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Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge 1702-51, English nonconformist minister and noted hymn writer. His Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul (1745) has been much translated. His many hymns include "Awake, My Soul, Stretch Every Nerve" and "O Happy Day, That Fixed My Choice." Doddridge's Correspondence and Diary (5 vol., 1829-31) was edited by his great-grandson.

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Doddridge, Philip (1702–51), a Nonconformist divine, celebrated hymn-writer, and author of The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul (1745), a much reprinted work notable for its literary as well as its devotional quality. He published a life of Col. James Gardiner (1747), who figures in Scott's Waverley.

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Doddridge, Philip (1702–51), Dissenting cleric and hymn-writer. He entered the Dissenting Academy at Kibworth, Leics. In 1729 the Academy was reconstituted at Northampton under Doddridge, who became minister of an important Dissenting congregation in the town. ‘Ordained a presbyter’ in 1730 by 8 ministers, 5 of them Presbyterians, he sought to obliterate party lines and in 1748 suggested an interchange of pulpits with C of E clergy. He welcomed the first stirrings of the Evangelical Revival, and was among the pioneers of modern missionary enterprise. His many hymns include ‘Hark the glad sound! the Saviour comes’ and ‘O God of Bethel, by Whose hand’.

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