DODWELL, HENRY, a very learned controversial
writer, born at Dublin, but of English extraction, in
1641. He wrote an incredible number of tracts: but
his services were so little acknowledged, that Bishop
Burnet and others accuse him of doing more hurt than
good to the cause of Christianity, by his indiscreet love
of paradoxes and novelties, and thus exposing himself
to the scoffs of unbelievers. His pamphlet on the im-
mortality of the soul gave rise to the well-known con-
trovercy between Mr Collins and Dr Clark on that sub-
ject. He died in 1711.