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Benjamin Evans (minister)

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in the neighbourhood, who distributed large numbers of tracts among members of the congregation. This compelled the minister to act on the defensive. The historian of nonconformity in Wales says that probably nothing abler was ever written on both sides of this question of baptism than the letters of
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Evans on the one side and those of Dr. William Richards of Lynn on the other. According to the same authority Evans's services to his countrymen were very great, both through the pulpit and the press.
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in Cardiganshire, 24 June 1779, where he was much beloved, and remained till his death, 3 March 1821. His first duty here was to undo the work of his predecessor, who was in sympathy with the
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Two catechisms (1) 'On the great Principles of Religion,' (2) 'On the Principles of Non- Nonconformity.’
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The Baptist controversy which began about 1788 was originated by the great activity of a few
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Translation of a sermon on the gunpowder explosion at Chester, by Dr. J. Jenkins, 1772
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1788; second edition, with additions in reply to Dr. Richards, 1789.
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Translation of the Rev. Matthias Maurice's 'Social Religion,' 1797
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A poem on baptism in reply to the Rev. Benjamin Francis, 1790
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before he was allowed to conduct the services in peace.
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Meline, Pembrokeshire
Llanuwchllyn
King's Bench
mandamus
Haverfordwest
Drewen
Arminian
Llwynrhydowen
Baptists
"Evans, Benjamin"
Dictionary of Welsh Biography
National Library of Wales
"Evans, Benjamin" 
Dictionary of National Biography
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Evans, Benjamin
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People from Pembrokeshire
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19th-century British Christian theologians
19th-century Welsh theologians

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