Lamb, Thomas an English Baptist minister and strict Calvinist, flourished in the second half of the 17th1 century. He died about 1672. He is noted as the opponent of John Goodwin, the bold defender of Arminianism, whose Redemption Redeemed (London, 1651, fol.) Lamb answered in a work entitled Absolute Freedom from Sin by Christ's Death for the World, etc. (London, 1656, 4to).
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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