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Campbell on Systematic Theology, Lecture ii. This was Dr. Doddridge’s Plan from the commencement of his studies. Orton’s Life: Chap. i. Bishop Spratt mentions the instance of a Bishop in the troublous times, who was confined nearly twenty years in the Tower, plundered of his library, and applying himself to the exclusive study of the Scriptures as the faithful companion of his solitude and solace of his afflictions. ‘But what was very remarkable (observes the Bishop in giving this history) ‘and for which I am bold to produce him as an instance worthy your imitation—I know he was often heard to profess solemnly, that in all his former studies, and various readings and observations, he had never met with a more useful guide, or a surer interpreter to direct his paths in the dark places of the lively oracles, to give information to his understanding in the obscure passages, or satisfaction to his conscience in the experiential truths of them, than when he was thus driven by necessity to the assiduous contemplaton of the Scripture alone, and to weigh it by itself, as it were, in the balance of the sanctuary.’—Charge to the Diocese of Rochester—Clergyman’s Instructor, pp. 265, 266.