Witherspoon, John, Scottish theologian, born at Tester; was minister at Paisley; became president of the college at New Jersey, U.S.; died at Princeton; wrote “Ecclesiastic Characteristics” against the Moderates, also on justification and regeneration (1722‒1794).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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