Jones, Joel, a celebrated laj' writer on theological subjects, and jurist by profession, was born of Puritan ancestry at Coventry, Conn., Oct. 26, 1795. and educated at Yale College, where lie graduated in 1817. He was one of the judges of the Pliiladolphia District Court, and later mayor of Philadelphia. In 1848 he was elected president of Girard College, and he held that position for two years. He died Fob. 3, 1860. Distin- guished for his great legal abilities, judge .Jones deserves a place in our work on account of his extended re- searches in the Biblical department. His acquirements extended far beyond the widest range of professional at- tainment. Judge Jones wrote extensively for literary journals and quarterlies ; he also published largely. Of special interest to the theological student are, Slo>\i/ of Joseph, or Patriarchal Age (originally published for the use of Girard College students): — The Knowledge of One A no/her in the Future State : — Xotes on Scripture (publislifd by his widow, Phila. 1860). He also edited several ICnglisli works on Prophecy, which he published under the title oi Literalist (5 vols. 8vo), enriched with many valuable additions of his own; and translated from the French, Outlines of a History of the Court of Home and of the Temporal Power of the Popes (to which he appended many original notes). Judge Jones was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church, and held posi- tions in various ecclesiastical boards, where his services were greatly prized. See Princeton Review, Index, ii, 219 s<|.
Jones, John (I), an English Roman Catholic the- oliigian. was born at London in 1575. He studied at St. John's College, Oxford, where he roomed with Laud, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury. Having turned Roman Catholic, he went to Spain, completed his stud- ies at the University of Compostello, and became a Benedictine under tlie name of Leander a Sancto- Martiuo. After teaching for a wiiile Hebrew and theology in the College of St. Vedast, he returned to England at the invitation of Land, and died at Lon- don, Dec. 17, 1036. He wrote Sacra A rs Memoria>. ad Scripturas divinas in promptu habe7idas accoii»>,I,,/,i (Douay, 1623, 8vo) :— ConeiVuj/jo locornm convian/lum tolius Srripturce (Douay, 1023, 8vo). He also pnbli.sli- cd some editions of the Bil)lc, with interlinear glosses (6 vols, fol.) ; of the works of Blosius ; of Arnobe, A dversus Gentes (Douay, 1634) ; and worked with P. Reyner on the Apostolatus Benedictinorum. Sec Wood, A thena; Ox- ontensL'>, vol. i ; Dodd, Ch. History ; Hocfer, JVouv. Bion. Generale, xKvi,dOo. (J.N. P.)
Jones, John (2), an English Protestant divine, was born ni Mio. He was educated at Worcester College, (>xford, and onlained in 1726. Having become vicar ot Aconliury, he resigned in 1751. to take the rectory of B<>ulne Hurat, Bedfordshire. His death was caused bv a faU from his horse; the time of its occurrence is nJt
recorded. He wrote [Anon.] Free and candid Disquisi- tions relating to the Church of England, etc. (Loud. 1749- 50, 8vo) : this work produced a great controversy, last- ing several j^ears : — Cursoi-y Animadversions upon '■^Free and CantlidDisquisitions," etc. (Lond. 1753, 8vo) •.—Cath- olic Faith and Practice (1765). See Nichols, Literary Anecdotes; Loiulon Gentl. Magazine, Ixxxi, pt. i, p. 510 sq. i Allibone, Diet. Engl, and Am.Auth. ii, s. v.
Jones, John (3), LLJ)., a Welsh Socinian divine and philological writer, was born in Caermarthenshire, and educated at the Unitarian New College, Haclcney. In 1792 JUr. Jones was appointed classical and mathe- matical teacher in the Welsh Academy, Swansea, which situation he held about three years, and then settled at Plymouth Dock over the Unitarian congregation. In 1797 he became minister of the Unitarian congregation at Halifax, in Yorkshire, and about 1800 he removed to London, where he resided during the remainder of his life, chiefly occupied as a classical teacher, and preach- ing only occasionally. He died January 10, 1827. A few years before his death he received the diploma of LL.D. from tlie University of Aberdeen. Dr. Jones was the author of several works, some of which are re- ligious, chiefly in support or defence of the evidences of Christianity. Of these the most important are Illustra' iions of the Four Gospels, founded on cii-cumstances pe- culiarto our Lord and the Evangelists (Lond. 1808, 8vo) : —Ecclesiastical Researches, or Philo ami Josephus proved to be historians and apologists of Christ, etc. (London, 1812— a sequel, 1813, 2 vols. Svo):— Epistle to the Ro- mans analyzed (1802, Svo) -.—New Version of the Epis- tles to the Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and the general Epistle of James (18l9'-'20,l2mo):—Neiv Ver- sion ofthejirst three Chapters of Genesis (1819, 8vo). He also wrote a number of philological works which are considered valuable. It may not be out of place here to state that Dr. Jones was the first English philologian who taught Greek by the medium of the English in- stead of the Latin. See Lond. Gentl. Mag. April, 1827 ; Engl. Cyclop, s. v. ; Allibone, Diet. Engl, and Am. A ulh. ii, s. v.
Jones, John M., a IMethodist Episcopal minister and native of England, was born about 1810. He was educated a Romanist in France, and while young emi- grated first to Canada and then to INIaryland, where he was a teacher in a Romish institution in St. George's County. He was converted to Protestantism in 1834, and two years after entered the Baltimore Conference, and "for twenty j'ears pursued the ministerial calling, laboring day and night with quenchless zeal to rescue souls from death." He died at South Baltimore Sta- tion April 20. 1855. He " was a man of rare excellence and many virtues," of dee]i piety, and an able and de- voted minister. — Conf. Minutes, vi, 201. (G. L. T.)