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% new congregation to have been established at the Scotch arms , from which it is believed they afterwards removed to the meetinghouse in the Castre * Garth #
But this misunderstanding might happen on the death of Dr , Gilpin , the time of which is tint recorded * , nor of course the settlement of Mr . Benjamin Bennett - , who is expressly said in his Funeral Sermon to have removed to Newcastle on the Doctor ' s death .
Under the pastoral care of this excellent man the congregation continued more than twenty years * It is matter of regret that so tittle is known bf his parentage and education : he is stated to have been
born at Willsborough , near Bosworth , in Leicestershire , where the remarkable discoveries of his early piety and zeal were long re . membered . He was first designed
for trade * but shewing a mind devoted to other objects , was allowed to follow ^ his natural inclination , nnd applied himself to study ( tinder vvliose direction is not recorded ) with uncommon diligence aftd success . He exercised the
ministry at Temple-Hall , in his native coutity , till his removal to NettcJa&tle : where his excellence
& a preacher , his diligence , fidelity aM prudence as a rrunister , and » i $ great respectability in the genera' intercourses of life , greatly cont ributed to the prosperity ,
per-* In Mr * ^ Thompson of Stockton s Kfgistcr is the following entry :- * - " Dr . JJfy fa > tihat eminent servant of God , ^^ Jnuch lamented by all , on Tuesday , t ^ - * £ > * 6 . 99 ? " But this must either " t a mistake , pr it must refer to some ***** Bf ; ailpin ; for the same Register ^^ i ^ Heitfron * a child of his being ^*^ by Djv Gilpuv
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manence and credit of this religious society , as well as , no doubt , to the attainment-of the more important purposes of its association , those of religious and moral
improvement . To this must be add . ed his eminence in the religious world at large as a learned , judicf * ous and pious writer . His " Discourses on Popery , " published
1714-j contain a good general view of the " Human Docfrines , Idolatrous Worship , Practical Immorality , Persecution and Cruelty , Polic }^ and Arts , of the Church of Home . " His " Memorial of
the Reformation / ' published in 17 ^ 0 , contains a brief history of the Reformation in England , —of the endeavours which have been made from time to time for a
further reformation , —and of British Nonconformity down to the year 1719 **; and , together with the c < Defence of it /* printed in 1723 , is still worthy of the perusal of those who wish to obtain an accurate
idea of many important transactions in the English history . In 1722 he published an excellent piece , entitled Cc Irenicum , or a Review of some late controversies
about the Trinity . Private Judgment , Church Authority , &c ; where the right of Christians to judge for themselves is vindicated , and objections to the contrary are answered : some remarks
concerning fundamentals are offered , and the certaift and only terms of peace and union are laid down . '
* Dedicated , in a fcttndsome but manly address , to the late . Lord Barrington , father of the present Bishop t > f Durham . Lord B . was thep one ^ of the re preseritatiyes of Jter ( wkk » and considered as tfita leading mefnbcr of the House-of Coa ** mons in the diluting interest .
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Hi&torp of the Hanover Sqttare Congregation , Newcastle . 515
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/3/
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