Baptist Anecdote

In 1824 in The New Evangelical Magazine, and Theological Review, Volume 10 a correspondent (Elimelech) includes this anecdote that he says he had from Benjamin Francis.
A poor woman, a member of a neighbouring Independent church, requested me to give her a Bible. I replied, “Yes, Mary, I have no objection to give you a Bible, but it must be on one condition.”

“Well, Sir,” said she, “ and what is it?”

“Why it is this, that you bring me one text from the New Testament that authorises Infant Baptism.”

“Yes, Sir, that I will," was her reply; and she went away apparently very much pleased with the success of her application.

The next day she came again, I said, “How do you do, Mary - have you got the text?”

“Yes, Sir,” said she, “the best I could find.”

“Well, what is it?”

She replied, with much seeming satisfaction, “It is in 1 Pet. ii. 13. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake Sir.” I do not recollect the close of this short dialogue, except that it contained a promise that the good woman should have the Bible.

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Welsh Works Gwaith Cymraeg

Aleliwia; neu hymnau perthynol i addoliad cyhoeddus a theuluaidd (1774, 1786)

Marwnod ar farwolaeth Y Parchedig John Thomas (1787)

Can ar fedydd (1788, 1790)

Iachawdwriath (1793)

Some works available on ECCO

The following are works by Francis and although apparently not online they can be accessed on ECCO

• An elegiac poem sacred to the memory of the Rev. Mr. Hugh Evans, M.A. who departed this life, March 28, 1781, in the 69th year of his age.
• An elegy on the death of the Rev. Caleb Evans D.D. who departed this life, August 9, 1791, in the fifty-fourth year of his age.
• An elegy on the death of the Reverend ... Mr. Robert Day, ... who departed this life, April the 1st, 1791,
• The Socinian champion; or, Priestleyan divinity: a poem. By Philochristos (1788)

Conflagration: A poem in four parts

The oft published poem Conflagration can be found here.

Very brief biography by Josiah Miller

FEW particulars of the life of this writer are given in a sketch by his son-in-law, the Rev. Thomas Flint, appended to A Funeral Discourse occasioned by the Death of Mr. Benjamin Francis, by John Ryland, D.D. Benjamin Francis was born in Wales, in 1734. At the age of 15 he became a member of a Baptist Church, and three years after, having shown capacity for preaching, he was sent to Bristol College, to prepare for the ministry. He was at first quite ignorant of English, but by diligence acquired it, and carried on his ministry in England; though he often visited Wales and preached in his native tongue. On leaving college, he commenced his ministry at Sodbury, but in 1757 removed to Shortwood, Gloucestershire. There the chapel was twice enlarged, in consequence of his popularity. He also preached in the neighbouring village of Minchin Hampton, where a chapel was erected in 1765. He was very earnest and devoted in his Christian life and ministry, and refused to forsake his people when attracted by an invitation to a pastorate in London. He died in faith December 14, 1799. He was the author of Conflagration - a Poem in Four Parts (1770); An Elegy on the Death of the Rev. G. Whitefield (sixth edition, 1771); and an Elegy on the Death of the Rev. Caleb Evans.

This material appears in

Singers and Songs of the Church: Being Biographical Sketches