DODDRIDGE, PHILIP (1702-1751)

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DODDRIDGE, PHILIP (1702-1751) , English Nonconformist divine, was born in London on the 26th of June 1702. His father, Daniel Doddridge, was a London merchant, and his mother the orphan daughter of the Rev. John Bauman, a Lutheran clergyman who had fled from Prague to escape religious persecution, and had held for some time the mastership of the grammar school at Kingston-upon-Thames. Before he could read, his mother taught him the history of the Old and New Testament by the assistance of some blue Dutch 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 minister, Samuel Clarke. He declined offers which would have led him into the Anglican ministry or the bar, and in 1719 entered the very liberal academy for dissenters at Kibworth in Leicestershire, taught at that time by the Rev. John Jennings, whom Doddridge succeeded in the ministry at that place in 1723, declining overtures from Coventry, Pershore and London (Haberdashers'

Hall

). In 1729, at a general meeting of Non-
conformist ministers, he was chosen to conduct' the academy established in that year at Market Harborough. In the same year he received an invitation from the independent congregation at Northampton, which he accepted. Here he continued his multifarious labours; but the church seems to have de-creased, and his many engagements and bulky correspondence interferedseriously with his pulpit

work

WORK

, and with the discipline of his academy, where he had some 200 students to whom he lectured on philosophy and theology in the mathematical or Spinozistic style. In 1751 his health, which had never been good, broke down, and he sailed for Lisbon on the 3oth of September of that year; but the

change

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was unavailing, and he died there on the 26th of October. His popularity as a preacher is said to have been chiefly due to his " high susceptibility, joined with physical advantages and perfect sincerity." His sermons were mostly

practical

PRACTICAL

in character, and his great aim was to cultivate in his hearers a spiritual and devotional

frame

FRAME

of mind. He laboured for the attainment of a united Nonconformist

body

BODY

, which should retain the cultured

element

ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

without alienating the uneducated. His principal works are, The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul (1745), which best illustrates his religious genius, and has been widely translated; The Family Expositor (6 vols., 1739-1756), Life of Colonel Gardiner (1747); and a Course of Lectures on Pneumatology, 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 hymns, e.g. "0 God of Bethel, by whose hand." In 1736 both the universities at Aberdeen gave him the degree of D.D.
See Memoirs, by Rev. Job Orton (1766) ; Letters to and from Dr Doddridge, by Rev. Thomas Stedman (179o) ; and Correspondence and Diary, in 5 vols., by his grandson, John Doddridge Humphreys (1829). The best life is Stanford's Philip Doddridge (188o). Dodd-

ridge

's academy is now represented by New College,

Hampstead

HAMPSTEAD

, in the library of which there is a large collection of his manuscripts.
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3. Ovary cut across.
4. Fruit enveloped by a persistent corolla.
5. Seed.
6. Embryo. 1-6 enlarged.
c, stem of host.
d, stem of Cuscuta.
h, haustoria.
(After Dodel-Port.)

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