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Bruce, John
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or an English Congregational minister was born at Great Grimsby, July 7, 1782. At thirteen years of age he was apprenticed to a linen draper at Pontefract; when sixteen years old he wrote A Meditation on Death, published in the Evangelical Magazine; and when about eighteen he entered Homerton College. On leaving college he was ordained, and became assistant minister at Newington Chapel, Liverpool. In 1807 he accepted a call to Newport, Isle of Wight, and eventually removed to Liverpool, where he died in January 1874. Mr. Bruce published, Twenty Sermons to Aid in Private and Family Devotions: — Dorcas; or, Female Christian Benevolence Exemplified: — The Abrahamic Covenant: — and various other minor treatises. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1876, page 319.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Bruce, John'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/b/bruce-john.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
