Goode, William, a clergyman of the Church of England, rector of Allhallows the Great and Less, London, and later dean of Ripon, died in 1868. He was a prominent and prolific writer of the Low-Church school. Among the best known of his works are: The Extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit (London, 1834): — The Established Church (1834): — Tracts on Church-rates (1840): — The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice (1842, 2 volumes; 2d ed. 1853, 3 volumes), directed against the views of Dr. Pusey concerning the value of tradition as a rule of faith: — Tract XC historically refuted (1845): — Doctrine of the Church of England as to the Effects of Baptism in the case of Infants (1849): — Vindication of the Church of England on the Validity of the Orders in the Scotch and Foreign non-Episcopal Churiches (3 pamphlets, 3d ed. 1852).
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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