Author: John H. Livingston
John Henry Livingston was born in 1746 near Poughkeepsie,
New York. After his education he graduated from Yale College
with a Bachelor of Arts in 1762. He earned a Doctorate of
Theology from the University of Utrecht and was ordained into
the ministry in 1770. Subsequent to his return from the Netherlands,
Livingston served as a pastor to the Reformed Church in New
York City. In 1810 he became to be the fourth President of
Queen's College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1810
until his death in 1825.
The Dutch Reformed Church (in Dutch: Nederlandse Hervormde
Kerk) was one of many branches of churches coming out of the
Protestant Reformation in Europe in the sixteenth century.
In the following book of the Church God's name is used several
times.
