Davies, Samuel, an eminent Presbyterian divine,
was born near Summit Ridge, Newcastle,
Del., November 3, 1723. He was licensed
in 1745 and ordained to the ministry
in 1747, and labored for several years
as a missionary and evangelist in the State
of Virginia. He succeeded Jonathan Edwards
as President of Princeton College in
1759, but died February 4, 1761, in his
thirty-seventh year. His published sermons
show him to have been a man of
great intellectual vigor, piety, and usefulness.
They have been frequently reprinted.
In Dr. Thomas Gibson's Hymns Adapted to
Divine Worship (London, 1769) there are
sixteen hymns by Mr. Davies, one of which
is the following:
| Lord, I am thine, entirely thine |
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