Christian Biography: The Life of the Rev. John Brown, of Haddington, Scotland; Revised and Enlarged. New York: John P. Haven, Am. Tract House, 142 Nassau Street, 1830. [9724]
Green cloth with brown leather spine title label, old paper library label to spine, 5 3/4 x 3 3 /4 inches, 144 pp., foxing, tight. Good. Hardcover.
A biography that uses excerpts from Rev. Brown's diary, revealing his thoughts.
John Brown (1722-1787) Scottish Presbyterian minister of the Associate Synod. Brown “was entirely self-taught: by great perseverance he acquired a considerable knowledge of Latin and Greek; with Hebrew he became critically conversant. He could also read and translate the French, Italian, German, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, and Ethiopic; but all these were subordinate to his favorite study of divinity, in which he became eminently skilled, as well as in history, both ecclesiastical and civil. He passed a long life as Professor of Divinity to the Succession Church of Scotland, and minister of a large congregation at Haddington.” – Allibone.
Brown is best remembered to day for his Self-Interpreting Bible, and his Bible Dictionary.
