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CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM (1602-1644) , English divine and controversialist, was born at Oxford in October 1602. In June 1618 he became a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, and was made a fellow of his college in June 1628. He had some reputation as a skilful disputant, excelled in mathematics, and gained some credit as a writer of verses. The marriage
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paper was lost; the other, on the same subject, was probably written on some other occasion at the request of his friends. He would not, however, take orders. His theological sensitiveness appears in his refusal of a preferment offered to him in 1635 by Sir Thomas
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letter , he was fully resolved on two pointsthat to say that the Fourth Commandment is a law of God appertaining to Christians is false and unlawful, and that the damnatory clauses in the Athanasian Creed are most false, and in a high degree presumptuous and schismatical. To subscribe, therefore, he felt would be to " subscribe his own damnation." At this time his principal work
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Laud, now archbishop of Canterbury, was not a little solicitous about Chillingworth's reply to Knott, and at his request, as " the young
opinion , is all intended by subscription." His scruples having thus been overcome, he was, in the following year (1638), promoted to the chancellorship of the church of Sarum, with the prebend of Brixworth [in Northamptonshire annexed to it. In the great
Besides his principal work, Chillingworth wrote a number of smaller anti-Jesuit papers published in the posthumous Additional Discourses (1687), and nine of his sermons have been preserved. In politics he was a zealous Royalist, asserting that even the unjust and tyrannous violence of princes may not be resisted, although it might be avoided in terms of the instruction, " when they persecute you in one city, flee into another." His writings long enjoyed a high popularity. The Religion of Protestants is characterized by much fairness and acuteness of argument, and was commended by Locke as a discipline of perspicuity and the way of right reasoning." The charge of Socimanism was frequently brought against him, but, as Tillotson thought, " for no other cause but his worthy and successful attempts to make the Christian religion reasonable." His creed, and the whole gist of his argument, is expressed in a single sentence, " I am fully assured that God does not, and therefore that men ought not to, require any more of any man than this, to believe the Scripture to be God's word, and to endeavour to find the true sense of it, and to live according to it." A Life by Rev. T. Birch was prefixed to the 1742 edition of Chillingworth's Works. CHILD$ (from Chile and hue, " part of Chile''), a province of southern Chile, and also the name of a large island off the Chilean coast forming part of the province. The province, area 8593 sq. m., pop. (1895) 77,750, is composed of three groups of islands, Chiloe, Guaitecas and Chonos, and extends from the narrow strait of Chacao in 410 40' S. to the peninsula of Taytao, about 450 45' S. The population is composed mainly of Indians, distantly related to the tribes of the mainland, and mestizos. The capital of the province is Ancud or San Carlos, at the northern end of the island of Chiloe, on the sheltered bay of San Carlos, once frequented by whalers. It is the seat of a bishopric; pop. (1905) 3182. Other towns are Castro. the former capital , on the eastern shore of Chiloe, and the oldest town of the island (founded 1566), once the seat of a Jesuit mission, and Melinca on an island of the Guaitecas group.The island of Chiloe, which lies immediately south of the province of Llanquihue, is a continuation of the western Chilean formation, the coast range appearing in the mountainous range of western Chiloe and the islands extending south along the coast. Between this coast range and the Andes, the gulfs of Chacao, or Ancud and Coecovado (average width, 3o m.) separate the island from the mainland. Chiloe has an extreme length north to south of about 118 m., and an averageti width of 35 to 40 m., with an area of about 4700 sq. m. There are several lakes on the islandCucao, 12 m. long, being the largest,and one small river, the Pudeto, in the northern part of the island, is celebrated as the scene of the last engagement in the war for in-dependence, the Spanish retaining possession of Chiloe until 1826. End of Article: CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM (1602-1644) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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