TO AND FROM

THE REV. PHILIP DODDRIDGE, D.D.

LATE OF NORTHAMPTON:

PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS:

WITH

NOTES EXPLANATORY AND BIOGRAPHICAL:

BY

THOMAS STEDMAN, Μ. Α.

VICAR OF ST. CHAD's, SHREWSBURY.

"His learning, piety, and politeness recommended him to the
esteem and friendship of several of high rank and diftinguished learn-
ing, both among the clergy and laity, with whom he kept up a
correspondence. From them he received very obliging letters, ex-
preffing in strong terms, the regard they had for his works, and the
benefit they had found from them. The esteem of such persons
for one in his station, was an ample testimony to his great merit;
as nothing but his personal qualifications could recommend him to
their notice."

Mr. Orton's Life of Dr. Doddridge.

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ROWLAND WINGFIELD, ESQUIRE,

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THIS VOLUME OF LETTERS

IS INSCRIBED,

AS A SINCERE TESTIMONY

OF GREAT RESPECT AND ESTEEM,

BY HIS MOST OBLIGED,

AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT,

THOMAS STEDMAN.

APRIL 3, 1790.

PREFACE.

THE Letters presented in this volume to the publick, will, the editor of them hopes, be found entertaining, interesting, and useful. Several of their writers rank high in the records of fame; and all of them were the friends of virtue, piety, and moderation...

The taste of the present times appears to relish publications of this kind: and, provided they be undertaken with delicacy and judgment, it may not be amiss to indulge and gratify it. - " That pub"lications like this, (says Mr. Duncombe, " in his preface to the Letters of Arch"bishop Herring) in which nothing is "said that can offend, nothing but what " must please, or inform, and interest the "reader, are allowable and meritorious,