Samuel Phillips
Samuel Phillips [1]
a Congregational minister, was born February 17, 1690 (O.S.), at Salem, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard College in 1708, and was ordained, October 17, 1711, pastor of the South Parish, Andover, where he remained until his death, June 5, 1771. Samuel 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 became 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 sentiments 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 Curwen (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 (1729): — The History of the Savior (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 be hadfor Asking (1750): — A Sermon on the Sinner's Refusal to Come to Christ (1753): — A Sermon on the Necessity 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 Dialogue (1763); and several occasional sermons. See Sprague, Annals, 1:273.
