Ball, John (2)
Ball, John
a Roman priest, who seems to have imbibed Wickliffe’s doctrines, and who was (previously to 1366) excommunicated repeatedly for preaching errors, and schisms, and scandals against the pope, archbishops, bishops, and clergy. He preached in favor of the rebellion of Wat Tyler, and was executed at Coventry in 1381. See Collier, Eccl. Hist. 3, 148 sq.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ball, John (2)
a Puritan divine, was born in 1585, at Cassington, in Oxfordshire. He studied at Brazennose College, Oxford, and was admitted to holy orders, and passed his life in poverty on a small cure at Whitmore, Staffordshire, to which was united the care of a school. He died in 1640. His Catechism had gone through fourteen editions before the year 1632, and has had the singular lot of being translated into Turkish. His Treatise on Faith (Lond. 1632, 4to) also passed through many editions. He published also The Power of Godliness and other treatises (Lond. 1657, fol.) See Rose, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, 1:108.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ball, John (2)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Fairfax County, Va., Sept. 1, 1812. He received an early religious training, experienced conversion at the age of fifteen, and in 1837 was admitted into the Baltimore Conference, in which he labored faithfully until his decease, Feb. 15, 1846. Mr. Ball was a young man of great promise, being strong in body and mind, and energetic. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1846, p.8.