O God of heaven and earth, arise

O God of heaven and earth, arise

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 9 hymnals

Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

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First Line: O God of heaven and earth, arise
Author: Philip Doddridge
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book #241

Book of Common Praise #d387

Spirit of Song #d76

The Book of Common Praise #d401

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The Liturgy and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum #853

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Offices of Worship and Hymns #301

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Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book with Accompanying Tunes (Second Edition) #294

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Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book #294

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