______________. The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, P. T. Jones Publishing Agent, 1843.

Doddridge (1702-1751), was an evangelical dissenting minister in Northampton, England. After his death, his wife published these volumes in 1760-1762, though Doddridge originally drafted the books in 1738 (vol. I), 1740 (vol. II), and 1746-1750 (vols. V-VI).

These four volumes include paragraph-by-paragraph commentary on the New Testament, often including line-by-line exegesis. For each New Testament text, the "new Version" (e.g. Authorized Version—King James Version) is quoted alongside Doddridge’s paraphrase of the text. In the paraphrases, Doddridge italicizes quotations from the King James text. Also included for each biblical section is Doddridge’s "Improvement" discussions, which are expository and practical interpretations of the text.

Possibly, the most important material in the commentary is Doddridge’s notes, which are printed at the bottom of the page. In the notes, Doddridge cites lexical, historical, theological, and textual issues, including various patristic sources and occasional New Testament Greek manuscript differences .

Specifically related to Matt. 28:18-20, Doddridge refers to the passage as "the Commission," referring to the universal nature of the Christian message, and he insists upon "adult baptism" being the sense of the text. Also, Doddridge points out the Authorized Version’s mistranslation of Matt. 28:19, "teach all nations." Suggesting that the translation of the verb maqhteusate should not "confound" with the use of didaskonteV ("teaching") in the next verse (28:20), Doddridge renders 28:19 as "proselyte all nations." He says (Vol. II, p. 668),

(l) Proselyte all the Nations of the Earth.] The whole Tenour of the succeeding Books of the New Testament shews, that Christ designed by this Commission, that the Gospel should be preached to all Mankind without Exception, not only to Jews, but to all the idolatrous Gentiles: But the Prejudices of the Apostles led them at first to mistake the Sense, and to imagine, that it referred only to their going to preach the Gospel to the Jews among all Nations, or to those who should be willing to become Jews.—I render the Word maqhteusate, proselyte, that it may be duly distinguished from didaskonteV, teaching, (in the next Verse,) with which our Version confounds it. The former seems to import Instruction in the Essentials of Religion, which it was necessary adult Persons should know and submit to, before they could regularly be admitted to Baptism; the latter may be related to those more particular Admonitions in Regard to Christian Faith and Practice, which were built upon that Foundation.—It is certain, that no Argument can be drawn from hence to the Prejudice of Infant Baptism; for had Christ sent out these Missionaries to propagate Judaism in the World, he might have used the same Language; "Go, and proselyte all Nations, circumcising them in the Name of the God of Israel, and teaching them to observe all that Moses commanded."

--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.

Edwards, Jonathan. An Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and Visible Union of God’s People in Extraordinary Prayer. Northampton: T. Dicey, 1789.

*______________. A Narrative of the Revival of Religion in New England; with Thoughts on that Revival. By Jonathan Edwards, A. M. With an Introductory Essay, by John Pye Smith, D. D. Homerton. Glasgow: Printed for William Collins; William Whyte & Co. and William Oliphant, Edinburgh; W. F. Wakeman; and Wm. Curry, Jun. and Co. Dublin; Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot; Hamilton, Adams & Co. [;] Simpkin and Marshall; Baldwin & Cradock; and Hurst, Chance, & Co. London, 1829.

_________. An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame. London: J. Duncan, 1831; Andover, N. Y.: Gould, Newman and Saxton, 1840.

*_________.  The Nature of True Virtue.  Foreword by William K. Frankena.  Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1960.

*Estwick, Nicholas. A Learned and Godly Sermon Preached on the XIX. Day of December, Anno. Dom. MDCXXXI. at the Funerall of Mr. Robert Bolton, Batchelour in Divinity and Minister of Broughton in Northampton-shire. By Mr. Nicholas Estwick, Bachelour in Divinity and Sometimes Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge, and Now Minister of Warkton in Northampton-shire. Revised and Somewaht Enlarged by teh Author, and Now at the Importunity of Some Friends Published. London: Printed by George Miller dwelling in Black-Friers, 1639.

*Evangelical Biography, being a Complete and Faithful Account of the Lives, Sufferings, Experiences & Happy Deaths, of Eminent Christians ~ Who have shone with Distinguished Lustre.  Vol. 1.  London: Printed for I. Stratford, 1807.

Some of the more famous biographies included are: Richard Baxter, Theodore Beza, David Brainerd, Martin Bucer, Henry Bullinger, John Bunyan, John Calvin, Miles Coverdale, William Cowper, and Thomas Cranmer.

-Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.

Evans, Caleb. The Kingdom of God: A Sermon... Preached before the Bristol Education Society, August 16, 1775. Bristol: Printed and Sold by W. Pine, 1775.

*_________. Christ Crucified; or the Scripture Doctrine of the Atonement Briefly Illustrated and Defended. In Four Discourses upon that Subject. By Caleb Evans, M. A. Bristol: Printed by William Pine. Sold in London by Buckland, Button, and Reynolds; and in Bristol by Browne, Evans and Allen, James at the Circulating Library, and other Booksellers, 1789.

*Evans, C. Stephen. The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith: the Incarnational Narrative as History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Evans considers, in another connection, matters of implicit concern to Carey scholarship.  These include "a paradox that lies at the heart of the moral life," namely that those who are most "morally advanced" struggle with "feelings of guilt and moral inadequacy (84-86)."  He also considers the problem, well known to Carey, of whether "accidents of history and geography... decide the eternal destiny of an individual (103)."  He also concerns himself with the doctrine of election (113).

--Myron C. Noonkester 

*Flavell, John. Divine Conduct.: or, the Mysterie of Providence. Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence is Asserted and Vindicated: The Methods of Providence as it Passes through the Several Stages of our Lives Opened; and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Directed, in a Treatise upon Psalm 57. Ver. 2. By John Flavell, Preacher of the Gospel. London: Printed for R. W. for Francis Tyton at the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet, 1678.

*___________. Divine Conduct.: or, the Mysterie of Providence. Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence is Asserted and Vindicated: The Methods of Providence as it Passes through the Several Stages of our Lives Opened; and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Directed, in a Treatise upon Psalm lvii. 2. By John Flavel, Late Preacher of the Gospel. London: Sold by Scatchard & Whitaker, T. Cowthrope, and T. Scollick: and T. Wilson, and R. Spence, in York, 1786.

*Gibbons, Thomas. The Hidden Life of a Christian Exemplified in the Diary, Meditations, and Letters of a Young Minister. Published from Authentic Manuscripts. By Thomas Gibbons. The Second Edition. London: Printed for James Buckland, in Pater-noster-Row; and John Ward, in Cornhill, 1756.

*Gill, John.  "Christ, the Ransom Found."  A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of Mr. John Davenport, Who Departed this Life, October 4th, Aged Forty-eight.  Preached October 13. 1754.  Published at the Request of the Relations.  London: G. Keith and J. Robinson, 1754.

*__________.  The Doctrine of Justification, By the Righteousness of Christ, Stated and Maintained, Being the Substance of several Sermons.  4th ed.  London: G. Keith and J. Robinson, 1756.

*__________.  The Doctrine of Predestination Stated, And set in the Scripture-Light; In Opposition to Mr. Wesley's Predestination calmly Consider'd.  3rd ed.  London: G. Keith, J. Robinson, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Akenhead, and Mr. Taylor, 1752.

*__________.  The Doctrine of the Saints Final Perseverance, Asserted and Vindicated: In Answer to a late Pamphlet, called Serious Thoughts, On that Subject.  3rd ed.  London: G. Keith and J. Robinson, 1754.

*__________.  The Doctrines of God's Everlasting Love to His Elect, And Their Eternal Union with Christ: Together With some other Truths, Stated and Defended.  In a Letter to Dr. Abraham Taylor.  3rd ed.  London: G. Keith and J. Robinson, 1752.

*__________. An Exposition of the Book of Solomon's Song Common Called Canticles. Wherein the Authority of it is Established against Objections both Ancient and Modern; Several Versions Compared with the Original Text; The Different Senses both of the Christian and Jewish Interpreters Considered; and the Whole Opened and Explained in Proper and Useful Observations. By John Gill, D. D. The Fourth Edition, with Many Additions. London: Printed for George Keith in Gracechurch-Street, 1776.

*__________. Sermons on Important Subjects; Preached by the Late Reverend and Learned John Gill, D. D. A New Edition. London: Printed by T. Smith, 29, Winchester Row, for W. Hardcastle, Lamb's Conduit-Street, 1814.

*Goodwin, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D. D. Sometime President of Magdalen College, Oxford. With General Preface by John C. Miller and Memoir by Robert Halley. Nichol's Series of Standard Divines. Puritan Period. 12 vols. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1861.

*Hall, Robert. Help to Zion’s Travellers: Being an Attempt to Remove Various Stumbling blocks Out of the Way, Relating to Doctrinal Experimental, and Practical Religion Bristol: Printed by William Pine. Sold by Buckland and Keith, in London; T. Evans, T. Mills, &c. in Bristol, 1781.

*_________. Help to Zion’s Travellers: Being an Attempt to Remove Various Stumbling blocks Out of the Way Relating to Doctrinal Experimental, and Practical Religion.  First American Edition. Alexandria: John Paradise, 1814.

Hickman, E., ed. The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M. 2 vols. London: William Ball, 1834.

*Howe, John. The Carnality of Religious Contention. In Two Sermons Preach'd at the Merchant's Lecture in Broadstreet. By John Howe, Minister of the Gospel. London: Printed by J. A. for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the Lower End of Cheap-side near Mercer's Chappel [sic], 1693.

*Ivimey, Joseph. The Life of Mr. John Bunyan, Minister of the Gospel at Bedford; In Which is Exemplified the Power of Evangelical Principles. London:Printed by R. Edwards, Crane-Court, Fleet-Street; For Button, and Burditt, Paternoster-Row; Maxwell and Wilson, Skinner-Street; Otridge, and Bagster, Strand; Gardiner, Princes-Street, Cavendish-Street; Taylor, Mile-End; and Miller, Chancery Lane, 1809.

*James, John Angell.  The True Christian, Exemplified in a Series of Addresses from a Pastor to His Own People.  New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1854.

*Jones, William. The Catholic Doctrine of a Trinity Proved by Above an Hundred Short and Clear Arguments, Expressed in Terms of the Holy Scripture, Compared after a Manner Entirely New, and Digested, under the Four Following Titles: 1. The Divinity of Christ. 2. The Divinity of the Holy Ghost. 3. The Plurality of Persons. 4. The Trinity in Unity. with a Few Reflection, Occasionally Interspersed, upon Some of the Arian Writers, Particularly Dr. S. Clarke: To Which is Added, A Letter to the Common People, in Answer to Some Popular Arguments against the Trinity.  By the Late William Jones, M.A. F.R.S. Rector of Paston, in Northamptonshire, and Minister of Nayland, in Suffolk. The Eleventh Edition. London: Printed for C. and J. Rivington.  Booksellers to teh Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall, 1824.

The Center's copy is bound with [Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]. Charges Delivered to Missionaries, of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, at Different Periods, on their Departing for their Several Missions; Together with their Replies to the General Board of the Society. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, Booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; 62, St. Paul's Church-yard and 3, Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall, 1822.

--Myron C. Noonkester

*Keach, Benjamin. Tropologia: A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors, in Four Books.  To Which are Prefixed Arguments to Prove the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures... Together With Types of the Old Testament. London: Printed by J. W. Pasham, Black-Friars: For William Otridge, No. 134, and James Matthews, No. 18, in the Strand, 1779.

*Lamont, William M. Marginal Prynne, 1600-1669. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963.

*Godly Rule: Politics and Religion, 1603-1660. London: Macmillan, 1969.

*______________. Richard Baxter and the Millennium: Protestant Imperialism and the English Revolution. London: Croom Helm, 1979.

*______________. Puritanism and Historical Controversy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.

*Law, William. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A. M. The Eighth Edition. Dublin: Printed for W. and H. Whitestone, No. 29, Capel-Street, 1779.

*Marsden, George M. Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven; Yale University Press, 2003.

Marsden suggests (315) that "exclusivist-conversionist Christianity" and "inclusivist Protestant nationalism" furthered a "revolutionary world missionary movement." Marsden discusses (330ff.) teh relationship between Edwards and Brainerd.  Edwards (389) did not have a high regard for Amerindian languages, which he considered "extermely barbarous and barren."  Marsden's comments (440) on how Edwards treated theological issues concerning "free will" are valuable.

--Myron C. Noonkester

*[Newton, John]. An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of ********. Communicated in a Series of Letters to the Reverend Mr. Haweis, Rector of Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire; And by Him (at the Request of Friends) Now Made Public. The Fourth Edition. London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1775.

*Nuttall, Geoffrey F. Calendar of the Correspondence of Philip Doddridge DD (1702-1751). Historical Manuscripts Commission J[oint] P[ublication] 26. [Northants Record Society Vol. XXIX]. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, [1979]. 

*Orton, Job. Religious Exercises Recommended: Or Discourses on Secret and Family Worship, and the Religious Observation of the Lord's Day. With Two Discourses on teh Heavenly State, Considered under the Idea of a Sabbath. By Job Orton, The Second Edition. Shrewsbury; Printed by J. Eddowes; and Sold by J. BUckland and T. Longman, in Pater-Noster-Row, London, 1772.

Payne, E. A. "Doddridge and the Missionary Enterprise," in G. F. Nuttall, ed., Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751. London: , 1951: 79-101.

*Roxborogh, John.  "The Legacy of Thomas Chalmers." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 23 (October 1999):170-76 [electronic edition].

*Scott, John.  The Life of the Rev. Thomas Scott, D.D., Rector of Aston Sandford, Bucks; Including a Narrative Drawn Up By Himself, and Copious Extracts of His Letters.  Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong and Crocker & Brewster; New York: John P. Haven, 1822.

Sell, Alan P. F.  "Andrew Fuller and the Socinians: Festschrift for D. O. Thomas."  In Testimony and Tradition: Studies in Reformed and Dissenting Thought.  Aldershot, England, and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.  

This article originally appeared in Enlightenment and Dissent XIX (2000).

--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.

*Shipley, Jonathan [Lord Bishop of St. Asaph].  A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish Church of St. Mary-Le-Bow, On Friday, February 19, 1773.  London: T. Harrison and S. Brooke, 1773.

*Sibbes, Richard. The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, D. D. Edited with Memoir by Alexander Balloch Grosart. Nichol's Series of Standard Divines. Puritan Period. Edinburgh: J. Nichol, 1862-1864.

*Spangenberg, August Gottlieb. An Exposition of Christian Doctrine, as Taught in the Protestant Church of the United Brethren, or, Unitas Fratrum. Written in German, by August Gottlieb Spangenberg. With a Preface by Benjamin La Trobe. London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan: And Sold by J. Robson, in Bond-street; T. Cadell, in the Strand; C. Dilly, in the Poultry; J. Stockdale, Piccadilly; and at the Settlements and Chapels of the Congregations of the Brethren, 1784.

*Spinckes, Nathaniel. The Sick Man Visited; and Furnish'd with Instructions, Meditation and Prayers, Suitable to his Condition, for Putting him in Mind of his Change, for Supporting him under His Distemper, and for Preparing him for, and Carrying him Through his Last Conflict with Death. By N. Spinckes, a Presbyter in the Church of England. London: Printed by J. N. for W. Freeman, at the Bible against the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, 1712..

*Stewart, Kenneth J.  "Calvinism and Missions: The Contested Relationship Revisited."  Themelios  34/1 (2009):63-78 [electronic edition].

Stewart correctly contextualizes Carey into the larger eighteenth century missionary movement Stewart identifies as the "Early Protestant Transoceanic Mission."

--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.

*Stoughton, John. Philip Doddridge: His Life and Labours. A Centenary Memorial. Second Edition. London: Jackson and Walford, 1852.

*Stubs, Philip.  "Of Publick Baptism."  A Sermon Preach'd before the Right Honourable The Lord-Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, at Guild-Hall-Chapel, Sunday, Novemb. 20. 1692.  The Fourth Edition; with a Postscript.  London: Printed by H. Hills,  in Black-fryars, 1708.

*[Swartz]. "Biographical Sketch of the Missionaries Swartz and Vanderkemp." Boston Recorder. 3: 37, September 5, 1818.

Taylor, Abraham. The Modern Question Concerning Repentance and Faith, Examined with Candour in Four Dialogues. London: Printed for James Blackstone, 1742.

*The Book of Common Prayer.  Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1771.

*The Whole Works of Flavius Josephus, To Which Is Added, A Continuation of the History of the Jews From the Death of Josephus to the Present Time.  Translated by Ebenezer Thompson, D.D., and Wm. Chass Price, LL.D.  A New Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Greatly Improved.  Embellished with Copper Plates.  London: Printed for the Proprietors, 1795.

*Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, et. al.  The Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English Metre.  Cambridge: Joseph Betham, 1758.

*Tillotson, Dr. John, Late Archbishop of Canterbury.  Sermons on Several Subjects and Occasions.  Volume the Seventh.  London: Printed for R. Ware, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, et al., 1743.

Vickers, John A. Thomas Coke: Apostle of Methodism. London: Epworth Press, 1969.

*Waterland, Daniel. A Critical History of the Athanasian Creed.  Representing the Opinions of Antients and Moderns Concerning It: With an Account of the Mansucripts, Versions, and Comments and Such Other Particulars as are of Moment for the Determining the Age, and Author, and Value of It, and the Time of Its Reception in teh Christian Churches. By Daniel Waterland. D. D. Chancellor of the Church of York, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. Cambridge: Printedat the University Press for Corn. Crownfield, Printer to the University: And are to be Sold by J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, W. and J. Innys Booksellers in London, 1724.

*Whaley, Nathanael. Rector of Broughton in Northamptonshire. Eight Sermons Preached on Several Occasions. London: Printed for John Everingham at the Star in Ludgate-Street, near the West End of St. Pauls' Church-Yard, 1695.

*Wilkins, John. A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer: Shewing What it is, Wherein it Consists, and How Far it is Attainable by Industry. With Divers Useful and Proper Directions to that Purpose, Both in Respect of Matter. Method and Expression. By John Wilkins, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of Chester. Whereunto May be Added, Ecclesiastes: or A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Preaching, By the Same Author. London: Printed for J. Lawrence, at the Angel in the Poultrey; and A. and J. Churchil, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster Row, 1695.

*Wright, Samuel. A Treatise on Being Born Again, Without Which No Man Can Be Saved. By Samuel Wright, D. D. To Which is Added, The Communicant's Spiritual Companion; or, an Evangelical Preparation for the Lord's Supper, etc. etc. etc. By the Rev. Thomas Haweis, Rector of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Peterborough. Philadelphia: Published by George W. Mentz, No. 71, Race-Street, 1812.

Zakai, Avihu.  "Jonathan Edwards and the Language of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning," Journal of Religious History 26, no. 1 (2002), 15-41.

Created:     December 20, 2000              Updated:    January 25, 2012