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Vition of hands * to the ministerial office at Oldbury Chapel , in Shropshire ^ by five ministers , who had been ejected from their livings by the Act of Uniformity , in 1662 * . Mr . Bennet entered on his public character with a rnind , richly replenished with divine and human learning ; and had Formed an extensive acquaintance with ancient and modern booksj of which he had a good collection . But , though the
kind was extensive : his piety was warm and lively , and his zeal for the divine glory fervent and active . He was the author of " Three Letters to a Deist , ' * " The Religion of Jesus Delineated . " < c A Discourse on Reconciliation , " and a treatise on " The Angelic World . ' * An epitaph on " Bigotry , * ' written by him in 6
Latin was translated by Dr . Watts into English * and appeared in his * Reliquise JuTeniles . " To his life is affixed «* A View of Death , a Philosophical Poem , with Notes '* His piece entitled ?« The Religion of Jesus delineated , " was meant as a contrast and supplement io Wollaston ' s celebrated and learned work entitled" The Religion of Nature delineated . " The -writer of this has met with no information concerning Mr . Hand .
Mr . Warren , who had pursued his academical studied under Mr . Woodhousc , was first Chaplain to Philip Foley , Esq . of Prestwood : from that retirement h $ wat invited to the city of Coventry , where he officiated first as assistant to Mr . Tong and then as co-pastor with Mr . Joshua Merril ; and last as sole-pastor , till he die ( J in Sep . 1742 . "He is represented to have been a man who made a very amiable figure and through whose life a general lustre was diffused ; his natural temper peing mild , obliging and humane ; his mien and address being genteel and
manly ; his conversation being rendered agreeable , from a facility and pleasantness f behaviour , a good acquaintance with men and things , and a quickness of wit . All his deportment had an air of good-will to men . Few were more assiduous in the pastoral ofti . ee . In ihe public functions of it he greatly excelled . The clearness of his thoughts , the propriety and freedom of his expression , the justness of his method and the decency or his elocution were all animated by a true sense of the importance of the things he delivered . He was much in prayer and had a happy
talent that way . His life , was prolonged to near seventy years . He died as he liv ^ d , recommending a regard to serious religion to all that came about him ; in the most pertinent and pathetic manner , expressing at the same time a deep sense of the failures of his life and a cheerful hope of a blessed immortality . " I have , ' * he said , on the day of his death , * ' that peace and comfort I would not be without , for a world . " Upon all views he had taken of religion it was his conviction that iove was so essential to it 9 that without that all our religious pretensions are vain
and insignificant . It was a striking proof of the prevailing temper of his mind , a pleasing trait in his last moments , that he desired a particular friend to improve his death by a Discourse to his congregation on these words ; ' God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love tlwelleth in God and God in him . " 1 John iv . 16 . In a paper found after his death , he had written " God is Love * &c . This is the great ground of my hope , I dwell in the love of God with all my heart , a > i < l soul , and
strength ; of the Lord J c » us Christ in sincerity : of all good people without distinction : and of all men , and even of all enemies , therefore ( shall dwell with God forever and ever . Amen . ' * This was the sentiment , which in his illness he expressed to the friend on whom he devolved the last tribute of respect to has memory . 44 that du diet h in lo < vc diuelleth in God . 1 dwell in love , and therefore I dwell in God ; and may I not conclude , I shall dwell with him ? I think , " said he , " thin conclusion is justf . '
* Memoirs of Mr . John Reynolds , p . zy . ' t Mr . Joseph Carpenter ' s Sermon upon the death of the ReT . John WaTr # n , 19 th Sep , i # r * P . 1 . 26—3 U . "
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H&cmoirs ' of the Rev . Bemjamui Bennei . 343
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/3/
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