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<p> a [[Methodist]] Episcopal minister, was born in New [[Jersey]] in 1769. In 1803 he removed to Ohio, and entered the itinerant ministry in 1807. He was one of the pioneers of [[Methodism]] in the West. In 1804, while yet a local preacher, he preached the first Methodist sermon in [[Cincinnati]] to a dozen persons, in an upper room. With a brief interval, he labored as an itinerant until 1836, when he became superannuated. He died Aug. 21,1845. He was an able and faithful preacher, often impressively eloquent, and eminently successful as an evangelist. Revivals of religion followed his footsteps everywhere. An instructive sketch of his Life, from the pen of [[Justice]] M'Lean, was published in 1850 (Cincinnati. 18mo). '''''—''''' Minutes of Conferences, 3. 650; Methodist Quarterly Review, 1850, p. 324. </p>
<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>


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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>
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John Collins [1]

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.

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