A Pastor's Selection of Hymns and Tunes #4
Display Title: O Sun of Righteousness divine First Line: O Sun of Righteousness divine Date: 1859
A Pastor's Selection of Hymns and Tunes #4
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 >| First Line: | O Sun of righteousness divine |
| Title: | Prayer for Quickening Grace |
| Author: | Philip Doddridge |
| Meter: | 8.8.8.8 |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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