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BENSON, GEORGE (16991762)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 746 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BENSON, GEORGE (16991762) , English dissenting minister, was born at
Great
  Salkeld, in
Cumberland
 , on the 1st of September 1699, of a family which had distinguished itself in
church
  and state. He studied at a school at Whitehaven and later at the university of Glasgow. In 1722, on Calamy's recommendation, he was chosen pastor of a
congregation
  of dissenters at Abingdon, in
Berkshire
 , where he continued till 1729, when, having em-braced Arminian views, he became the choice of a
congregation
  in Southwark; and in 1740 he was appointed by the congregation of Crutched Friars colleague to the learned Dr Nathaniel Lardner, whom he succeeded in 1749. His Defence of the Reasonableness of
Prayer
  appeared in 1731, and he afterwards published paraphrases and notes on the epistles to the Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus and Philemon, adding dissertations on several important subjects, particularly (as an appendix to 1 Timothy) on
inspiration
 . In 1738 he published his History of the First Planting of the Christian Religion, in 3 vols. 4t0, a
work
  of
great
  learning and ability. He also wrote the Reasonableness of the Christian Religion (1743), the History of the Life of Jesus Christ, posthumously published in 1764, a paraphrase and notes on the seven Catholic epistles, and several other works, which gained him great reputation as a scholar .and theologian even outside his own communion and his own country. Owing to his undoubted Socinianism his works suffered neglect after his death, which occurred on the 6th of April 1762.


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