Yvon, Peter the friend and successor of Labadie (q.v.), was born at Montauban in 1646. At the age of five he already listened to Labadie's sermons, and his association with him was only severed by the master's death in 1674. He now became the head and leader of the Labadists, settled at Wiewert, in West Frisia, and died in 1687. His writings, mostly in French, but translated into Dutch and German, were once extensively read, and were not without influence upon the formation of Christian life in the Reformed Church. We mention, L'Impiete Convainone: — Essentia Religionis Christiance Patefacta: — De Praedestinatione: — Emmanuel, ou la Connoissance du Seignieur Jesus, etc. See Moller, Cimbria Litterat. 2:1020 sq.; Theologisches Universallexikon, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handhuch der theol. Lit. 1:505. (B.P.)
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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