pelled to Buhmit, was readmitted into the faculty, and made dean. Benoit had been confessor to the unhap- pv Mary, Queen of Scots, whom be accompanied into Scotland. He died at Paris March 7th, 1C08. He * published an immense number of works, among which may be specified, 1. Stromata in Uuirersa Biblia (Co- logne. 1508, 8vo) :— 2. .1 Catholic Apology (showing that the profession of the Protestant faith was not a sufficient and lawful reason for excluding the heir from the throne of France) :— 3. Exami n pacifique de la Doc- , Huguenots. (This curious work was printed at Caen in 1590, and is intended to show that the Council of Trent, not having heen fully received in Frame, was not of sufficient authority there to con- demn the Huguenots.)— Hoefer, Biog. Gen. v, 395.
Ben-o'ni (Heb. Ben-Oni', "OIX"?, son of my sor- row, otherwise of my strength, i. e. of my last effort, Ililler. Onomast. p. 300; Sept. translates vibg oSivne /ioi/), the name given by Rachel in her expiring breath 1,, her youngest son, in token of the death-pangs that gave him birth (Gen. xxxv, 18); afterward changed by his father to Benjamin (q. v.).
Benson, George, D.D., a learned and eminent English Dissenter, was born at Great Salkeld 1G99 ; studied at Glasgow, and settled as pastor at Abingdon about 1721. In 1729 he went to London, and in 1740 was chosen pastor of the church in Crutched Friars, where he remained until his death in 1703. He was trained a Calvini*t, but his views in later years were tinged with Arianism. He published The Design arid Pray< r (Lond. 1737, 8vo, 2d ed.) :— Paraphrase and Notes on PauVs Epistles, after Locke's Manner (Lond. 1752-56, 2 vols, ito, best ed.)-.— History of the first Planting of th Christian Religion (Lond. 1756, 2 vols. 4to, best ed.). After his death, his Life of Christ, with a memoir of the author bj' Amory, appeared | Lond. 1701, Ito).— Allibone, Lfict. of Authors, i, 166.
Benson, Joseph, one of the most eminent of the early Methodist ministers in England, was born at Melmerby, in Cumberland, .Tan. 25, 1748. His father d isigned him for tin- ministry in the Established Church, and had him taught Greek and Latin by the Rev. Mr. Dean, of Parkhead, under whom he made great proficiency. At sixteen he fell in for the first time witli the Methodists and was converted. In 1700 Mr. Wesley appointed him classical master at Kings- v. I School. He devoted himself closely to philoso- phy and theology, studying constantly and zealously. In 1769 he was made head-mast r of Lady Hunting- don's Theological < lollege at Trevecca ; but in 1771 he 1 -ft it, because of its becoming a thoroughly Calvinis- I. Mr. B ii -on was th sn, and always after, a decided Arminun. While engaged in these semi- naries h ■ -till regularly kept his terms at St. Edmund Hall, i Ki'or 1. la August, 1771. he was admitted into tb ■ M ithodist Conference, and soon became one of the in the body. He filled the chief sta- tion.. Bueh as Edinburgh, Newcastle, Sheflield, Hull, Birmingham, and London, ami crowds attended his og wherever he went. After a life of great ( leric il and literarj industry, he died Feb. 10, 1821, at
I don. Dr. Clarke oalla him "a sound scholar, a
powerful .and able preacher, and a profound theolo^i- an." Besides editing for many years the M<th>d:st Magvunt, he published .1 Drfenci of the Methods (Lond. 17:i:j, 12mo):— A Farther Defence of the Metho- dists (1791, 12inu); — Vwdiqatfan of the- Methodists
(Lond. 1S00, 8vo) : — Apology for the Methoelists (Lond. 180], 12 mo) : — Sermons on various Occasions (Lond. 1836, 2d edit. 2 vols. 12mo) :— A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures (Lond. 1848, 6th edit. 6 vols. 8v< ) :— Life of John Fit tcht r (New York, 1 vol. 8vo). His life has been twice written, once by Macdonald (New York, 8vo), and again by Treffry (New York, 12mo).
Bentham, Edward, was born at Ely in 1707, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, from whence, in 1723, he removed to Corpus Christi College, and in 1731 was chosen fellow of Oriel. In 1743 he obtained a prebend in the cathedral of Hereford. In 1749 he proceeded to D.D., and in 1754 was made can- on in his cathedral. On the death of Dr. Fanshaw he was nominated regius professor of divinit}' in the uni- versity. He died in 1776. Besides some single ser- mons, Dr. Bentham published, 1. An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, 8vo: — 2. A Letter to a young Gentle- man on Study ; with a Letter to a Fellow of a College, 8vo: — 3. Advice to a young Man of Rank upon coming to the University : — 4. Refections on Logic, with a Vindi- cation of the same, 8vo : — 5. Funeral Eulogies upon mil- itary Men, from the Greek, 8vo: — 6. De Studiis Theo- logicis J 'rm/ectio : — 7. Refections upon the Study of Di- vinity, with Heads of a Course of Lectures, 8vo: — 8. De Vita 1 1 Moribus Johannis Burton, S. T. I'. : — 9. An In- troduction to Logic, 8vo. — 10. De Tumultibus America- ids deque eorum concitatoribus similis meditalh. — Biog. Brit. ; Hook, Eccl. Biog. ii, 250.