &mily are mostly well known to us by name, and are not without bearing on his subsequent career. For an extended view of David's lineage, see Gem&aloot OF Chbist.
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Zabadlah (IChron.zxvfl,7).
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