John Brine (1703–1765) was an English Particular Baptist minister.

Life

Born in

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, Brine was called into the ministry by the church at Kettering and after occasional preaching there for some time, he received a call to become pastor at a Particular Baptist church at

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. In 1730, he received a call to succeed William Morton, as pastor of the Baptist congregation at Curriers' Hall,

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, in London. His ministry continued there for the next thirty-five years during which time he took a principal lead in all the public activities and dialogue that concerned the Particular Baptist denomination. He died on 21 February 1765 and he was buried in

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cemetery. Although he left orders that no special funeral sermon should be preached for him, his friend, Dr John Gill did take that occasion to preach a sermon to his own congregation from 1 Corinthians 15:10 - By the grace of God I am what I am.

Works

They include: * ''The Christian Religion not destitute of Arguments, &c. … in answer to "Christianity not founded on Argument,"'' 1743. * ''The Certain Efficacy of the Death of Christ asserted'', 1743. * ''A Vindication of Natural and Revealed Religion, in answer to Mr. James Foster'', 1746. Attacks James Foster. * ''A Treatise on various subjects: controversial tracts against Bragge, Johnson, Tindal, Jackson, Eltringham, and others'' (in 2 vols.), 1750, 1756, 1766. Against Robert Bragge, John Johnson, William Eltringham, and others. A popular work, it was edited by James Upton in 1813, with some of Brine's sermons added, and a life of the author prefixed (from Walter Wilson). * ''Discourses at a Monthly Exercise of Prayer, at Wednesday and Lord's Day Evening Lectures, and Miscellaneous Discourses'' (2 vols.); * ''Funeral and Ordination Sermons and Choice Experience of Mrs. Anne Brine, with Dr. Gill's Sermon at her Funeral'', 1750. Collected together, his pamphlets fill eight volumes octavo. A complete catalogue of Brine's separate publications is given by Walter Wilson in his ''Dissenting Churches''.

References

External links

''Writings''
;Attribution 1703 births 1765 deaths 18th-century English Baptist ministers People from Kettering Hyper-Calvinism Burials at Bunhill Fields {{Christianity-bio-stub