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See also:BENSON, See also:GEORGE (1699–1762) , See also:English dissenting See also:minister, was See also:born at See also:Great Salkeld, in See also:Cumberland, on the 1st of See also:September 1699, of a See also:family which had distinguished itself in See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and See also:state. He studied at a school at See also:Whitehaven and later at the university of See also:Glasgow. In 1722, on See also:Calamy's recommendation, he was chosen pastor of a See also:congregation of dissenters at See also:Abingdon, in See also:Berkshire, where he continued till 1729, when, having em-braced Arminian views, he became the choice of a congregation in See also:Southwark; and in 1740 he was appointed by the congregation of Crutched Friars colleague to the learned Dr Nathaniel See also:Lardner, whom he succeeded in 1749. His See also:Defence of the Reasonableness of See also:Prayer appeared in 1731, and he afterwards published paraphrases and notes on the epistles to the See also:Thessalonians, See also:Timothy, See also:Titus and See also:Philemon, adding See also:dissertations on several important subjects, particularly (as an appendix to 1 Timothy) on See also:inspiration. In 1738 he published his See also:History of the First Planting of the See also:Christian See also:Religion, in 3 vols. 4t0, a See also:work of great learning and ability. He also wrote the Reasonableness of the Christian Religion (1743), the History of the See also:Life of Jesus See also:Christ, posthumously published in 1764, a See also:paraphrase and notes on the seven See also:Catholic epistles, and several other See also:works, which gained him great reputation as a See also:scholar .and theologian even outside his own communion and his own See also:country. Owing to his undoubted Socinianism his works suffered neglect after his See also:death, which occurred on the 6th of See also:April 1762.
End of Article: BENSON, GEORGE (1699–1762)
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