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 indirect love of paradoxes and novelties, and thus exposing himself to the scoffs of unbelievers. His pamphlet on the immortality of the soul gave rise to the well known controversy between Mr Collins and Dr Clark on that subject. He died in 1711.