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BIOGRAPHY.
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REV . CHARLES WINTER . THE subject of these memoirs was the eldest son of Mr . Francis Winter , a farmer of the parish of Bedwellty , in Monmouthshire ^ and a member of the established church . He was born in the year 1700 . I have not learnt who were his first preceptors , but find that , at an early age , he was apprenticed to a Surgeon at Newport . His master dying soon afterwards ^ Charles returned to his father , who wished him to prepare for orders in the Church of England . But the young man was more inclined to join the Dissenters . He wished to unite himself to the Baptist denomination . His father , When he foand this ,
charged Mr . Morgan Griffiths , minister of the Baptist congregation at Hengod , not by any means to baptise his son Charles , or he would be revenged upon him in a way which needs not now -be mentioned ^ and which I trust he did not mean to adopt ; at least he never attempted any violence , even after
Charles was baptised * Soon after his voluntary and personal submission to this Christian ordinance , Mr . Winter was encouraged by some of his baptist friends , to attend the lectures of Mr . Fosget at Bristol , preparatory to his entering on the duties of the Christian
ministry ; but finding that the students ,, in the Academy at Carmarthen , had full liberty of judging for themselves ^ he chose the latter situation , and became a pupil of Mr . Perrot , thou gh his expenses there were much * greater than they would have been at Bristol *
Having finished his studies at Carmarthen , he was chosen assistant to Mr . Morgan Griffiths , by the church of Hengod , in the year 1725 , and was soon found to favour the doctrine of general redemption . Nor was he singular in this respect ; many of his fellow members entertained similar motions , inconsistent with the Baptist confession of faith .
In the year 1 T 30 , the association of the ministers and messengers of the Baptist churches in Wales was held at HengocJ , and the opinions of Mr . Winter and several of the other mem *
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No . III . ] MARCH . [ Vol . J .
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY - ¦¦ OF Theology and General Literature .
Biography.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/1/
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