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<p> a [[Methodist]] Episcopal minister, was born in [[Sussex]] County, Delaware, in April 1764. He grew up to be a man of great bodily strength, and fierce and revengeful passions; but married a woman of remarkable amiableness, and shortly afterwards was converted. He immediately began exhorting and preaching, and in 1803 entered the [[Philadelphia]] Conference, wherein he labored without intermission until within a few weeks of his death, which occurred March 30, 1827. Mr. [[Collins]] had some very objectionable qualities in his character, still he labored with untiring zeal and. did much good. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1827, page 542; Methodist Magazine, 10:289. </p>
<p> an English Independent minister, son of the foregoing, was born in London about 1673. He studied at the University of Utrecht; returning to England, was ordained co-pastor at [[Lime]] Street, with the [[Reverend]] [[Robert]] Bragge, in 1698, and was chosen one of the Merchants' lecturers. In 1702 he assisted at the ordination, in Mark Lane, of Dr. Isaac Watts. He was a good preacher, a friend of Matthew Henry, who informs us that he fell dead suddenly at his study door, March 19, 1714. See Wilson, Dissenting Churches, 1:240, 241. </p>


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<ref name="term_33541"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/collins,+john+(5) John Collins from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_33542"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/collins,+john+(3) John Collins from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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John Collins [1]

an English Independent minister, son of the foregoing, was born in London about 1673. He studied at the University of Utrecht; returning to England, was ordained co-pastor at Lime Street, with the Reverend Robert Bragge, in 1698, and was chosen one of the Merchants' lecturers. In 1702 he assisted at the ordination, in Mark Lane, of Dr. Isaac Watts. He was a good preacher, a friend of Matthew Henry, who informs us that he fell dead suddenly at his study door, March 19, 1714. See Wilson, Dissenting Churches, 1:240, 241.

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