an. Irishman, was bishop of Cork and Ross, to which sees he was promoted in 1709, and died August 25, 1735. He left many works, among them A Reply to the Infidel Toland (Dublin, 1697, 8vo): On the Custom of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead, in reply to a divine who justified the practice (ibid. 1715, 12mo): On the Evil qf Drinking Healths (1716, 1722). He also wrote remarks on a work of the bishop of Raphoe, entitled A Clear and Easy Method, by means of which a man of moderate capacity may attain to a satisfactory knowledge of the things which belong to his eternal salvation (ibid. 1716). See Ware, Irish Bishops (ed. Harris). Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.<\/p>\n
a colored Methodist Episcopal minister, was born a slave at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1821. He was taught to sing hymns by his first master, who was a minister; experienced conversion at the age of sixteen; was sold twice, and finally liberated by the declaration of emancipation; became a member of the Louisiana Conference, and in it labored faithfully and successfully for many years, dying. at his post in 1879. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1880, page 8.<\/p>\n
Brown, Peter (1) an. Irishman, was bishop of Cork and Ross, to which sees he was promoted in 1709, and died August 25, 1735. He left many works, among them A Reply to the Infidel Toland (Dublin, 1697, 8vo): On the Custom of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead, in reply to a divine … Continue reading “Brown, Peter (2)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}