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8vo), written in answer to John Knox's work, The First Blast of the Trumpet, etc. See Wood, A then. Oxon. ; Dodd, Ch. Hist. vol. iii ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Auth.s. v.
Phillips, Richard, an English Wesleyan preach- er, was born in 1777. In early life he was brought to Christ through Methodist influence, and, feeling called of God to the work of the ministry, entered the itinerant ranks in 1804, and continued in the active labors of the ministry until 1844, when debility constrained him to accept an assistant, and to preach only occasionally. '"Blessed with a good understanding and a retentive memory, patient and prudent, enjoying the life of God in his soul, and warmly attached to the doctrines and discipline of Methodism, he preached those doctrines and administered that discipline to the profit of the Wesleyan body." See Wesleyan Magazine, 1840, p. 916.
Phillips, Samuel (1), a Congregational minister, was born Feb. 17, 1690 (6. S.), at Salem, Mass. He graduated at Harvard College in 1708, and was ordained, Oct. 17, 1711, pastor of the South Parish, Andover, where he remained until his death, June 5, 1771. Sam- uel Phillips was a devoted orthodox preacher, and not only refused to be affected by the heretical tendencies of his times, but combated all Arian influences, and be- came a most decided opponent of the Unitarians. "As a preacher, he was highly respectable, was zealous, and endeavored not only to indoctrinate his people in senti- ments which he deemed correct and important, but to lead them to the practice of all Christian duties." He published, Elegy upon the Death of Nicholas Noyes and George Curiven (1718) : — A Word in Season, or Duty of a People to take the Oath of Allegiance to a Glorious God (1727):— Advice to a Child (17 '29) -.—The History of the Saviour (1738): — The Orthodox Christian, or a Child well Instructed (1738) : — A Minister's A ddress to his People, (1739) : — A Sermon on Living Water to he had for Asking (1750) : — A Sermon on the Si?mer's Re- fusal to Come to Christ (1753) : — A Sermon on the Ne- cessity of God's Drawing in Order to Men's Coming unto Christ (1753): — Seasonable. Advice to a Neighbor, in a Dialogue (1761) : — Address to Young People, in a Dia- logue (1763); and several occasional sermons. See Sprague, Annals, i, 273.
Phillips, Samuel (2), LL.D., an American philan- thropist, noted for his service to the state, deserves a place here for the interest which he took in educational mat- ters. He was born at Andover m 1751, and graduated at Harvard College in 1771. He was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775, and of the House of Repre- sentatives till the year 1780, when he assisted in framing the constitution of Massachusetts. On its adoption he was elected a member of the Senate, and was its presi- dent from 1785 to 1802. Being appointed justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Essex in 1781, he held his office till 1797, when his declining health induced his resignation. He was commissioner of the state in Scharp's insurrection, and in 1801 was chosen lieuten- ant-governor. He died Feb. 10, 1802. Although so greatly honored with public eminence, he remained a faithful son of the Church of Christ, and was not only regular in his own observances, but ministered fre- quently to those unable to go to church. He appeared to be continually governed by love to the Supreme Being, and by the desire of imitating his benevolence and doing good. Phillips's deep views of evangelical doctrine and duty, of human depravity and mediatorial mercy, formed his heart to humility, condescension, and kindness, and led him continually to depend on the grace of God through the atonement of his Son. He was one of the projectors of the academy at Andover, and was much concerned in establishing that, as well as the academy at Exeter, which were founded by his father and uncle. To these institutions he was a dis- tinguished benefactor. He was also a founder of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston. At
his death he left to the town of Andover $5000, the in- come to be applied to the cause of education. After his death his widow, Phoebe Phillips, and his son, John Phil- lips, of Andover, evinced the same attachment to the in- terests of learning and religion, by uniting with Samuel Abbot, and three others of a most liberal and benevolent spirit, in founding the theological seminary at Andover, which was opened in September, 1808. See Allen. Diet. of Amer. Biog. s. v. ; Brown, Eel. Cyclop, s. v. ; Drake, Diet, of A iiier. Biog. s. v.
Phillips, Thomas, an English Roman Catholic priest, was born in Buckinghamshire in 1708. He re- ceived his education at St. Omer's College, and became a most zealous worker in the Church. He obtained a prebend in the collegiate church of Tongres, and resided for many years in the family of the earl of Shrews- bury. Towards the end of his life he retired to the English college at Liege, where he died in 1774. He pub- lished. The Study of Sacred Literature fully Stated and < 'onsidt n ,1 1 1 .mid. 1756, 8vo ; 2d ed. 1758 ; 3d ed. 1765) :— Philemon (1761, 8vo). This autobiographical pamphlet was privately printed, and suppressed: — The Bistort/ of the Life of Reginald Pole (Oxford, 1764-1767, 2 pts. in 1 vol.4to; Lond.l767,2vols. 8vo). This work elicited six answers, by Richard Lillard,T.liidley,T.NeVe, E.. Stone, B. Pye, and J. Jones (see Chalmers, Biog. Diet, xxvi, 460-461), and Phillips responded in an appendix to the Life (1767. 4to) ; see also end of his 3d ed. of Study of Sacred Literature : — Reasons for the Repeal of the Law against the Papists: — Translation in Metre of the Hymn Lauda Sion Salvatorem: — Censura Commentarioiiim Cornelii a Lapide, in Latin, on a single sheet. He also addressed some poetry to his sister Elizabeth, abbess of the Benedictine nuns at Ghent. See Cole's MS. . I tfa it. in the British Museum; European Magazine, for Sep- tember, 1796; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Auth. s. v.