Élie Benoit

See also: Benoit

Élie Benoit , or Benoist , born with Paris the January 20th 1640 and died in Delft the November 15th 1728, was a minister and theologist Protesting.

He exerted during twenty years the pastoral functions with Alençon. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, it left the France and went in Holland where it accepted vocation like third Pasteur of the Walloon church with Delft. It left a great number of works whose Lettre of banished Pasteur of its country to a church which did not make its duty in the last persecution where it blames the church of Alençon to have succumbed almost without resistance and exhorts it to leave a state of hypocrisy towards God. This letter had all the discounted effect: almost all the Protestants of Alençon went to enlarge the Refuge.

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Letter of banished Pasteur of his country to a church which did not make its duty in last persecution , Cologne, 1686, in-12
Lettre with a captive gentleman for the religion , Delft, 1685, in-12
Lettre of Mr. Benoît, Minister for the R.P.R. with Alençon, the P. preacher of the Jesuits of the same city, gone back to Alençon , January 29th, 1681.

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