Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hewlett, Ebenezer
HEWLETT, EBENEZER (fl. 1747), antitrinitarian writer, lived at the New Pales in Sun Street, without Bishopsgate, London, and was for a time employed by the East India Company. He wrote a number of theological tracts, the doctrines of which, he says, brought him ‘only poverty, disgrace, and loss of friends.’ Their titles are: 1. ‘An Answer to Mr. Tho. Chubb's Book entitled “The True Gospel of Jesus Christ,”’ 8vo, London, 1738. 2. ‘Mr. Whitefield's Chatechise. Being an Explanation of the Doctrine of the Methodists. In a Letter to Mr. Seagrave [occasioned by his answer to Dr. Trapp],’ 8vo, London, 1739. 3. ‘The Deist turned Christian, the Papist turned Protestant, and the Calvinist turned Arminian, by being undeceived concerning the Doctrine of Free Justification by Christ's Blood. By way of dialogue between E. Hewlett and a Deist,’ 8vo, London, 1740. 4. ‘Miracles real evidences of a Divine Revelation, and the influence of evil Angels carefully examin'd: in answer to Mr. Chubb's Discourse on Miracles, and Mr. Fleming's Animadversions thereon,’ 8vo, London, 1741. 5. ‘A Vindication of the Bible from the censures of the Deists and the inconsistencies of Popery and Calvinism, &c.,’ 8vo, London, 1741. 6. ‘Satisfaction by the Merits of Christ Blasphemy against God,’ 8vo, London, 1741. 7. ‘Letter to A. P.,’ 8vo, London, 1747, which was answered by A. P. in ‘A Discourse on the Trinity,’ 8vo, Reading, 1747.
[Hewlett's Works.]