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<p> a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at [[Glasgow]] University in 1623; became schoolmaster at Renfrew; was appointed minister at Bonhill in 1637; declined the authority of the general assembly in 1638; was deposed in April 1639, and fled to Ireland, where he played a deceitful part, for which he was "hewed in pieces by two swine-herds in the arms of his wife," in 1641, aged about thirty-eight years. See [[Fasti]] Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:346. </p>
<p> an English nonconformist divine, was born at [[Gloucester]] in 1620. He was educated at a grammar school there, and graduated at Oxford in 1639. He preached successively at Gloucester and Chichester, and became rector at Bramshot, in Hampshire, but was ejected in 1662, and afterwards lived privately in London, where he died December 26, 1680. He published an account of the siege of Gloucester, besides several tracts, for which see Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v. </p>


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<ref name="term_34684"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/corbet,+john+(1) John Corbet from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_34687"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/corbet,+john+(2) John Corbet from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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Latest revision as of 10:00, 15 October 2021

John Corbet [1]

an English nonconformist divine, was born at Gloucester in 1620. He was educated at a grammar school there, and graduated at Oxford in 1639. He preached successively at Gloucester and Chichester, and became rector at Bramshot, in Hampshire, but was ejected in 1662, and afterwards lived privately in London, where he died December 26, 1680. He published an account of the siege of Gloucester, besides several tracts, for which see Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.

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