Collins, John (6)
Collins, John
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in New Jersey in 1769. In 1803 he removed to Ohio, and entered the itinerant ministry in 1807. He was one of the pioneers of Methodism in the West. In 1804, while yet a local preacher, he preached the first Methodist sermon in Cincinnati to a dozen persons, in an upper room. With a brief interval, he labored as an itinerant until 1836, when he became superannuated. He died Aug. 21,1845. He was an able and faithful preacher, often impressively eloquent, and eminently successful as an evangelist. Revivals of religion followed his footsteps everywhere. An instructive sketch of his Life, from the pen of Justice M’Lean, was published in 1850 (Cincinnati. 18mo). Minutes of Conferences, 3. 650; Methodist Quarterly Review, 1850, p. 324.
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Collins, John (1)
a Scotch clergyman, was licensed to preach in 1631; presented to the living at Campsie in 1639, after long opposition, was ordained in 1641, and was murdered about Martinmas, 1648. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:63.
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Collins, John (2)
an English Independent minister, came over to America with his father in his youth; in 1649 was a fellow of Harvard College, Cambridge; Massachusetts, and, returned to England when Oliver Cromwell was lord protector. He became chaplain to general Monk. He was silenced but not ejected in 1662, and became pastor at Lime-street Independent Church, London. He was one of the first six persons chosen to deliver the Merchants’ Lecture at Pinner’s Hall in 1672. He died in London, December 3, 1687. He was a minister of uncommon ability, and an eloquent preacher, so that few persons went from his preaching unaffected. See Wilson, Dissenting Churches, 1:225-229.
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Collins, John (3)
an English Independent minister, son of the foregoing, was born in London about 1673. He studied at the University of Utrecht; returning to England, was ordained co-pastor at Lime Street, with the Reverend Robert Bragge, in 1698, and was chosen one of the Merchants’ lecturers. In 1702 he assisted at the ordination, in Mark Lane, of Dr. Isaac Watts. He was a good preacher, a friend of Matthew Henry, who informs us that he fell dead suddenly at his study door, March 19, 1714. See Wilson, Dissenting Churches, 1:240, 241.
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Collins, John (4)
a minister of the Society of Friends, was born at Charlestown, R.I., December 12, 1716, his father being also, a minister in the same denomination. He became an eminent preacher among the Friends, and for many years sat at the head of the New England Yearly Meeting. He had a thorough acquaintance with the disciplinary affairs of the society, and “was much engaged, and took much pains, in endeavoring to have the Africans or negroes freed from slavery, and often testified against that wicked practice.” He died at Stonington, Connecticut, October 1, 1778. See R.L. Biographical Cyclop; page 100. (J.C.S.)
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Collins, John (5)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Sussex County, Delaware, in April 1764. He grew up to be a man of great bodily strength, and fierce and revengeful passions; but married a woman of remarkable amiableness, and shortly afterwards was converted. He immediately began exhorting and preaching, and in 1803 entered the Philadelphia Conference, wherein he labored without intermission until within a few weeks of his death, which occurred March 30, 1827. Mr. Collins had some very objectionable qualities in his character, still he labored with untiring zeal and. did much good. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1827, page 542; Methodist Magazine, 10:289.
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Collins, John (6)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in Somerset County, Maryland, February 16, 1769. He was licensed by. the Presbytery of Lewes in 1791. After graduating at Princeton College, he assumed the presidency of Washington Academy, in his native county. In 1797 he purchased an estate in New Castle County, Delaware, whither he removed, and became and continued to be pastor of the Presbyterian Church in St. George’s until his death, April 12, 1804. See Alexander, Princeton College in the 18th Century.