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impossible for any man to attain to more than 

 relative certainty on religious matters. " Chilling- 

 worth," says Sir James Stephen, " wants little but 

 a change in punctuation to be a writer of our own 

 day, and a writer as powerful, as expressive and as 

 idiomatic as any in the whole history of our 

 language." A writer in the Quarterly Review for 

 July 1902 asks if it can be said that there still 

 survives sufficient interest in the long argumenta- 

 tion between a Protestant and a Jesuit on the facts 

 of the case, as they appeared in the earliest part 

 of the seventeenth century, to make it worth 

 while to republish The Religion of Protestants. 



Chillingworth has been styled " The Immortal." 

 He died on the 30th of January 1644, and was 

 buried in Chichester Cathedral.^ 



JAMES DUPORT 



(1606-1679). 

 " He was a scholar ; and a ripe and good one." 



He was the son of John Duport, Master of 

 Jesus College, Cambridge, who assisted in the 

 translation of King James's Bible. 



He was educated at Westminster and at 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a 



1 His life was much harassed by Francis Cheynell, the Parlia- 

 mentary Chaplain, who threw the famous book into Chillingworth's 

 grave. 



