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tffier, give the executive power fo pc-rfuafi ve an energy, 
with refpeft to the perfons themfelves, and to prevailing 
an intereft with their friends and families, as will amply 
make amends for the lofs of external prerogative. 
To KING, v. a. To fupply with a king. A word ra¬ 
ther ludicrous: 
England is fo idly king'd. 
Her fceptre fo fantaflically borne, 
That fear attends her not. Shakefpeare's Henry V. 
To make royal ; to raife to royalty : 
Sometimes am I a king ; 
Then treafon makes me with myfelf a beggar. 
And fo I am : then crufhing penury 
Perfuades me I was better when a king; 
Then am I king'd again. Shakefpeare's Richard. II. 
KING (Dr. John), a learned Englifli bithop in the 
17th century, was educated at Weftminfter feiiool, and at 
Oxford, and appointed chaplain to queen Elizabeth. In 
1:605 he was rnade dean of Chrift-church, was for feveral 
years vice-chancellor of Oxford, and in 1611 he was ad¬ 
vanced to the bifhopric of London. Beiides his Leftures 
upon Jonah, delivered at York, he publifhed feveral fer- 
mons. King James I. ufed to Ityle him the King of preach¬ 
ers-, and lord chief juftice Coke often declared, that he 
teas the bejl. Jpeaker in the Star-chamber in his time. He was 
fo conftant in preaching after he was a bithop, that, un- 
lefs he was prevented by want of health, he omitted no 
Sunday in viliting fome pulpit in or near London. Soon 
after his death, it was reported that he died a member of 
the Romifh church. But the falfity of this Itory was fuf- 
ficiently expofed by his fon Dr. Henry King, who was 
bithop of Chichefter, in a fermon at St. Paul’s Crofs foon 
after; by bithop Godwin, in the Appendix to his Com- 
snentarius de Praefulibus Anglia, printed in 1622; and by 
Mr. John Gee, in his book, entitled, The Foot out of 
the Snare. 
KING (William), a learned Irith prelate, was the fon 
of a Scotch gentleman fettled in Ireland, and born at An¬ 
trim, in the province of Ulfter, in the year 1650. When 
he was twelve years old, he was Cent to the grarnmar- 
fchool of Dungannon, in the county of Tyrone, where 
his progrefs in claffical learning reflected credit both on 
hirnfelf and his mailer; and from that place he was trans¬ 
planted to Trinity-college, Dublin, in 1667. In this 
lituation he applied to his Itudies with very commendable 
diligence, and was admitted to the degree of B. A. in 
1670. He commenced M. A. in 1673; and in the fame 
year w’as ordained deacon. In the following year he re¬ 
ceived priell’s orders from Dr. Parker, archbilhop of Tuam ; 
who foon afterwards took him into favour, and appointed 
him his chaplain in 1676. Ecclefialtical honours now 
began to flow in rapidly upon him. In the year lait men¬ 
tioned, his patron collated him to a prebend in the church 
of Tuam ; and foon afterwards advanced him to the pre- 
centorlhip of the fame cathedral. His relidence there, how¬ 
ever, was not of long duration ; for the archbilhop, being 
promoted to the fee of Dublin, took the earlielt opportu¬ 
nity of removing his favourite near to hirnfelf. Accord¬ 
ingly, he preferred him to the office of chancellor of the 
church of St. Patrick, and to the parilh of Warburg, the 
archbifhop’s peculiar, in Dublin. During the reign of 
James II. Mr. King ffiowed that he was not unworthy of 
the preferments which had been conferred upon him, by 
tlie learning, abilities, and l'pirit, which he difplayed, in 
the defence of the proteftant religion, in oppofition to 
Mr. Manby, dean of Londonderry, who had been lately 
reconciled to the Romifh religion. Mr. King publiflied 
three trafts in this controversy, which continued to the 
beginning of 1688 ; and in that year he was elefted dean 
of St. Patrick’s. No fooner had the revolution taken 
place in England, than the dean became aftive in pro¬ 
moting the fame eftabliffiment in Ireland, both before 
and after the landing of king James there in 1689. That 
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prince, fuily fenlible of the dean’s influence, and of the 
weight of his oppofition, confined him twice in the tower 
of Dublin-caftle on that account. This did not, how¬ 
ever, prevent him from proceeding doftor of divinity 
that year ; and he obtained his liberty foon afterwards. 
But the Jacobite party continued inveterate againfl him; 
and, when they failed in an attempt to expole him to the 
vengeance of the court, by mifreprefentation and calum¬ 
ny, they excited their inilruments to aflault him in the 
public ftreet, where a mufket with a lighted match was 
levelled at him. He was alfo frequently dillurbed in the 
performance of divine fervice at his church ; and, on one 
particular day, feven officers who were prefent fwore 
aloud that they would cut his throat. 
Upon the flight of king James into France, after the 
battle of the Boyne, in the year 1690, and the appoint¬ 
ment of a thanldgiving day for the prefervation of king 
William’s perfon, dean King preached the fermon on that 
occafion at St. Patrick’s cathedral; and, in January 1691, 
his zeal and activity in favour of the revolution were re¬ 
warded with the epifcopal dignity, by his confecration to 
the fee of Derry. A few months after this, he publifhed 
a piece entitled, “The State of the Proteftants in Ireland 
under the late King James’s Government; in which their 
Carriage towards him is juflified, and the abfolute Necef- 
fity of their endeavouring to be freed from his Govern¬ 
ment, and of fubmitting to their prefent Majeflies, is de¬ 
mon ftrated.” This treatife was fo well received by the 
public, that a third edition of it was publilhed in the 
year 1692 ; and bifhop Burnet obferves, that it was uni- 
verially acknowledged to be as truly as it was finely writ¬ 
ten. The Jacobites, however, mull be excepted from the 
number of thofe who applauded it ; and one of their cham¬ 
pions, Mr. Charles Leflie, wrote an anfvver to it; but in 
i'uch a rancorous fpirit, that the bifliop did not think it 
worthy of any public reply. 
As the public tranquillity was now perfeftly reftored, 
his lordffiip applied hirnfelf more particularly to the im¬ 
mediate duties of his paftoral care ; and finding, upon a 
review of the Hate of his diocefe, that, from the great in¬ 
flux of Scotch colonies into it, the major part of the peo¬ 
ple were of the prelbyterian perfuafion, his zeal for the 
eflabliffied church induced him to attempt their conver- 
fion to the epifcopal difeipline. With this defign he pub¬ 
lilhed, in 1694, a treatife entitled, “ The Inventions of 
Men in the Worfhip of God ;” which drew him into a. 
controverfy with Mr. Jofeph Boyce, a difienting minifter 
of Dublin; and the conteft was fuflained by them, in dif¬ 
ferent publications, for about twelve months, when it 
terminated, without effeftuating the objett which his 
lordffiip had at heart. 
In the year 1702, bifliop King publiflied at Dublin his 
celebrated and very valuable work, entitled De Origine 
Mali, &c. 4to. which was reprinted the fame year at Lon¬ 
don, in 8vo. The objeft of this work is to fiiow, how- 
all the feveral kinds of evil with which the world abounds 
are confiftent with the goodnefs of God, and may be ac¬ 
counted for without the fuppofition of an evil principle. 
Certain of the doftrines of this work were controverted 
by M. Bayle, and alfo by M. Leibnitz. Bifliop King did 
not make any public reply to thefe opponents during his 
life-time ; but he left behind him a great number of ma- 
nuferipts, in which he conlidered their feveral objections 
to his fyllem, and laboured to vindicate it from the lead 
cavil; of which papers the fubftance was communicated 
to the world. In the year 1702, alfo, our prelate was 
tranflated to the archbifliopric of Dublin; and in 1709 lie 
publilhed a fermon preached before the Irifli houle of 
peers, entitled, “ Divine Predellination and Foreknow'- 
ledge confiftent with the Freedom of Man’s Will,” in 
which he advanced adoftrine concerning the moral attri¬ 
butes of God, as being different from the moral qualities 
of the fame name in man. This doftrine was attacked 
both by Dr. John Edwards and Mr. Anthony Collins ; 
with whom the archbilhop did not enter into controverfy, 
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