Jones, John (2)
Jones, John
an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Llandwrog, Carnarvonshire, in 1825, entered the ministry in 1854, and died Dec. 17,1889. He published a work on the Atonement: Expository Sermons: Poem on the Bible: Logic: besides contributing to many periodicals. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1890, p. 24.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Jones, John (1)
an English Roman Catholic theologian, was born at London in 1575. He studied at St. John’s College, Oxford, where he roomed with Laud, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury. Having turned Roman Catholic, he went to Spain, completed his studies at the University of Compostello, and became a Benedictine under the name of Leander a Sancto-Martino. After teaching for a while Hebrew and theology in the College of St. Vedast, he returned to England at the invitation of Laud, and died at London, Dec. 17, 1636. He wrote Sacra Alrs Memorioe, ad Scripturas divinas in promptu habendas accomodata (Douay, 1623, 8vo): Conciliatio locorum communium totius Scripturoe (Douay, 1623, 8vo). He also published some editions of the Bible, with interlinear glosses (6 vols. fol.); of the works of Blosius; of Arnobe, Adversus Gentes (Douay, 1634); and worked with P. Reyner on the Apostolatus Benedictinorum. See Wood, Athenes Oxoniensis, vol. 1; Dodd, Ch. History; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gnrale, 26, 905. (J.N.P.)
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Jones, John (2)
an English Protestant divine, was born in 1700. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, and ordained in 1726. Having become vicar of Aconbury, he resigned in 1751, to take the rectory of Boulne Hurat, Bedfordshire. His death was caused by a fall from his horse; the time of its occurrence is not recorded. He wrote [Anon.] Free and candid Disquisitions relating to the Church of England, etc. (Lond. 1753, 8vo): this work produced a great controversy, lasting several years: Cursory Animadversions upon “Free and Candid Disquisitions,” etc. (Lond. 1753, 8vo): Catholic Faith and Practice (1765). See Nichols, Literary Anecdotes; London Gentl. Magazine, 81, pt. 1, p. 510 sq.; Allibone, Dict. Engl. and Am. Auth. 2, s.v.