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John Andrews Jones (1779\u20131868), baptist minister and author, born on 10 Oct. 1779 at Bristol, was the son of a manufacturing tobacconist. He was educated in Colston’s Charity School, Bristol (3 Sept. 1789\u201331 Dec. 1794), and was apprenticed to a Bristol merchant, but from 1801 to 1813 was employed as a bookbinder at Guildford, Surrey. In early life he was, according to his own confession, \u2018of the baneful deistical school,\u2019 but was converted to baptist principles in 1807 by John Gill, pastor of the baptist church at St. Albans, Hertfordshire. He was baptised (3 July 1808) in the old meeting-house at Guildford, and six months later began to preach in the surrounding district, and to write for the \u2018Gospel Magazine\u2019 in May 1811. After preaching informally at the church at Hartley Row, Hampshire, for nearly three years, he was ordained minister there on 13 March 1816. In 1818 he was minister for a short time of Ebenezer Chapel, Stonehouse, Devonshire, and for six months subsequently at Beccles, Suffolk. He \u2018settled\u2019 at Ringstead, Northamptonshire (1821\u20135), and was pastor of the Particular Baptist Church, North Road, Brentford, from 1825 till June 1831, when he became pastor of the chapel in Mitchell Street, Old Street, London. In 1831 his congregation removed to \u2018Jireh\u2019 Chapel in Brick Lane, Old Street, and in 1861 to East Street, City Road; Jones remained there till his death in August 1868. He was buried at Abney Park cemetery on 28 Aug. 1868. He married at Guildford, on 10 Oct. 1805, Ann (1774\u20131849), daughter of Elisha Turner of Bentley, Hampshire, by whom he left issue.<\/p>\n
Jones’s chief work is \u2018Bunhill Memorials,\u2019 London, 1849; to which a series of detached reprints of religious works by John Gill, John Owen, John Brine, and others, published by Jones between 1849 and 1854, and bearing the title \u2018Sacred Remains,\u2019 was intended to serve as an appendix. Amongst his other works were \u2018The History of the Iniquitous Schism Bill of 1714,\u2019 1843, and \u2018A Confession of Faith delivered at Hartley Row, March 13, 1816,\u2019 London, 1853. Jones also published many pamphlets, devotional tracts, and single sermons; edited many religious treatises, notably Gill’s \u2018Body of Divinity\u2019 in 1839, and engaged in 1833\u20134 in a printed controversy with Joseph Irons, independent minister of Grove Chapel, Camberwell.<\/p>\n[Jones’s Works; Baptist Messenger for 1868; Baptist Manual and Baptist Handbook; private information from the Rev. John W. Ewing, the Rev. R. A. Selby, the Rev. William Footman, and Mr. James J. Fromore.]\n