The Evil and Danger of Neglecting the Souls of MenPhilip Doddridge (1702 1751), pastor of a Congregationalist church in Castle Hill, Northampton, is most remembered today as a hymn writer and author of the spiritual classic The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul (1745). However, Doddridge was also a leading figure in biblical education, both for pastors and children, a founder of the Sunday school movement, and a pivotal character in revival and religious reform. He served as an evangelical

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rather than discovering the meaning of the text in the sweep of God’s redemptive plan

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• God's sovereignty

The inherent contradictions of a practice based on despair appear with a clarity that perhaps no philosopher or theologian could give them

and serves on the Biblical Counseling Coalition’s board of directors

how it manifests in our lives in different ways

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the excellent scholarship comes in readable prose