Badcock, Samuel an English theologian, born at South Molton, Devonshire in 1747, died at London in 1788. He was first a dissenting minister, but in 1787 took orders in the Church of England. He was a contributor to the London Review, Monthly Review, and several other periodicals. His review of Priestley's History of the Corruptions of Christianity (in Monthly Review, June and August, 1783) was generally regarded as the best refutation of Priestley's views. Priestley answered immediately ("A Reply to the Animadversions, etc, in the Monthly Review for June, 1783,"), and Badcock again replied by another article in the Monthly Reviewer (Sept. 1783). He also published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1785, some memoirs of the Wesleys, charging them with Jacobitism, which John Wesley refuted. — Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, 1:98; Jones, Christ. Biography, s.v.; Wesley, Works, N.Y. ed. 7:256, 414.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More