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Pike, Samuel

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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an English Dissenting minister, was born at Ramsey, Wiltshire, about 1717. He became minister of a congregation at Henley-on-Thames, and in 1747 succeeded John Hill at the Three Cranes, London. He died in 1773. Pike was quite a voluminous writer. Among his many productions we mention, Thoughts on such Passages of Scripture as ascribe Affections and Passions to the Deity (Loud. 1750, 12mo): Philosophia Sacra, or the Principles of Natural Philosophy extracted from Divine Revelation (Lond. 1753, 8vo); a scarce work, written on Hutchinsonian principles: The Nature and Evidences of Saving Faith; being the substance of Four Sermons on Hebrews 11:1; Two of which were Preached at the Merchants' Lecture, Sinner's Hall. With a Preface (Lond. 1764, 8vo): Religious Cases of Conscience answered in an Evangelical Manner, or the Inquiring Christian Instructed; to which are added Replies to Thirty- two Questions, or the Professing Christian Tried at the Bar of God's Word. To which is subjoined the Character of the Happy, Honest, and Faithful Man. By Samuel Pike and Samuel Hayward (new ed. Romsey, 1819, 8vo; last Amer. ed. with an Introd. by Dr. H.A. Boardman, Phila. 1859, 12mo): Compendious Hebrew Lexicon (1766, 8vo; new ed. 1816, 8vo). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. s.v. (J.H.W.)

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Pike, Samuel'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​p/pike-samuel.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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