Duneter, Henrt, a Congregational minister, the place and date of whose birth are unknown. He was a native of England, and was a student at Emanuel Col- lege, Cambridge, where he became B. A. 1680, and M. A. 1684. He fled to New England on account of his non- conformity in 1640, and was appointed president of Harvard, being the first master of the college tailed president, Aug. 27, 1640. He filled the chair untU 1G54, when he resigned on account of his views in re- gard to infant baptism. He spent the remainder of his life in the ministry at Scituate, where he died Feb. 27, 1659.— Sprague, Annals, i, 125.
Dunton, John, a bookseller and miscellaneous writer, was bom at Graffham, Huntingdonshire, in 1659. After being In business some twenty years as a bookseller, he failed, and then devoted himself to authorship. He died in 1788. His principal works ire. The DeviTs Martyrs ; to vMch is addtd the Higk- 1
ChMTch Martyrology (Lond. 1716^ 8vo):-idl acle, and young Studenfs Library (Looi ITHif 8vo):— rA« Hasard of a DeaArhed RgfoSaa^ 8vo), etc— Darling, Cydoptmba BUtSeyt^ka.
Dttn'^ody, SikicrsL, a minister of & 1 Episcopal Church, was bom in Cheeter ( Aug. 8^ 1780. In 1806 he entered the i istry in the South Carolina Confefeace, lai ill he organized the first Methodist Cfanrdi m S Ga. In 1812 he was made {Heading elder «f I sippi District, and was elected to tiie Gcoenl Cda' ence, in which body he served also at tbe mtmi 1844, at which the Church was dividad on tbi ^i«t question. In 1846 he was made supenaanti, aiM July 8, 1854. He was a very succeesAil prachs^is OM of the founders of Methodism in the Soda States.— Deems, Annals of SotOkan MASm,^ p. 852; Sprague, ^mia^t, vii, 485.
Duperron, Jacques Davt, a Fread ar^si. was bom of Protestant parents at St L4 Kgrm^ Nov. 15, 1556. His fitther was a Protestnt maaeia. and was compelled during the persecitkw e nb refbge in Switzerland, where the son iw en^ educated. In 1576 he was presentad at the cBOttf France, where Henry III gave him an ofin. Fi^ ing that the Roman Church woold open to his i bc brilliant career, he joined it, and took \ndi or^ devoting himself to polemics and to pro^rtmi He took an active part in the oonverooo of BottIT. and, in cooperation with cardinal D'Oaatf, ascoij ftam the Pope absolution for the Icing m VKt- '-% this occasion he was made bishop of Erreix^;^ Pope at the suggestion of the king. He alw k«^ the divorce of Henry from Margaret of VbWl ham his most formidable opponents was Do PkaM^r.' In 1604 he was made cardinal, two yean siaapd. almoner of France, and finally archbialMp rf ^• He was also a member of the Congreg(A it am (q. v.X and suggested the decision of CkoatVai the subject. He died at Paris Sept &,!«!'' Hi works were published a few years afkennrds(AeK | 1620-22, 8 vols. fol.). The first vohnne eoatiiab I TraiU sur FEucharittie against Dn PMs; fi>^» collection contains a number of poems. Set I^ Ecdesiastieal Writers, cent, xvii; Hoefer, 3hB?. ^ | Ginh-ak, xv, 286 ; Wetzer u.Welte, i5rei.to.i.9
Dupin, Louis Ellies, a leaned dodtf ofii Sorbonne, eminent as an ecclesiastical hiftcciu.n bom at Paris June 17, 1657, In leM he beeoK ^ tor of the Sorbonne, and was aftenrarfs kctas* moral philosophy, and devoted his lift chirfy ^ ** study of ecclesiastical history and literatme. He^ at Paris June 6, 1719.
Dupin rendered himself conspicuous u an ^Vf^ of the bull Unigemtus, and by his niodentk» p^ the friendship of several Protestant diriDtf* ^' archbishop Wake. It is especiaUy as the \a^ff^ ecclesiastical literature that Dupin has icadet^l uable service to theology. He had an moe^ talent for analyzing the worics of an aathor: ■« gives not only a histoiy of the writers, bat il«i substance of what they vrrote, in his BM^t^^ which the best edition is NoweBe mi&^*^}. teurs ecdieiasiiques contenaUthistoirtdtla^^^ logue, la critique et la chronologie de leun (itartj0^i Paris, 1688 (47 vols. 8vo); reprinted at Ab*^ (19 vols. 4to) ; translated into English imder tlf « A new History of Ecclesiastical Writers, etc, v^^ the 17th centurv (Ix)nd. 1698-1707, 17 vokfd. ^"^ in 7). There is a Dublin edition without tbe 1'^' tury (1722-24, 8 vols. fol.). No theological M complete without Dupin, although nuuijofbi^^ ments most be corrected by the additional \\^^ modem research has thrown upon Chnith k^ The freedom and general impartiality of Dopto* brought upon him attacks from the Benedktioci^
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{ from Bossaet, with whom he maintained a veiy cessfnl controyerey.
* Dnpin was also brought into trouble by the cel- ated Case of Conscience. This Case of Conscience i a paper signed by forty doctors of the Sorbonne 1702, which allows latitude of opinion with respect the sentiments of the Jansenists. It occasioned a ter controversy, and most of those who signed it re censured or punished. Dupin was not only de- Ted of his professorship, but banished to Chatelle- It. At length, by the interest of Mends, he was mitted to return ; but his professorship was not re- red. Clement XI sent formal thanks to Louis XIY
bestowing this chastisement upon Dupin; and in
brief which he addressed to the king on that occa^ 1, characterized him as ' a man who held very per- iou8 opinions, and who had been guilty of a crimi-