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| == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_38040" /> ==
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| <p> D.D., bishop of Salisbury, was born in 1721 at Pittenweem, Fifeshire, and was educated at Baliol College, Oxford. He was chaplain in the Guards at the battle of Fontenoy, became canon and dean of [[Westminster]] in 1762, was made bishop of Car lisle in 1787, and in 1791 was transferred to Salisbury. He died May 18, 1807. Dr. [[Douglas]] was intimate with Dr. Johnson, and all the most celebrated of his contemporaries. He was an accurate scholar and critic, and exposed Lander in his Milton no Plagiary, and ably attacked Hume in his Criterion of Miracles. Both these essays are given in Douglas's Select Works (Salisbury, 1820, 4to). He also wrote largely against [[Archibald]] Bower, aiming to show that he was a literary and religious impostor, in his Six [[Letters]] to Sheldon (Lond. 1756, 8vo), and in his Bower and Tillemont compared (London, 1757, 8vo). A new edition of his Criterion appeared from the [[Clarendon]] Press (1833). See Elliott, Delineation of [[Romanism]] (Lond. 1851), page 525; [[Van]] Mildert, Boyle Lectures. </p> | | John Douglas <ref name="term_38041" /> |
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| | <p> a Scotch prelate, was a [[Carmelite]] friar, afterwards chaplain to the earl of Argyle, and finally the first [[Protestant]] bishop of the see of St. Andrews. He became rector of the University of St. Andrews, November 30, 1570. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 39. </p> |
| == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_72107" /> ==
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| <p> [[Bishop]] of Salisbury, born at Pittenweem, Fife; wrote "The Criterion of, or a [[Discourse]] on, Miracles" against Hume; was a friend of Samuel Johnson's (1721-1807). </p>
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| | | <ref name="term_38041"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/douglas,+john+(1) John Douglas from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> |
| <ref name="term_38040"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/douglas,+john John Douglas from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | |
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