“ During the next forty years of his life he enjoyed great influence in Geneva as the advocate of a more liberal theology than had prevailed under the preceding generation, and it was largely through his instrumentality that the rule obliging ministers to subscribe to the Formula Consensus Helvetica was abolished in 1706, and the Consensus itself renounced in 1725. ”

“ See E. de Budé, François et J. Alphonse Turretini (2 vols., 1880) , and Lettres inédites à Jean Alphonse Turretini (3 vols., 1887–1888) ; F. Turretini, Notice biographique sur Bénédict Turretini (1871) ; C. Borgeaud, Histoire de l’université de Genève (1900) . ”