Cobard, Jacques a French martyr, was a schoolmaster in the city of Saint-Mihiel, in Lorraine, who maintained against three priests that the sacrament of baptism and of the Lord's Supper did not avail unless received with faith.. For this, and also for his confession, which he, being in prison, sent of his own accord by his mother to the judge, he was burned, most quietly suffering, in 1545, in Lorraine. See Fox, Acts and Monuments 4:401.
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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