John Collins (Independent minister)
John Collins (c. 1632โ1687) was an English Independent minister.
Biography
John Collins was born in England, but brought up in
congregational church at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1649, and became a fellow there. In 1653 he returned to Britain, as a preacher in Scotland.[1][2]
In 1659 Collins was acting as chaplain to General
Uniformity Act 1662, but is included by Edmund Calamy among the "silenced ministers."[1]
Subsequently, he succeeded Thomas Mallory (ejected from the lectureship of St. Michael's, Crooked Lane) as pastor of a congregational church in Lime Street, London. He was also one of the Pinners' Hall lecturers. He died on 3 December 1687.[1]
Works
According to Calamy, Collins published no separate work, but:[1]
- furnished a sermon to the London Farewell Sermons (1663), 8vo;
- and another (anonymous) to the third volume (1676) of Morning Exercise at Cripplegate, edited by Samuel Annesley, D.D.
- In conjunction with James Baron, B.D., he wrote a prefatory epistle to Ralph Venning's Remains, or Christ's School, etc. (1675), 8vo;
- he also wrote an epistle prefixed to a Discourse of the Glory to which God hath called Believers (1677), 12mo, by Jonathan Mitchel, a New England divine.
Family
Collins's son Thomas (educated at Utrecht) was elected copastor at Lime Street in 1697.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Gordon 1887, p. 370.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5942. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gordon, Alexander (1887). "Collins, John (1632?-1687)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Endnotes:
- Cotton Mather's Hist. New Eng. (1702), pt. iv. 136, 200;
- Calamy, Edmund (1713), An account of the ministers, lecturers, masters, and fellows of colleges and schoolmasters: who were ejected or silenced after the Restoration in 1660, by or before, the Act of Uniformity. ..., London: Printed for J. Lawrence, p. 837โ838
- Calamy, Edmund (1727), A continuation of the Account of the ministers, lecturers, masters and fellows of colleges, and schoolmasters, who were ejected and silenced after the restoration in 1660, by or before the Act for uniformity ..., vol. II, London: Printed for R. Ford [etc.], p. 962
- Palmer's Nonconf. Memorial (1802), ii. 4, (1803) iii. 511;
- Hist. Acct. of my own Life, 2nd ed. (1830), i. 142;
- Neal's Hist. Puritans (Dublin, 1759), iv. 203;
- Original Lists of Emigrants to America (1874), p. 97.
Further reading
- Gordon, Alexander (1917), Freedom after ejection: a review (1690-1692) of Presbyterian and Congregational nonconformity in England and Wales, Manchester: University Press, pp. 240โ241
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