1680–1732

Introduction

Born: 1680, Shep­ton Mal­let, So­mer­set, Eng­land.

Died: 1732, Shep­ton Mal­let, So­me­rset, Eng­land.

Buried: Meet­ing house, Shep­ton Mal­let, So­mer­set, Eng­land.

Biography

After stu­dy­ing for the min­is­try un­der John Moore of Bridge­wa­ter, Browne be­came pas­tor of an In­de­pen­dent church in Ports­mouth, then, in 1716, of the In­de­pen­dent Cha­pel in Old Jew­ry, Lon­don.

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His lat­er years were cloud­ed by a pe­cul­iar de­lu­sion in which he im­ag­ined that God had in a gra­du­al man­ner an­ni­hi­lat­ed in him the think­ing sub­stance, and ut­ter­ly di­vest­ed him of con­scious­ness. How­ev­er, he was still a pro­di­gious writ­er, pro­duc­ing 20 ti­tles.

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