1742 DAVID JENNINGS. Letter to Philip Doddridge Regarding the Nature of the Christian Faith.

What a wonderful Great Awakening period letter! Penned by David Jennings [1691-1762], who was the son of ejected [1662] puritan divine, John Jennings. He was pastor and later tutor at the Fund Academy, Moorfields, where many of the prominent dissenters, both Congregational and Presbyterian, were trained. A testimony to his ongoing godliness is that, along with others like Philip Doddridge, he recognized the Methodist movement, ranging from the Wesleys to Whitefield, as being a genuine experience of God's grace and advocated for the work. Addressed to Philip Doddridge, eminent Great Awakening divine, friend of Whitefield, and one of the leading pastors of the revival. It was his "Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul" which led to the conversion of William Wilberforce. The present letter is in reference to what is Doddridge's work, The Perspicuity and Solidity of those Evidences of Christianity, to which the Generality of its Professors Among Us May Attain, Illustrated and Vindicate