a Reformed Presbyterian divine and author, was born at Moalarg, near Ballymena, County of Antrim, Ireland, May 21,1773. He graduated at the University of Glasgow in 1797; emigrated to Philadelphia the same year; taught a school at Cheltenham, Pa., until the fall of’ 1798, when he was appointed a tutor in the University, of Pennsylvania; was licensed to preach June 25, 1799; ordained June 25, 1800; was pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, from 1801 to 1852; professor in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1809 to 1851; professor of, ancient languages in the University of Pennsylvania from 1828 to 1845, and emeritus professor from 1845 to 1852; vice- provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1838 to 1845; and died in Philadelphia, Oct. 13, 1852. Mr. Wylie was the author. of, The Faithful Witness fair Magistracy and Ministry upon a Scriptural Basics (Phila. 1804; Paisley, Scotland, 1806; other eds.): Covenanting (Greensburgh, Pa., 1803): First Annual Address before the Religious historical Society (Phila. 1818. 8vo): Greek Grammar (1838, 8vo): Life of the Rev. Alexander McLeod, D.D. (N. Y. i855, 8vo)9 posthumous. He was co- editor of the Presbyterian Magazine (1821-22, 2 vols. 8vo), and also contributed to periodicals. Few men have ranked higher than Dr. Wylie in classical literature and theological attainments, as a successful teacher; a good pastor, or a practical Christian (Blake, Biog. Dict. s.v.). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 9:34; McMaster, Discourse on his Life and Character (Phila. 1852, 8vo);. McLeod, Discourse, etc. (N.Y. 1852, 8v); Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac 1860, p.177. (J. L. S.)<\/p>\n
Wylie, Samuel Brown, D.D., LL.D a Reformed Presbyterian divine and author, was born at Moalarg, near Ballymena, County of Antrim, Ireland, May 21,1773. He graduated at the University of Glasgow in 1797; emigrated to Philadelphia the same year; taught a school at Cheltenham, Pa., until the fall of’ 1798, when he was appointed a tutor … Continue reading “Wylie, Samuel Brown, D.D., LL.D”<\/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-94956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94956","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=94956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}