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John Davenant (20 May 1572 – 20 April 1641) was an English academic and bishop of Salisbury from 1621. He also served as one of the English delegates to the Synod of Dort.
A compromise pursued went in Davenant's direction. According to one interpretation of Davenant's views:
Other interpretations see Davenant as distinguishing himself from the School of Saumur and from the views of Moses Amyraut.Robert W. Godfrey, "Tensions Within International Calvinism: The Debate on the Atonement at the Synod of Dort” (PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 1974) pp. 179–88. When French Amyraldians attempted to garner support, citing the views of members of the British delegation to the Synod of Dort, Davenant offered a reply by way of clarification in his tract, “On the controversy among the French divines," in which he appears to make a distinction between his own views and those of the Amyraldians.Anthony Milton 2005, ed. & annotator, The British delegation and the Synod of Dort (1618–1619), Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press pp. 397–402.
Davenant sympathised with the aims of John Dury, as far as unifying Protestantism went, and wrote in his favour, a piece subsequently quoted by Gerard Brandt. PDF, p. 7.
On the topic of predestination, he engaged in controversy with the Arminian Anglican Samuel Hoard.
In an undated letter to his friend Samuel Ward, with whom he had served as a delegate to Dort, Davenant endorses the view (shared by Ward) that all baptised infants receive the remission of the guilt of original sin in baptism and that this constitutes their infant baptismal regeneration, justification, sanctification, and adoption.John Davenant, "Epistola Davenantii" in Vindiciae Gratiae Sacramentalis by Thomas Bedford (1650) pp. 1–31. In his view, this infant baptismal remission, which involves the objective status of the infant apart from subjective operations of grace, will not suffice for justification, if the child does not later come to faith. Nonetheless, he goes on to argue that this poses no contradiction to the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints as articulated by Dort, since the "perseverance" intended there presupposes subjective grace.John Davenant, “The Epistle of Davenant.” Retrieved 6 January 2011.
Davenant's "Dissertation on the Death of Christ" was translated into English from Latin in 1831 by Josiah Allport and published as an appendix to his commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Colossians. The Commentary on Colossians was reprinted, without the "Dissertation," in 2005 by the Banner of Truth Trust (). The "Dissertation" was republished by Quinta Press in 2006 ().
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