Sermons and Religious Tracts of the Late Reverend Philip Doddridge (Volume 3) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1761. Excerpt: ... THE Scripture-Doctrine O F SALVATION by GRACE through Fa1th, Illustrated and Improved in Two SERMONS: The Substance of which was Preached at ROWELL in Northamptonshire. T 0 T H E CHURCH and CONGREGATION O F PROTESTANT DISSENTERS At R 0 W E L L, To whom the Substance of these Sermons was preached, and at whose Desire they are published. My Dear Brethren and Friends beloved in our common Lord, H E N I sirst preached these plain Sermons to my own Congregation, which I here offer to your Perufal, I was much surprized at the Request which several of them made, that they might be printed: But I was yet more surprized, when after having delivered the Substance of them in One Discourse at Rowell some Time after, you so unanimously and affectionately made that Request your own. I apprehended, that tho' the many excellent Treatises we have on this Subject already, might excuse my Backwardness to comply with the First Motion of this Kind j yet absolutely to have refused your repeated Solicitation might have appeared disrespectful to my good Friends, and perhaps have rooked like some Unwillingness to bear my Testimony to this great and important Doctrine in an Age, in which the Credit ofmany Evangelical Truths seems to be fallen very low. I am really sorry, I have delayed this little Service so long; butitvti.s chiefly owing to my Desire of sinishing my Sermons on Regeneration, which indeed cost me more Labour than I at sirst apprehended. That seem'd a Business of such Importance, that I knew not how to interrupt it: But as they are now almost printed off, I fend out these Discourses as a Kind of Supplement to them; and therefore they are printed in a Form very sit to bind up with them. The Delay is more excufable, as Salvation By Grace is not a Subject which grows ...