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{{Short description|Church of England preacher and theologian (1794–1869)}}
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'''Charles Bridges''', [[Master(24 ofMarch Arts1794 (Oxbridge– and2 Dublin)|MA]] (1794 -April 1869)<ref name="apuritansmind.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.apuritansmind.com/BookReviewsbook-reviews/pastoral-book-reviews-the-christian-ministry/BridgesCharlesChristianMinistry.htm |title=Pastoral Book Reviews: The Christian Ministry |work=A Puritan’s Mind |accessdate=1 February 2009}}</ref><ref name="Psalm 119: Product Description">{{cite web |url=http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=8963&event=CF |title=Psalm 119: Product Description |work=Christianbook.com |accessdate=1 February 2009}}</ref>), was aan preacher and theologian in the [[Church of England|Anglican]] preacher and theologian, and a leader of that denomination's Evangelical Party.<ref name="apuritansmind.com" /> As a preacher he was well- regarded by his contemporaries, but is remembered today for his literary contributions.<ref name="A commentary on Ecclesiastes">Bridges, C 1961 [http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/item_detail.php?4513 ''A commentary on Ecclesiastes''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611030934/http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/item_detail.php?4513 |date=11 June 2011 }}, The Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh (from biographical information on rear cover).</ref>
 
== Education and ministry ==
Educated at [[Queens' College, Cambridge|Queens' College]], Cambridge,<ref>{{Vennacad|id=BRGS812C|name=Bridges, Charles}}</ref> he was ordained in 1817 and served from 1823 to 1849 as vicar of [[Old Newton]], Suffolk.<ref name="apuritansmind.com" /><ref name="A commentary on Ecclesiastes" /> [[Thomas Chalmers]] wrote,▼
'{{blockquote|My excellent friend, the Rev. Charles Bridges, of Old Newton, Suffolk, finds, I am sure, most ample occupation among those six hundred people whom he may be said to have domesticated into one parochial family; and, were it not for his still more important services to the Christian church at large, would show, by his incessant labours, how possible it were to make out a most beneficial expenditure of all his strength and all his time amongst them.'<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newble.co.uk/chalmers/extension1.html |title=On the Right Ecclesiastical Economy of a Large Town |work=Thomas Chalmers: Sermons and Writings |accessdate=1 February 2009}}</ref>}}▼
 
In 1849, he became vicar of [[Weymouth, Dorset|Weymouth]], Dorset, later serving as vicar of [[Hinton Martell]], Dorset (c. 1857).<ref name="Psalm 119: Product Description" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gracegems.org/26/BRIDGES.htm |title=Exposition of Psalm 119: Preface |work=Grace Gems |accessdate=1 February 2009}}</ref> Bridges participated (with [[John Charles Ryle|J. C. Ryle]]) in the Clerical Conference at [[Weston-super-Mare]] of 1858, and also participated in the consecration of the [[Samuel Waldegrave|Bishop of Carlisle]] in [[York Minster]] in 1860.<ref name="A commentary on Ecclesiastes" />▼
▲Educated at [[Queens' College, Cambridge|Queens' College]], Cambridge,<ref>{{Venn|id=BRGS812C|name=Bridges, Charles}}</ref> he was ordained in 1817 and served from 1823 to 1849 as vicar of [[Old Newton]], Suffolk.<ref name="apuritansmind.com" /><ref name="A commentary on Ecclesiastes" /> [[Thomas Chalmers]] wrote,
 
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▲'My excellent friend, the Rev. Charles Bridges, of Old Newton, Suffolk, finds, I am sure, most ample occupation among those six hundred people whom he may be said to have domesticated into one parochial family; and, were it not for his still more important services to the Christian church at large, would show, by his incessant labours, how possible it were to make out a most beneficial expenditure of all his strength and all his time amongst them.'<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newble.co.uk/chalmers/extension1.html |title=On the Right Ecclesiastical Economy of a Large Town |work=Thomas Chalmers: Sermons and Writings |accessdate=1 February 2009}}</ref>
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▲In 1849, he became vicar of [[Weymouth, Dorset|Weymouth]], Dorset, later serving as vicar of [[Hinton Martell]], Dorset (c. 1857).<ref name="Psalm 119: Product Description" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gracegems.org/26/BRIDGES.htm |title=Exposition of Psalm 119: Preface |work=Grace Gems |accessdate=1 February 2009}}</ref> Bridges participated (with [[John Charles Ryle|J. C. Ryle]]) in the Clerical Conference at [[Weston-super-Mare]] of 1858, and also participated in the consecration of the [[Samuel Waldegrave|Bishop of Carlisle]] in [[York Minster]] in 1860.<ref name="A commentary on Ecclesiastes" />
 
== Personal life ==▼
 
▲== Personal life ==
Bridges was married to Harriet Torlesse, with whom he had at least two sons, the second of whom was physician John Henry Bridges, [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery|BM]] [[University of Oxford|Oxon]] [[Royal College of Physicians|FRCP]] (1832–1906).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/heritage/munksroll/munk_details.asp?ID=539 |title=Bridges, John Henry |work=Royal College of Physicians |accessdate=1 February 2009}}</ref>
 
==Literary Quotes works==
At least twenty-four editions of Bridges' ''Exposition of Psalm 119'' (1827) were published in his lifetime.<ref name="Psalm 119: Product Description" /> [[Charles Spurgeon|C. H. Spurgeon]] considered the commentary to be '"worth its weight in gold'".<ref name="Psalm 119: Product Description" /> Spurgeon also pronounced Bridges' ''Exposition of Proverbs'' (1840) '"The best work on the Proverbs'".<ref>Bridges, C [http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/item_detail.php?4400 ''Exposition of Proverbs''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611031317/http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/item_detail.php?4400 |date=11 June 2011 }}, The Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh (from biographical information on rear cover).</ref>▼
 
* Daily progress in the heavenly walk is not maintained by yesterday's grace. Humble and dependent prayer must fetch in a fresh supply continually.
** Exposition of Psalm 119, comment on v.10 ▼
 
* Spiritual wisdom is as important for the building up of the Church of God, as was the wisdom imparted to Bezaleel and Aholiab for the raising of the Levitical tabernacle.
** The Christian Ministry, Chapter 6 on The Qualifications of the Christian Ministry
 
* But pride will lift up the head, stiff and unbending: many a stroke does it require to bring it down.
** A Commentary on Proverbs, comment on Proverbs 3:11-12
 
* A neglected Bible is the melancholy proof of a heart "alienated from God".
** A Commentary on Proverbs, comment on Proverbs 4:20-22
 
* The godly union of souls in mutual forebearance with each other's infirmities, and mutual stimulating each other's graces--this surely is a fragment of true happiness that has survived the Fall.
** Charles Bridges, An Exposition of Ecclesiastes, comment on Ecclesiastes 4:7-9.
 
== Literary works ==
 
▲At least twenty-four editions of Bridges' ''Exposition of Psalm 119'' (1827) were published in his lifetime.<ref name="Psalm 119: Product Description" /> [[Charles Spurgeon|C. H. Spurgeon]] considered the commentary to be 'worth its weight in gold'.<ref name="Psalm 119: Product Description" /> Spurgeon also pronounced Bridges' ''Exposition of Proverbs'' (1840) 'The best work on the Proverbs'.<ref>Bridges, C [http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/item_detail.php?4400 ''Exposition of Proverbs''], The Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh (from biographical information on rear cover).</ref>
 
== Bibliography ==▼
 
▲== Bibliography ==
''Exposition of Psalm 119'' (1827)<br />▼
▲** ''Exposition of Psalm 119, comment on v.10'' (1827)
*''The Christian Ministry'' (1829)<br />
*''Memoir of Mary Jane Graham'' (c. 1834)<br />
*''Forty-eight Scriptural Studies'' (1837)<br />
''Exposition of Proverbs'' (1840)<br />▼
▲*''Exposition of Psalm 119Proverbs'' (18271840)<br />
*''A Manual for the Young'' (1849)<br />
''Exposition of Ecclesiastes'' (1860)<br />
▲*''Exposition of ProverbsEcclesiastes'' (18401860)<br />
*''Correspondence'' (posthumous, 1870)
 
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=_2xAAAAAIAAJ Exposition of Psalm 119]
* [httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=D8wQAAAAYAAJ The Christian Ministry]
* [httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=TAcFAAAAYAAJ A Memoir of Miss Mary Jane Graham]
* [httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=VaECAAAAQAAJ Forty-eight Scriptural Studies]
* [httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=dIBJAAAAMAAJ Exposition of Proverbs]
* [httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=e4kOAQAAIAAJ Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes]
 
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