an English clergy man, was minister of Poplar, and afterwards of Maidstone, and preached the Boyle Lecture in 1712. He published numerous works, among which may be noted Six Sermons to Young Persons (1697): — Fair Warnings to a Careless World (eod.): — Necessary Duty of Family Prayer (1704): — Divine, Original, and Incomparable Excellence of the Christian Religion as Founded on the Holy Scriptures (Boyle Lecture, 1712): — and Young Man's Monitor (13th ed. 1802). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit and Amer. Authors, 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