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Corbet, John (1)

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at Glasgow University in 1623; became schoolmaster at Renfrew; was appointed minister at Bonhill in 1637; declined the authority of the general assembly in 1638; was deposed in April 1639, and fled to Ireland, where he played a deceitful part, for which he was "hewed in pieces by two swine-herds in the arms of his wife," in 1641, aged about thirty-eight years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:346.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Corbet, John (1)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​c/corbet-john-1.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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