rnathematicce (1710): — Prinitice Christianiti/ Revived (1711-12) : — A Brief H istorij of the Revival of the A nan Heresy in England (1711): — Athanasius Convicted of Forgery (11 \2): — Three Essays onTrinitarianism {Yi Vd): — .4 Vindication of the Sibylline Oracles; to which arz added the Genuine Oracles Themselves (1715): — .4.s'/)-()- nomical Lectures (eod.) : — St. Clement's and St. Irenct'is's Vindication of the Apostolical Constitutions (1716) -.—Sir Isaac Xewtoiis Mathematiccd Philosophy DemonsI rated (eod.): — A st7-onomical Principles of Religion, Natural and Revealed (1717) : — .4 Letter to the Earl of Notting- ham concerning the Eternity of the Son of God and <f the Holy Spirit (1719) : — The True Origin of the Sabel- lian and Athanasian Doctrines of the Trinity (1720) : — .4?* Essay toioards Restoring the True Text of the Old and New Testaments (1722) : — The lAteral A ccomplish- vient of Scripture Prophecies (1724): — .4 Collection of Authentic Records belonging to the Old and New Testa- ments, Translated into English (1727-28) : — Historical Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Dr. Samuel Clarke (1730) : — The Primitive Eucharist Revived (1736) : — The Eternity of Hell Torments Considered (1740) : — The Primitive New Testament (1745) : — The Sacred History of the Old and New Testaments (eod.) : — 3femoirs of His Own IJfe and Writings (1749-50) : — and a translation of the Works of Josephus, which has never been su- perseded except in part. See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.
Whistoman Controversy. See Whiston, William.
"Whitaker, Nathaniel, D.D., a Presbyterian min- ister, was born at Huntington, L. I., Feb. 22, 1722, and graduated at Princeton College in 1752, He was or- dained and installed at Woodbridge, N. J., in 1755; was called to Chelsea, near Norwich, Conn., Feb. 25, 1761 ; and selected by the Connecticut Board of Correspondents for Evangelizing the Indians, to go to Great Britain with the Rev. Sampson Occum, an Indian of the Mo- hegan tribe, to solicit funds for a mission school. Lady Huntingdon, Romaine, Venn, Wesley, and others showed them great favor, and a considerable .sum was raised. After eighteen months' absence, they returned, having prepared the way for founding Dartmouth College. While in England he published several sermons on Reconciliation to God. Difficulties arising in his con- gregation on the subject of Church government, he ac- cepted a call to the Second Church in Salem, Mass., and was installed July 28, 1769. In 1773, in consequence of a disagreement among the people. Dr. Whitaker, with fourteen others, withdrew from the Church, formed a separate congregation, and united with the Boston Presbyter\', which declared the new erection the Third Church, His friends erected a house of worship, but it was soon after burned. Not disheartened, they sought outside help, and in 1776 were enabled to complete a new church. At the breaking-out of the war he warm- ly espoused the cause of independence, and actually en- gageil in the manufacture of saltpetre. In a short time he furnished the authorities with two hundred and eighty pounds. On the occasion of the Boston massacre in 1771, he printed a sermon on The Fatal Tragedy in King Street , and on the proclamation of independence another, entitled A71 Antidote to Toryism; and at the end of the war still another, On the Reirard of Toryism, He was dismissed by a council called for that purpose, Feb. 10, 1784, but soon after installed at Norridgewock. After vainly attempting to establish a presbytery in Maine, he went to Virginia, and died at Woodbridge, near Hampton, Jan. 1, 1795, in poverty, notwithstanding all he had done for the Church and country. (W, P, S.)
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, LL.D., a clergy- man of the Church of England, was born at Rainham, in Norfolk, June 8, 1759. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; ordained deacon in 1785, and priest the following year ; became perpetual curate of Holme, Lancashire, in 1797; vicar of Whalley in 1809; held for some time the vicarage of Heysham; became vicar of
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Blackburn in 1818, and remained there until liis death, whicli occurred Dec. 18, 1821. He published, A His- tory of the Original Parish of Whalley and Honor of Clitheroe, in the Counties of Lancaster and York (1801) : — Histori/ of the Deanery of Craven (1805):— /^e Motu per Britanniam Civico Annis 1745 et 1746 (1809) : — The Life and Original Correspondence of /Sir George Rad- cllfe (1810): — an edition of The Vidon of Piers Ploiv- man (eod.) : — a new edition of Thoresbj''s Ducatus Le- odinensis; or, The Topography of Leeds (1816) x—Loidis and Almete; or, An Attempt to Illustrate the Districts Described ill these Words by Bede (1816) :— besides single sermons and other works.
Whitaker, "William, D.D., an eminent English divine, was born at Holme, Lancashire, in 1548. He was educated at St. Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was appointed to a fellowship; became regius professor of divinity at Cambridge in 1579; was appointed chancellor of St. Paul's in 1580; and became master of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1586. He died at Cambridge, Dec. 4, 1595. Mr. Whit- aker was an able Calvinistic writer, and a powerful champion of Protestantism against the attacks of pop- ery. He published. The Liturgy of the Church of Eng- land, in Latin and Greek (1596): — Catechismus, siee Prima Iiistilutio Disciplinaque Pietatis Christianoi La- line Kxplicata, etc. (1570) : — .4 d Rationes Decern Edinundi Campiani Jesuitce . . . Responsio, etc. (1581) : — A Dis- putation on Holy Scripture against the Papists, especial- ly Bellarmine and Stapleton (tirst published in Latin in 1588, afterwards in English) :— and other controversial works. A collection of his Opera Theologica was pub- lished at Geneva in 1610, 2 vols. fol. See Chalmers, Biog. Did, s. v.