ABBADIE, JAMES, an eminent Protestant divine, born at Nay in Berne in 1657; first educated there under the famous John la Placette, and afterwards at the university of Sedan, from whence he went into Holland and Germany, and was minister in the French church of Berlin. He left that place in 1690; came into England; was some time minister in the French church in the Savoy, London; and was made dean of Killaloe in Ireland. He was strongly attached to the cause of King William, as appears in his elaborate defence of the Revolution, and his History of the Assassin-
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ation Plot. The materials for the last were furnished by the secretaries of state. He had great natural abilities, which he improved by useful learning. His best known and ablest works are, Traité de la Divinité de Jésus-Christ, and Traité de la Religion Chrétienne. He died in London in 1727, after his return from a tour in Holland.