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Miller, John

soldier, clergyman, author, was born April 6, 1819, in Princeton, N. J. He was a presbyterian clergyman who was a colonel in the confederate army during the civil war, and who lived in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1871. He was tried for heresy, but allowed to withdraw from the presbytery, and subsequently established several independent churches in the vicinity of Princeton. He was the author of Design of the Church; Commentary on the Proverbs; Fetich in Theology: Metaphysics; Are Souls Immortal?; Was Christ in Adam?; Is God a Creed?; Theology; and Commentary on Romans. He died in 1895.

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