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Charles II . and at one time the number of students dmotiiitedE to forty or fifty * . On the removal of the Rev . John Sheffield to Su Thomas , Southwark , in 1697 > Mr . Bennet commenced his ministry ,, at Temple- ; Hall 3 which adjoined to the place of his bfrth ,, and
where Mr . Sheffield had formed a Society of Protestant Dissentersf . Here he officiated ^ with great acceptance to a very serious people ; till he received an invitation to succeed Dr # Gil pin , a gentleman of eminent talents and name at ' Newcastle upon Tyne ; which station he filled with great usefulness to the time of his death . On the 30 th of May , I 699-, he was , with three other young ministers , Mr . John Reynolds ^ Mr . Hand and Mr . Warren J , ordained and set apart by prayer and .
impo-* In the list of Mr . Woodhouse's pupils appear the names of tlie following gentlemen ; some of whom were of the first rank . Sir Edward Harley ' s two sons , viz . the Earl of Oxford and Auditor Harley , Henry St . John , well known in the reign of queen Ann , Thomas Foley , Esq . afterwards Lord Foley , » - — iLecchmere , Esq . Thomas Hunt , of Boreatton , Esq . and Mr , Yates , of Deanford , ^ ho was , in 1764 * the last survivor of the young gentlemen , educated at Sheriff-Hales . The Ministers brought up here "were assistants and immediate successors to the ejected Ministers : and many of them adorned eminent stations among the
dissenters ; as Mr . Spilsbury , at Kidderminster , Mr . Warren , at Coventry , Mr , » rdinando Shaw , Derby , . Mr . Tong and Mr "Newman , who both finished their ministry at Salter ' s Hall , in London . The Aristotelian and German Systems of Divinity were read at Mr , Woodhousc ' s seminary . He died in 170 Q , pastor of a congiegation at Little St Helens , Bishopsgate-Strcet , where he discharged the duties of his ministry with much acceptance and usefulness . His funeral sermon was preached ]> y Dr . Williams ; ** who , ** it was remarked by some of his pupils , ae Mr . Orton informs us , " hath said too little of him § .
f Dr . Calamy's Funeral Sermon for Mr . Sheffield , p 34 . \ Mr . John Reynolds , born Feb . 19 , 1666-7 , was the eldest son of Mr . Jo Hit Reynolds , ejected from the living of Wolverhampton , a considerable market town in the county of Stafford . He was entered when he was seventeen a scholar at Pembroke College , Oxford , where he studied four years . He spent several years , in connexion , as an assistant , with Mr . Noble , of Bristol . In 1-508 , lie accepted an invitation to Shrewsbury . After ten years service in this town , ill health
induced him to resign his pastoral office there , and he removed to Bftlinel Green , in London , where he spent nearly two years , and frequently preached for Mn Chapman , the Minister of a congregation of Dissenter * there . In 1722 , lie re-r turned into the country and fixed fiis residence at Walsall , in Staffordshire , wh ere lie spent the remainder of his days , till the 24 th Aug . 1727 , usually preaching in tlic morning for the valuable Mr . Godley , the pastor of the congregation in that town , This was a place suitable to his taste , as he coveted privacy and retirement ; though
his manners were courteous and obliging , and his conversation , though grave and serious , was oftentimes very pleasant and facetious His temper was extremely modest , humble , peaceable and very benevolent . His dharity was so munificent , that though he had a plentiful estate he saved nothing , but freely gave whatever he could spare to the poor , to whom he was-ever accessible , and received their viiite with conciliating tenderness and respect . His ministerial talents were distinguishing : his miad was replenished with divine and human literature : his love to manfc Palmer ' s Non-Conformist ' s Memorial , y . ii . p . £ 99 , 3 OO . 1 st Ed - and an accoani of tin PucepUnff Academies from tli « rcatortttion of jCharlec 11 . MH .-fcaw m < r .
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342 Memoirs of the Jiev . Benjamin Bennet .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/2/
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