Harris, William, D.D (2)
Harris, William, D.D
an eminent English dissenting divine, is supposed to have been born at London, about 1675. He became pastor of a church at Crutched. Friars, London, in 1698. He was also for some thirty years one of the preachers of a Friday evening lecture at the Weigh-house, and succeeded Mr. Tong as lecturer at Salter’s Hall. He died in 1740. He was a concise, clear, and nervous writer; his works evince a. strong sense joined to a lively imagination, and regulated with judgment. He was one of the continuators of Matthew Henry’s Commentary (those on Philippians. and Colossians). Besides a number of occasional sermons, he wrote Funeral Discourses, in two Parts: (I), Consolations on the Death of our Friends; (II) Preparations for our own Death (Lond. 1736, 8vo): The Life and Character of Dr. Thomas Manton (London, 1725,. 8vo): A practical Illustration of the Book of Esther(London, 1737, 8vo), etc. Darling, Cyclopedia Bibliographica, 1, 1406; Bogue and Bennett, History of Dissenters, 2, 372.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Harris, William, D.D (2)
a Protestant Episcopal minister, was born at Springfield, Mass., and passed A.B, at. Harvard College in 1786. He was first licensed as a. minister in the Congregational Church, but, on perusing a compend of Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity, his mind and feelings were drawn to the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which he was shortly after ordained. Hethen took charge of St. Michael’s Church, Marblehead, and in 1802 became rector of St. Mark’s, New York. In 1811 he was chosen president of Columbia College. In 1816 he resigned his rectorship, and attended thereafter exclusively to the presidency of the college. He died Oct. 18, 1829. He published several occasional sermons. Sprague, Annals, 5, 383.