Jenkin, Robert, an English theologian, was born at Minster, Thanet, in 1056. He studied at Canterbury and Cambridge, of which he became fellow. He was successivel}' appointed rector of St. John's College, pro- fessor of theology, and chaplain to Dr. Lake, bishop of Chichester. In 1688 he refused to take the oath re- quired of all holding benefices, and retired to private life. He died in 1727. His principal work is The Reasona- bleness of the Christian Religion (six editions; the best 1734, 2 vols. 8vo). He wrote also Examination of the Authority of Cnnral Covucils (Lond. 1688, 4to) :— Z)e- fensio sancti A ii;;ii.<Hi,i /■( rsus J. Phereponvm (London, 1707, 8vo): — Ri inarLs upon four Books just published (on Basnage's History of the Jevs, Lake's Paraph7'ase of St. Raid's Epistle, Le Clerc's Bibliotheque choisie, etc.). He also translated into English Tillemont's Life of Apollonius of Tyana. See Gorton, General Biograph. Diet. s. V. ; Hoefer, Noiiv. Bioqr. Generale, xxvi, 650 ; Allibone. Diet, of A uthors, i, 962. (J. N. P.)
Jenkin, ■William. See Jenkyn.
Jenks, Benjamin, an English divine, was born in 1646. Of his early history but little is known. He was at first rector at Harley, then at Kenley, and after- wards chaplain to the earl of Bradford. He died at Harley in 1724. He published Prayers and Offices of Devotion for Eainilies, and for particular Persons vpon most Occasions (London, 1697, 8vo; of which the 27th edition was published in 1810 by the Rev. Charles Sim- eon, fellow of King's College, Cambridge, with altera- tions and amendments in style ; there is also an edition by Barnes, 12mo, and an abridgment, 12mo) : — Submis- sion to the Righteousness of God (1700, 8vo; 4th ed. 1755, 12mo) : — Afeditntion.'s, vith short Prayers annexed (1701, 8vo ; 2d edit. 1750, 2 vols. 8vo. with a recommendatorv
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Preface by Mr. Ilcrvey): — Ouranof/raphj, or Heaven Opened (1710, 8vo) : — T/ie Poor Mail's Comjmnion, a lesser Prayer-book for Families on common Days and other Occasions (Loud. 1713, 8vo), besides a number of sermons on various topics. See iVllibone, Dictionary of A uthors, i, 903.
Jenks, Hervey, a Baptist minister, was born at Brooktielil, INIass., June 10, 1787, and was educated at Brown University. After teaching a short time at the academy at that time connected with the university, he entered the ministry, and was successively pastor at West Stockbridge, Mass., and Hudson, N. Y. ; tlicn at Hudson alone ; next at Beverly, ^lass., whence he again returned to Hudson. He died July 15, 1814. He was a young man of great promise, and, though he was only twenty-eight years old when he died, his abilities had already been generally recognised. — Sprague, A nnuk of the A merican Pulpit, vi, 587 sq.
Jenks, "William, D.D., a Congregational minis- ter of great ability and distinction, was born at Newton, Mass., in 1778, but when only four years of age his fa- ther removed to Boston. He was educated at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1707. He was first settled in the ministry over the Congregational Church in Bath, Me., wlicre lie remahied twelve years; he next filled the professorship of Oriental and English literature in Bow- doin College three years ; then he went to Boston, and was very active in originating plans to secure religious and social privileges lor seamen, till that time a neg- lected class of men. Some of tlie more prominent in- stitutions for the benefit of sailors now existing in tliat city owe their origin to him. He was pastor at the same time of the Green Street church, which he served for twenty-five years. He died Nov. 13, 1800. Dr. Jenks was one of the chief founders of the American Oriental Society, and a prominent member of the IMas- sachusetts Historical Society. He was particularly dis- tinguished as an Orientalist, and edited the Compre- hensiee Commentary on the Jfoly Bible (Brattleborougli, 183-1, 5 vols. roy. 8vo; Supplem. I vol. roy. 8vo), which " still stands without a rival for the purpose for which it was intended." He also published an Explanatory Bi hie A /lii.-< and Scripture Gazetteer (1819, 4to). See Alii- bone, /)irt. of Authors,!, 903; Appleton, Anier. Annual Cyclop. \m\. p. -l-.>(}. (J. H.W.)
Jeiikyn, Robert. See Jknkin.
Jenkyn, William, an English Nonconformist di- vine, was liorn at Sudbury, Suftblk, in 1012, and edu- cated at St, John's College, Cambridge. He first be- came lecturer of St. Nicholas Aeons, London, and in 1041 minister of Christ Church, Newgate Street, and lecturer of St, Ann's, Blackfriars. Kefusing to observe (in 100-2) the public thanksgiving appointed by Parliament on occasion of the destruction of the monarchy, lie was ejected for nonconformity. Soon after he was sent to the Tower for participation in Love's plot, but, upon pe- tition, was pardoned, and restored to the ministry. Mr. Peak, who had in the interim become minister of Clirist Church, was removed, and Mr. Jenkyn reinstated. Upon this he devoted himself with zeal to his work. On the passage of the Oxford Act he refused to take the oath, and retired from London to Hertfordsliire, wliere he preached privately. After the Act of Indulgence in 1071, he returned again to London; but when, in 1082, the tempest brolce out against the Nonconformists, he fell into the hands of his enemies, and was sent to New- gate under tlie Conventicle Act, where he died, from the air and infection of the prison, in 1085. Jenkyn enjoy- ed a very enviable reputation among his contemijora- ries for Christian piety and great abili ty. Richard Bax- ter pronounced him " a sententious and elegant preach- er." He published An Exposition <fthe Epistle of Jitde (London, 1652-54, 4to ; another eil., revised by the Kev. James Sherman, with memoir of the author, London, 1839, imp. 8vo, and often). See Alhbone, Diet, of An- thors, i, 90,'); Xonconformists'' Jftmorial; Calamv, Min- ■ IV.— !•■ K K