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John Berridge was an Anglican evangelical revivalist and hymnist. J. C. Ryle wrote that as one of "the English evangelists of the eighteenth century" Berridge was "a mighty instrument for good." Wikipedia  

✵ 1716 – 22. January 1793
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John Berridge Quotes

“Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.”

John Berridge

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 480.

Christ

“Make me like a little child,
Simple, teachable, and mild;
Seeing only in Thy light;
Walking only in Thy might!”

John Berridge

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 334.

Light

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