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PHILIP DODDRIDGE (1702-1751)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 369 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIP See also:DODDRIDGE (1702-1751)  , See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born in See also:London on the 26th of See also:June 1702 . His See also:father, See also:Daniel See also:Doddridge, was a London See also:merchant, and his See also:mother the See also:orphan daughter of the Rev . See also:John Bauman, a Lutheran clergyman who had fled from See also:Prague to See also:escape religious persecution, and had held for some See also:time the mastership of the See also:grammar school at See also:Kingston-upon-See also:Thames . Before he could read, his mother taught him the See also:history of the Old and New Testament by the assistance of some See also:blue Dutch See also:chimney-tiles . He afterwards went to a private school in London, and in 1712 to the grammar school at Kingston-upon-Thames . About 1715 he was removed to a private school at St Albans, where he was much influenced by the Presbyterian See also:minister, See also:Samuel See also:Clarke . He declined offers which would have led him into the See also:Anglican See also:ministry or the See also:bar, and in 1719 entered the very liberal See also:academy for dissenters at Kibworth in See also:Leicestershire, taught at that time by the Rev . John Jennings, whom Doddridge succeeded in the ministry at that See also:place in 1723, declining overtures from See also:Coventry, See also:Pershore and London (Haberdashers' See also:Hall) . In 1729, at a See also:general See also:meeting of Non- conformist ministers, he was chosen to conduct' the academy established in that See also:year at See also:Market Harborough . In the same year he received an invitation from the See also:independent See also:congregation at See also:Northampton, which he accepted . Here he continued his multifarious labours; but the See also:church seems to have de-creased, and his many engagements and bulky See also:correspondence interferedseriously with his See also:pulpit See also:work, and with the discipline of his academy, where he had some 200 students to whom he lectured on See also:philosophy and See also:theology in the mathematical or Spinozistic See also:style . In 1751 his See also:health, which had never been See also:good, See also:broke down, and he sailed for See also:Lisbon on the 3oth of See also:September of that year; but the See also:change was unavailing, and he died there on the 26th of See also:October .

His popularity as a preacher is said to have been chiefly due to his " high susceptibility, joined with See also:

physical advantages and perfect sincerity." His sermons were mostly See also:practical in See also:character, and his See also:great aim was to cultivate in his hearers a spiritual and devotional See also:frame of mind . He laboured for the attainment of a See also:united Nonconformist See also:body, which should retain the cultured See also:element without alienating the uneducated . His See also:principal See also:works are, The Rise and Progress of See also:Religion in the Soul (1745), which best illustrates his religious See also:genius, and has been widely translated; The See also:Family Expositor (6 vols., 1739-1756), See also:Life of See also:Colonel See also:Gardiner (1747); and a Course of Lectures on Pneumatology, See also:Ethics and Divinity (1763) . He also published several courses of sermons on particular topics, and is the author of many well-known and justly admired See also:hymns, e.g . "0 See also:God of See also:Bethel, by whose See also:hand." In 1736 both the See also:universities at See also:Aberdeen gave him the degree of D.D . See See also:Memoirs, by Rev . See also:Job See also:Orton (1766) ; Letters to and from Dr Doddridge, by Rev . See also:Thomas See also:Stedman (179o) ; and Correspondence and See also:Diary, in 5 vols., by his See also:grandson, John Doddridge See also:Humphreys (1829) . The best life is See also:Stanford's See also:Philip Doddridge (188o) . See also:Dodd-See also:ridge's academy is now represented by New See also:College, See also:Hampstead, in the library of which there is a large collection of his See also:manuscripts . I . See also:Flower removed from 2, Calyx .

3 . Ovary cut across . 4 . See also:

Fruit enveloped by a persistent corolla . 5 . See also:Seed . 6 . Embryo . 1-6 enlarged . c, See also:stem of See also:host . d, stem of Cuscuta . h, haustoria .

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