THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
(London, 1900); and A Boy's Religion from Memory (Philadelphia, 1902).
JONES, SAMUEL: 1. One of the founders of Welsh nonconformity; b. near Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, Wales, 1628; d. at Llangynwyd (15 m. w.n.w. of Cardiff), Glamorganshire, Sept. 7, 1697 He studied at Oxford (B.A., 1652; M.A., 1654), first at Merton College, from which he was expelled in 1648 for refusing to submit to the parliamentary board of visitors, and afterward at Jesus College, where he was elected fellow in 1652 and bursar in 1655. In 1657 he was given Presbyterian ordination and inducted to the living of Llangynwyd. On the passing of the Act of Uniformity in 1662 he was ejected from his living and subsequently imprisoned, but in 1672 he was licensed to preach in four private houses besides his own. About this time he established in his farmhouse the first nonconforming theological academy in Wales. In 1689 Jones' school was selected as one of the places for the education of the exhibitioners of the Presbyterian board. To this institution the present Carmarthen Presbyterian College traces its origin. Jones is described by Calamy as " a great philosopher, a considerable master of the Latin and Greek tongues, and a pretty good Orientalist." He was also a poet of some reputation.
Bibliography: Samuel Palmer, Nonconformists' Memorial, ii. 624, London, 177S; T. Rees, Hist, of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales, pp. 163, 177, 230-242, ib,, 1883; DNB, xxx. 160-161.
2. Non-conformist tutor in England; b., probably in Pennsylvania, c. 1680; d. in England 1719. He was the son of one Malachi Jones, a Welsh preacher who had emigrated to America. He studied under private tutors in England and in 1706 entered the University of Leyden, where he became the pupil of Herman Witsius and Jacob Perizonius. A few years later he opened an academy at Gloucester, which in 1712 he removed to Tewkesbury. By this time his school had attained considerable repute and numbered among its pupils Joseph Butler, Samuel Chandler, and Thomas Seeker. It was from here that Butler carried on his anonymous correspondence with Samuel Clarke (1675-1729). In 1714 the Presbyterian board began to send pupils to Jones. With the exception of two Latin disputations (Leyden, 1708) Jones published nothing. A manuscript copy of his Latin lectures on Jewish antiquities has been preserved. Samuel Clarke gave various transcripts of Jones' lectures to Philip Doddridge, for use in his academy.
Bibliography: Walter Wilson, in Monthly Repository, 1809, pp. 651-652; DNB, xxx. 161 (where other notices are indicated).
JONES, SAMUEL PORTER: Methodist Episcopal Church, South; b. in Chambers County, Ala., Oct. 16, 1847; d. near Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 15, 1900. He was educated by private tutors and in boarding-schools, and, after serving in the Confederate Army in the Civil War, was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1869. He became addicted to liquor, however, and his career as a lawyer was seriously affected. He was converted in 1872 and was admitted to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the same year. He
held various pastorates from 1872 to 1880, after which he was agent of the North Georgia Orphanage (1880-92). From that time until his death he was extremely active as a revivalist and advocate of total abstinence, and became one of the bestknown Evangelists in the United States, attracting popular attention by his unconventional addresses which abounded with witty and pregnant sayings. He wrote: Sermons and Sayings (Nashville, Tenn. 1883); Music Hall Series (Cincinnati, O., 1886); Quit your Meanness (1886); Sam Jones' Own Book (1887); St. [Louis Series (1890); and Thunderbolts (1895). '
JONES, WILLIAM, OF NAYLAND: English theologian; b. at Lowick (19 m. n.e. of Northampton), Northamptonshire, July 30, 1726; d. at Nayland (14 m. s.s.w. of Ipswich), Suffolk, Jan. 6, 1800. He studied at the Charterhouse and at University College, Oxford (B.A., 1749). Here, largely through the influence of his friend, George Home, he adopted the views of John Hutchinson (q.v.). After his graduation he was curate for a number of years, first at Finedon, afterward at Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire. In 1764 he was presented to the vicarage of Bethersden, and in 1765 to the rectory of Pluckley, both in Kent. On June 22, 1775, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1777 he obtained the perpetual curacy of Nayland, Suffolk, and exchanged Pluckley for Paston, Northamptonshire. Thenceforth he resided at Nayland and came to be known as Jones of Nayland. In 1788 he became chaplain to George Home (bishop of Norwich). He was the originator, though not the editor, of the British Critic, a theological quarterly, of which the first number appeared in London in May, 1793. In 1798 he was presented by Archbishop Moore to the sinecure rectory of Hollingbourne, Kent. Jones was a man of vast learning and sound piety, and one of the most prominent churchmen of his time. The school represented by him is regarded as forming a link between the non-jurors and the Oxford school. His works, some forty in number, are written from the Hutchinsonian point of view. The best-known are: The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity (Oxford, 1756; ed. J. L. F. Russell, London, 1866; published by S.P.C.K., 1899); An Essay on the First Principles of Natural Philosophy (Oxford, 1762); Physiological Disquisitions (London, 1781); Lectures on the Figurative Language of the Holy Scripture (17S(i; new ed., 1863); An Essay on the Church (1787; new ed., 1863); and Memoirs of George Home
(1795). William Stevens collected and edited his Works (12 vols., 1801; reprinted in 6 vols., 1810). Some of his tracts were reprinted under the title, Tracts on the Church (Oxford and London, 1850).
Bibliography: W. Stevens, A Short Account of the Life and Writings of William Jones, London, 1801; John Hunt, Hist, of Religious Thought in England, iii. 306-319, ib. 1873; L. Stephen, Hist, of English Thought in the im Century, viii. 18-20, xii. 89, 2 vols., New York, 1881; J- H. Overton, The Church in England, ii. 258, 290-291, London. 1897; J. H. Overton and F. Relton, The English Church (1714-1800), pp. 206-207 et passim, ib. 1906; DNB, xxx. 177-178.
JONES, WILLIAM BASIL: Bishop of St. Davids; b. at Cheltenham Jan. 2, 1822; d. at Abergwili (2 m. n.e. of Carmarthen), Wales, Jan. 14, 1897. From