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Blackstock, William a minister of the Associate Church, was born, educated, and licensed to preach in Ireland. He emigrated to this country about 1794. The Presbytery of the Carolinas report that he was a probationer from the Presbytery of Down, in Ireland, and had been received and ordained by them, July 8, 1794, over the … Continue reading “Blackstock, William”

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Blackness (, kimrrm, obscurations; , kadhruth, darkness; , gnophos, darkness , zophos blackness): Terms rarely used but of special significance in picturing the fearful gloom and blackness of moral darkness and calamity. Job, cursing, the day of his birth, wishes that it, a dies ater (dead black day), might be swallowed up in darkness (Job … Continue reading “BLACKNESS”

Blackmore, Thomas W an English Baptist minister, was born in Clayhidon, Devonshire, in 1799. After receiving the rudiments of an education, he was sent in his youth as an apprentice to a manufacturer in Bridgewater, Somersetshire. Here he was converted, and began to proclaim the message of salvation to others. He labored efficiently as an … Continue reading “Blackmore, Thomas W”

Blackmore, Sir Richard was born in 1650, and died in 1729. He was active in the revolution which elevated William III, whose physician he was, to the throne. Besides several medical and poetical works, he wrote Just Prejudices against the Arian Hypothesis (1725), Natural Theology (1728), Creation, a philosophical poem (1712, 4th ed. 1718), which … Continue reading “Blackmore, Sir Richard (2)”

Blackmer, Joel a Congregational minister, was born at Barnard, Vt., April 11, 1810. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1834, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1840. He was a licentiate at Weymouth, Mass., from 1840 to 1841; teacher at Ridgebury, N.Y., from 1843 to 1845; principal of the Clinton-place Institute, New York city; and … Continue reading “Blackmer, Joel”

Blackman, James F a Baptist minister, was born in Louisiana in 1828. He was brought up to the business of a printer and publisher. He preached for several years most acceptably and with success in the Ouachita region, in his native state. His death took place Dec. 11, 1874. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclopcedia, p. 104. … Continue reading “Blackman, James F”

Blackman, Learner an eminent pioneer of American Methodism, was born in New Jersey in 1781, and entered the ministry in 1800 at about 19 years of age. After a few years spent in itinerant labors in the Eastern States, he was sent in 1805 on a mission to Mississippi, then a wild country, inhabited by … Continue reading “Blackman, Learner (2)”

Blackman, Benjamin a Congregational minister, was the son of Rev. Adam Blackman, first minister at Stratford, Conn. Benjamin graduated at Harvard College in 1663; was ordained at Maiden in 1674; and resigned his charge in 1678. He left in consequence of dissatisfaction, and nine years afterward sued the town for arrears of his salary. After … Continue reading “Blackman, Benjamin”

Blackloe, Thomas was professor of theology in the English College at Douay, and afterwards canon of the Romanist Chapter, formed by William Bishop, in London. He lived about the middle of the 17th century, and was a man of turbulent disposition; many of his writings were condemned by the inquisition, such as, Sonus Buccino: Appendicula … Continue reading “Blackloe, Thomas”