Pagit (Or Paget), Eusebius an English Puritan minister and writer, was born at Crawford, in Northamptonshire, about 1542. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. After taking holy orders in the Church Establishment he became successively vicar of Orundle and rector of Langton, in his native county; afterwards he removed to the living of Kilhampton, in Cornwall; and lastly to St. Anne and St. Agnes, London, in 1604. He died in 1617. He published some sermons and theological works, of which the following are the best known: A Harmonie upon the Three Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke (London, 1584), translated from Calvin: The History of the Bible, briefly collected by way of Question and Answer, printed at the end of several old editions of the Bible. See Athen. Oxon.; Brook's Puritans; Fuller's Worthies; Lloyd's Worthies; Strype's Whitgift; Allibone, Dict. of Briit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Thomas, Dict. of Biog. and Mythol. s.v.; Hook, Eccles. Biog. s.v.
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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