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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_27999" /> ==
 
<p> an English minister of the Society of Friends, was born at Laleham, Middlesex, June 1, 1639. He was among the first who, in his native county, embraced the doctrines and followed the practices of the Friends. He became a member of the monthly meeting of Kingston-upon-Thames, where the meeting-house was built, and continued a member thereof forty- eight years. After he became a minister he "was very zealous, not fearing the trials and persecutions that came upon him." He was in prison at the time of the great fire in London in 1666, and was obliged to carry his bed out on his back when the prison was burned. He remained steadfast in the truth to the last, and died at the house of his son-in-law, in Blackman street, Southwark, May 6,1723. See [[Piety]] Prormoted, 2:362. (J.C.S.) </p>
John Brown <ref name="term_28001" />
       
<p> an English Weslevan minister, was born in Helmsley Black-moor, Yorkshire, in 1782. He was converted in his sixteenth year, and, three years after, he left the farm for the ministry. He preached at Berwick-upon- Tweed, Howden (1803), Liverpool, Manchester, and Wakefield. While attending the [[Conference]] at [[Sheffield]] (1811), he was seized with catarrhal fever; this was aggravated by his journey, first to his native place, and then to London, to which city he was appointed by the Conference, so that he died soon after his arrival, September 17, 1811. "In mental vigor, moral worth, studious diligence, ministerial ability and spiritual usefulness, he excelled most of his contemporaries." See Minutes of the British Conference, 1812; Wesl. Meth. Magazine, 1819, page 241. </p>
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_69449" /> ==
 
<p> Of Haddington, a self-educated Scotch divine, born at Carpow, near Abernethy, Perthshire, son of a poor weaver, left an orphan at 11, became a minister of a Dissenting church in Haddington; a man of considerable learning, and deep piety; author of "Dictionary of the Bible," and "Self-interpreting Bible" (1722-1787). </p>
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<ref name="term_28001"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/brown,+john+(8) John Brown from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_27999"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/brown,+john+(2) John Brown from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_69449"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/brown,+john+(2) John Brown from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
       
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John Brown [1]

an English Weslevan minister, was born in Helmsley Black-moor, Yorkshire, in 1782. He was converted in his sixteenth year, and, three years after, he left the farm for the ministry. He preached at Berwick-upon- Tweed, Howden (1803), Liverpool, Manchester, and Wakefield. While attending the Conference at Sheffield (1811), he was seized with catarrhal fever; this was aggravated by his journey, first to his native place, and then to London, to which city he was appointed by the Conference, so that he died soon after his arrival, September 17, 1811. "In mental vigor, moral worth, studious diligence, ministerial ability and spiritual usefulness, he excelled most of his contemporaries." See Minutes of the British Conference, 1812; Wesl. Meth. Magazine, 1819, page 241.

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  1. ↑ John Brown from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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