Home, John, a Nonconformist divine, born in 1G15, was eihicatcd at Trinity College, Cambridge. He be- came successi\'ely vicar of Allhallows, Ljmn, Regis, and finally Norfolk in 1647. He was ejected for nonconfor- mity in 1002, and died in 1070. "He was a learned man, of most exemplary and primitive piety, very ready in the Scriptures, skilled in the Oriental languages, ami an Arminian in doctrine." Shortly before his ejection he published The open Boor for Man's Approach to God, or a Vindication of the Record of God concerning the Extent of the Death of Christ. His other principal works are. The Brazen Sei-pent, or God's rp-and Design — on John iii, 14, 15 (Lond. 1073, 4to) : — The best Exercise for Christians in the worst of Times, in Order to their Security against Profaneness ami Apostasy — on Jiide XX, 21 (Lond. 1071, sm. 8vo), etc.— Darling, Cyclop. Bib- liographini, i, 1543; Stoughton (John), Eccles. Hist, of England (Lond. ls7o, 2 vols. Svo), ii, 407 sq.
Horne, Melville, a Wesleyan minister, bom in England in the latter part of the last century, was orig- inally a lay preacher of the Wesleyau societies, but by the advice of his brethren he took orders in the Church of England, and went as missionary to Sierra Leone. On his retum he was made vicar of Olney, later at Mac- clesfield, and finally went to West Thurrock, Essex. He died in the early part of the present century. Home is known especially by his Letters on Missions, addressed to the Protestant Ministers of the British Churches (1794, 8vo ; reprinted at Boston, 1835), which, it is generally believed, "promjited the first counsels that leil to the formation of the London Missionary' Societj^ (comp. El- lis's Hist, of Land. Miss. Soc. i, 13-15; Stevens, Hist, of Methodism, ii, 295 sq.). He published also several of his sermons (1791-1811). and an Investigation of the Definition of Justifying Faith (1809, 12mo).
Home, Thomas Hartwell, D.D., an English Biblical scholar, born October 20, 1780, was educated at
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