Alexander, John (4)
Alexander, John (1)
a Scotch Episcopalian, was born in 1703. He was ordained deacon and priest in the Scottish Church, and officiated at Alloa. In 1743 the clergy of Dunkeld elected him to be their diocesan, and he was consecrated bishop Aug. 9. In the persecution of the Episcopalians, the chapel of Alexander was razed to the ground, his house was plundered, and he was obliged to conceal himself. He resumed his duties, in spite of the penalties, after the first violence of the persecution ceased, and died in 1776. See Lawson, Hist. of the Scottish Episcopal Church; Keith, Catalogue (Russel’s ed.); Skinner, Annals.
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Alexander, John (2)
a Scotch engraver, who worked at Rome in 1718. His plates were chiefly after Raphael. He engraved six mid-sized plates lengthways, dedicated to Cosmo III, grand-duke of Tuscany, as follows: The Benediction of Abraham (1717): The Sacrifice of Abraham (1718): The Angel Appearing to Abraham (eod.): The Departure of Lot from Sodom (eod.): Jacob’s Ladder (eod.) Moses and the Burning Bush (1717).
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Alexander, John (3)
an English Unitarian minister, was born in Ireland, of English parents, in 1736. After receiving a grammar-school education, he was sent to the Dissenting Academy at Daventry, from which he. went to Dr. Benson. He afterwards entered the ministry, preaching in or near Birmingham, but principally at the small village of London. He died suddenly, Dec. 28, 1765. After his death, the Rev. John Palmer of London published a work of his entitled A Paraphrase upon Ch. 15 of 1 Cor., with notes: Commentary on Ch.6, 7, and 8 of Romans and a Sermon on Ecclesiastes 9, 10 (1766. 4to).
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Alexander, John (4)
an English Congregational minister, was born at Lancaster, Dec. 19, 1792. He learned to love and serve God in the family circle. In 1812 he was received into fellowship with the Church, and immediately began to preach. Mr. Alexander entered Hoxton Academy in 1814, and in 1817 was sent as a supply to the Tabernacle, in Norwich. In 1820 he was ordained over that charge, and there labored for nearly fifty years. Upwards of a thousand persons were received into Church fellowship as the result of his ministry, and ten entered the ministry. Much of his success was owing to the love and attention he gave to the young people. As a preacher, Mr. Alexander was deliberate at the beginning of his sermons, waxing into great earnestness and fervor at its close; rather rhetorical in style; and apt in illustration, anecdote, and quotations from Scripture and sacred song. His efficiency both as preacher and pastor resulted greatly from thorough and prayerful preparation. His prayer-meeting addresses, week-day sermons, public prayers and speeches, Bible-class lectures, and visitations of the sick were as carefully thought over, written out in a marvelously neat hand, and prayed over, as were his three Sunday sermons. In 1866 Mr. Alexander resigned the care of his charge. He died July 3, 1868. Mr. Alexander published, by request, several single discourses and pamphlets: also 2 vols. of sermons entitled The Preacher from the Press: brief Memoirs of bishop Stanley and of Joseph John Gurney: and a Life of his father, the Lancashire Apostle. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1869. p. 234-236.