[DOWNLOAD] "Practical Discourses On Regeneration" by Philip Doddridge # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Practical Discourses On Regeneration
- Author : Philip Doddridge
- Release Date : January 29, 2012
- Genre: Christianity,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 559 KB
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With independent religious leanings, Philip Doddridge declined offers which would have led him into the Anglican ministry or a career in law; and in 1719 chose instead to enter the Dissenting academy at Kibworth in Leicestershire. Here he was taught by John Jennings, whom Doddridge briefly succeeded in 1723. Later that year, at a general meeting of Nonconformist ministers, Philip Doddridge was chosen to conduct the academy being newly established a few miles away at Market Harborough, later known as the Daventry Academy. In the same year, he received an invitation to be pastor to an independent congregation at Northampton, which he also accepted. Here 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 in character, and his aim was to cultivate in his hearers a spiritual and devotional frame of mind.