Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge
Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) was an English Nonconformist minister, educator, and prolific writer. He is best known for his devotional work "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul" (1745), which had a profound influence on Evangelical thought. Doddridge also authored many hymns, including "O Happy Day," and served as principal of a dissenting academy at Northampton, where he trained ministers. His writings emphasized personal piety, moral reform, and a commitment to Christian education.

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CHAPTER I. PARENTAGE AND EARLY DAYS. When I promised the public some larger account of the life and character of this illustrious person, than I could conveniently insert in my sermon on the sad occasion of his death, I was secure, that if Providence continued my capacity of writing, I should not wholly disappoint the expectation; for I was furnished with a variety of particulars which appeared to me... more...

THE PREFACE. THE Discourse which I now offer to the Publick was drawn up on a very sorrowful Occasion; the Death of a most desirable Child, who was formed in such a Correspondence to my own Relish and Temper, as to be able to give me a Degree of Delight, and consequently of Distress, which I did not before think it possible I could have received from a little Creature who had not quite compleated her... more...