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Allen, James
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or a Puritan minister, was born in England in 1632. He was a fellow of New College, Oxford, but was ejected for non-conformity in 1662, came to America, and was ordained teacher of the First Church, Boston, December 9, 1668, as colleague with Mr. Davenport, who was at the same time ordained pastor. He served this church for forty years with dignity and industry, but without remarkable success. Several of his occasional sermons were printed. He died September 22, 1710. — Sprague, Annals, 1, 163. Allen, John, one of the early ministers of Massachusetts, was born in England in 1596, and was driven from his native land during the persecution of the Puritans. Removing to New England, he was settled pastor of the church at Dedham, April 24, 1639, where he continued till his death, August 26, 1671. He was a man of considerable distinction in his day. He published a defense of the nine positions, in which, with Mr. Shepard of Cambridge, he discusses the points of Church discipline, and a defense of the synod of 1662, against Mr. Chauncy, under the title of Animadversions upon the Antisynodalia (4to, 1664). — Allen, Biographical Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Authors, 1, 53.
Allen, John
chancellor of Ireland, was born in 1476, was educated at Oxford, and took his bachelor's degree at Cambridge. He soon obtained several benefices, and was sent by Archbishop Warham to Rome on ecclesiastical affairs; he spent nine years there; and, on his return, Wolsey made him his chaplain. He was made archbishop of Dublin in 1528, and soon after chancellor. He was an active assistant of Cardinal Wolsey in the spoliation of the religious houses, and was a learned canonist. Allen was murdered by Thomas Fitzgerald, son of the earl of Kildare, July 28, 1534, and his death was regarded by the people as a divine judgment upon him for having been instrumental in the destruction of forty monasteries. He wrote Epist. de Pallii Significatione, and other pieces relating to ecclesiastical subjects. — Biog. Univ. tom. 1, p. 590; Rose, Biog. Dictionary; Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.; Wood, Athenoe Oxonienses.
Allen, John
a learned layman, was born at Truro, in Cornwall, England, in 1771, and conducted for upward of thirty years a private school in London, where he died June 17, 1839. He published a work on Modern Judaism (8vo, London, 1816 and 1830). Bickersteth calls it the best work on the subject in the English language. In 1813 he published a translation of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, which has continued to be the standard English version of that great work, though it may now, perhaps (1862), be superseded by Beveridge's new translation. Allen's edition of the Institutes was reprinted at New York (1819, 4to), and often since in 2 vols. 8vo, in which form it is issued by the Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia. — Darling, Cyclopoedia Bibliographica, 1, 49; Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, 1, 53.
Allen, John
was pastor of a Baptist congregation at Spitalfields, 1764 to 1767. Engaging in business, he became involved in difficulties, was tried for forgery, and was acquitted. He subsequently went to New York, and had some reputation as a preacher there until his death. He published The Spiritual Magazine, or the Christian's Grand Treasure, wherein the Doctrines of the Bible are unfolded (Lond. 1752; reprinted, with preface by Romaine, Lond. 1810, 3 vols. 8vo); Chain of Truth, a dissertation on the Harmony of the Gospels (1764). — Wilson, Dissenting Churches, 4, 426; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliographica, 1, 49.
Allen, John
an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, June 10, 1737. He joined the Methodist Society in 1759, and in 1766 was appointed to the Manchester Circuit, and successively to the Sussex Circuit. in Staffiordshire, and others, including London, 1769; Bristol; 1772; Keighley, 1777; Leeds, 1794; Liverpool, 1795; and Bolton, 1797. In 1799 he became a supernumerary, and took up his residence in Liverpool, where he died, Feb. 20, 1810. "He had all the marks of a man of God." See Wesleyan Meth. Magazine, 1812, p. 2, 81; Minutes of British Conference, 1810.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Allen, James'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/allen-james.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
