a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1653; was ordained over the Presbyterian congregation at Castle Finn, County Donegal, Ireland, before 1661; went to Glasgow in June 1689; had a call to fill vacancies in the city of Glasgow; returned to Ireland in 1690, and was admitted to Derry; went back to Glasgow in 1698; settled at his former charge about 1700, and died there in September 1711, aged about seventy-eight years. He published An Answer to a Discourse on the Inventions of Men in Worship (1694): — Advice to Communicants (1695): — Advice for Assurance of Salvation (1702): — Answer to the Bishop of Deray's Second Admonition (1697): — Warning and Advice to the Christian (1701): — Walkinng with God (1712). See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:16, 18.
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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