[1] Bate became a disciple of John Hutchinson, and was a prominent member of the Hutchinsonian school.
Bate, in 1745, wrote a pamphlet called Remarks upon Mr. Warburton's remarks, showing that the ancients knew there was a future state, and that the Jews were not under an equal providence.
58) "Zany to a mountebank" (i.e., to Hutchinson), and to class him with Richard Grey as an "impotent railer".
Bate published other pamphlets in defence of Hutchinson's mysticism, and on the corresponding interpretation of the Hebrew text.
Bate also wrote, The Integrity of the Hebrew Text, and Many Passages of Scripture, Vindicated from the Objections and Misconstructions of Mr. Kennicott.