ENCYCLOPAEDIA LONDINENSIS; 
■ . OR, AN 
UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY 
OF 
ARTS, SCIENCES, and LITERATURE. 
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OD'DER, f. in botany. See Cuscuta. 
DOD'DBRED, adj. Overgrown with dodder; 
covered with fupercrefcent plants : 
The peafants were enjoin’d 
Sere-wood, and firs, and dodder'd oaks, to find. Dryden. 
DOD'DRIDGE (Philip), an eminent Englifh noncon- 
formift divine and tutor, fon of a refpedtable tradefman 
in London, where he was born, in 1702. It was Mr. 
Doddridge’s misfortune to be left an orphan when lie 
was only thirteen years of age, and foon afterwards to 
lofe the whoie of the property that was left him, by the 
mifmanagement of the perfon to whom the care of it was 
entrufted. In thefe circumftances, Dr. Samuel Clark li¬ 
berally furnifhed hint with the means of continuing his 
claflical ftudies; and, finding him ftrongly inclined to 
the work of the Chriftian miniflry, took him into his own 
houfe, under his perfonal inftrudtion, where he was fup- 
plied witli the moft proper books for improvement, and 
had the fentiments of virtue and piety, in which he was 
early initiated, confirmed and ftrengthened in his mind. 
In 1725, he firft fixed his refidencg at Market-Harborough, 
for the fake of enjoying the inftruftive converfation and 
advice of the learned pafior of a diffenting congregation 
in that town, to whom lie was chofen affiftant; and with 
whom he continued until he opened his academy at Har- 
borougli, in the year 1729. He had not entered upon the 
office of a tutor many months, when a vacancy took place 
in a confiderable congregation at Northampton, who had 
long admired him as a preacher, and who were now ur¬ 
gent with him to accept of the paftoral charge of their 
iociety. He therefore removed with his academy to 
Northampton, towards the clofe of the year laft men¬ 
tioned. During the twenty-two years in which he fuf- 
tained the office of a-tutor, he had about 200 young men 
under his care, of whom 120 entered upon the work of 
the miniflry. His coridudt in that character cannot be 
too highly commended for diligence, prudence, and con¬ 
ciliating manners ; and of the excellent effe&s of the fy.f- 
tem which he purfued, the many learned and refpectable 
men who proCeeded.from his fe min ary, and who honour¬ 
ably diftinguiflied themfelves as miniflers, or in the de¬ 
partments of civil life, bear ample teftimony. During 
the Courfe of his active life he publifhed, and prepared 
for the prefs, a variety of works which entitle him to no 
fmall reputation as an author. In 1730, Mr. Doddridge 
publifhed, Free Thoughts on the moft probable Means 
of reviving the diffenting Intereft, in which his politenefs 
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and candour as a difputant are pleafingly exhibited. In 
1732 he publifhed a volume of Sermons on the Educa¬ 
tion of Children; and in 1735, a volume of Sermons to 
young Men ; both of which were favourably received by 
the world, and have gone through many editions. In 
1736, he publifhed Ten Sermons on the Power and Grace 
of Chrift; and The Evidences of his glorious Gofpel. 
During the fame year the univerTify of Aberdeen con¬ 
ferred upon him the degree of doctor in divinity. In 
1739, Dr. Doddridge gave to the public the firft volume 
of his valuable work, The Family Expofitor; or, a Pu- 
raphrafe and Verfion of the New Teftament, with critical 
Notes, and a practical Improvement of each_Se£fion. 
The merits of this w'ork are fo generally known and ac¬ 
knowledged, that any farther notice of its character is 
entirely unneceffary. The fecond volume made its ap¬ 
pearance in 1740. In the following year Dr. Doddridge 
publifhed a volume, of Practical Difcourfes upon Rege¬ 
neration; and, in 1742 and 1743, Three Letters to tire 
Author of a Treatife, intitled, Chriftianity not founded 
on Argument. In 1743, he publifhed, The Principles of 
the Chriftian Religion, in eafy Verfe, for the Ufe of 
Children and Youth; alfo, The Rife and Progrefs of 
Religion in the Soul ; fince tranflated into the Dutch, 
German, Danifii, and French, languages. In 1747, Dr. 
Doddridge publifhed. Some remarkable Paflages in the 
Life of the Hon. Colonel James Gardiner ; and in 1748 
appeared the third volume of The Family Expofitor, and 
alfo the Expolitory Works., and other remains, of arch- 
bifhop Leighton, which were reviled by Dr. Doddridge ; 
and, together with his tranflation of the archbifhop’s 
Latin Prelections, publifhed at Edinburgh, in two vols. 
The laft of Dr. Doddridge’s.works, publifhed during his 
life-time, was intitled, A plain and ferious Addrefs to 
the Mafter of a Family, on the important Subjefl of Fa¬ 
mily Religion. Of his grand work, The Family Expo¬ 
fitor, three.volumes were left unpublifhed at the time of 
his death. He had, however, finifhed the copy of the 
whole; fo that in 1754 the fourth volume was publifhed 
by Mr. Orton, and the fifth and fixth in the year 1756. 
In 1735, Mr. Orton likewife publifhed a collection of 
Dr. Doddridge’s Hymns, founded on various Texts in 
the Holy Scriptures. The laft work of Dr. Doddridge 
which was given to the public, was his Courfe or Lec¬ 
tures on the principal Subj.eCts of Pneuma.tology, Ethics, 
and Divinity ; witli References to the moft confiderable 
Authors on each Subject. It appeared in 1763, in one 
volume quarto, under the care of .the reverend Samuel 
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