Nonconformists and Home Mission

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Abstract

In 1742, Philip Doddridge, the Independent minister at Northampton, and without doubt the most prominent English Dissenting minister of his day, published The Evil and Danger of Neglecting the Souls of Men. The text of a sermon preached to fellow dissenting ministers in Kettering, Doddridge passionately made the case for the formation of voluntary societies ‘towards assisting in the Propagation of Christianity Abroad, and spreading it on some of the darker Parts of our own Land’. Some, he wrote, ‘who once were our Hearers, and it may be our dear Friends too, have perished through our Neglect . . . Multitudes to this day surround us, who stand exposed to the same Danger, and on the very brink of the same Ruin. ’ Preaching as population levels in Britain were beginning to grow rapidly and the drift from the countryside to the towns and cities was accelerating, Doddridge’s generation responded...
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationT&T Clark Companion to Nonconformity
EditorsRobert Pope
PublisherBloomsbury
Pages353-380
Number of pages28
ISBN (Print)9780567505262, 9780567669933
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Oct 2013

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