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. - ••• : :- " THE ^ " ' . " - " " C MONTHLY REPOSITORY f OF , ' ¦ . . . . : --S Theology and General Literature .
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No . XIX . ] JUJLY . . [ Vol . II-. ^ M ^ SZSSSSSSSBSSSESSaSSiMSMSSSSSSSS ^
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A REVIEW OF THE JLlFE , WHITINGS AND CHARACTER OF THE REV . BENJAMIN BENINTET , OF NEWCASTLE UPON TVNE . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
SlR , - • ' ¦• - . ' . . r ^ HE subject of these memoirs has a title to respectful Jl notice in the biographical department of your useful miscellany . He , deservedl y ^ , ranks auiong devotional and historical writers of peculiar merit . Mr . Benjamin Bennet , was a native of Wilsborough ^ near Market-Bosworthj in Leicestershire ^ where the remarkable indications of his early piety and zeal were remembered and spoken of with adrniratipn and pleasure to the day of his death * His mind received a religious and devotional tincture from a dangerous illness ^ with which he was attacked ^ when he was
very young . The serious impressions , which that sickhessr left on his hearty wfere carefully cultivated and improved . In the period of youth he was solicitous to raise and strengthen a sense of religion in the souls of his companions , and engaged
several to join , in convenient retirements ^ in associations for acts of devotion . He was destined for trade , but when the time came to determine on some employment , the piety of his disposition directed his views to the ministry : and / being encouraged to follow his inclinations , he applied himself closely to study , and made a rapid and conspicubus proficiency in all parts of learning subservient to the sacred office to which he devoted
himself . He pursued his academical course at a seminary of the greatest antiquity among the Nonconformists , directed by MK , John Woodhouse , silenced at Thrumpton , in Nottingham- , shire , by the act of Uniformity ; who kept an academy at Sheriff-Hales , in Shropshire , which flourished in the reign of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/1/
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