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HUTCHINSON, JOHN (1674-1737)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 13 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUTCHINSON, See also:JOHN (1674-1737) , See also:English theological writer, was See also:born at Spennithorne, See also:Yorkshire, in 1674. He served as steward in several families of position, latterly in that of the See also:duke of See also:Somerset, who ultimately obtained for him the See also:post of See also:riding purveyor to the See also:master of the See also:horse, a See also:sinecure See also:worth about £200 a See also:year. In 1700 he became acquainted with Dr John See also:Woodward (1665–1728) physician to the duke and author of a See also:work entitled The Natural See also:History of the See also:Earth, to whom he entrusted a large number of fossils of his own See also:collecting, along with a See also:mass of See also:manuscript notes, for arrangement and publication. A misunderstanding as to the manner in which these should be dealt with was the immediate occasion of the publication by Hutchinson in 1724 of See also:Moses's Principia, See also:part i., in which Woodward's Natural History was bitterly ridiculed, his conduct with regard to the mineralogical specimens not obscurely characterized, and a refutation of the Newtonian See also:doctrine of See also:gravitation seriously attempted. It was followed by part ii. in 1727, and by various other See also:works, including Moses's Sine Principio, 173o; The Confusion of See also:Tongues and Trinity of the Gentiles, 1731; See also:Power Essential and See also:Mechanical, or what power belongs to See also:God and what to his creatures, in which the See also:design of See also:Sir I. See also:Newton and Dr See also:Samuel See also:Clarke is laid open, 1732; See also:Glory or Gravity, 1733; The See also:Religion of Satan, or See also:Antichrist Delineated, 1736. He taught that the See also:Bible contained the elements not only of true religion but also of all rational See also:philosophy. He held that the See also:Hebrew must be read without points, and his See also:interpretation rested largely on fanciful symbolism. See also:Bishop See also:George See also:Horne of See also:Norwich was during some of his earlier years an avowed Hutchinsonian; and See also:William See also:Jones of Nayland continued to be so to the end of his See also:life. A See also:complete edition of his publications, edited by See also:Robert Spearman and See also:Julius Bate, appeared in 1748 (12 vols.); an Abstract of these followed in 1753; and a Supplement, with Life by Spearman pre-fixed, in 1765.

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