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Awake. our souls! and bless His name

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 27 hymnals

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1 Awake, our souls, and bless his name,
Whose mercies never fail;
Who opens wide a door of hope
In Achor's gloomy vale.

2 Behold the portal wide display'd,
The building strong and fair;
Within are pastures fresh and green,
And living streams are there.

3 Enter, my soul, with cheerful haste,
For Jesus is the door;
Nor fear the serpent's wily arts,
Nor fear the lion's roar.

4 O may thy grace the nations lead,
And Jews and Gentiles come,
All trav'ling thro' one beauteous gate
To one eternal home.

Source: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: selected and original, designed for the use of the Church Universal in public and private devotion #CCVII

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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:	Awake. our souls! and bless His name
Title:	Door
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Awake, our souls, and bless His name. P. Doddridge. [Christ the Door.] This hymn is not in the “D. MSS." and was first published by J. Orton in his edition of Doddridge's Hymns, &c, 1755, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. It is based on St. John x. 9. It is repeated in later editions of the Hymns , and in J. D. Humphreys's edition of the same, 1839. In Kennedy, 1863, No. 201, it is given as "Awake, my soul, and bless His name."

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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