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Zion's Watchmen

Let Zion's watchmen all awake

Author: Philip Doddridge (1736)
Published in 271 hymnals

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1 Let Zion's watchmen all awake,
And heed the call they give;
Now let them from the mouth of God
Their solemn charge receive.

2 They watch for souls for which the Lord
Did heavenly bliss forgo;
For souls, which must forever live
In raptures or in woe.

3 May they in Jesus, whom they preach,
Their own Redeemer see;
And watch Thou daily o'er their souls,
That they may watch for Thee.

Amen.

Source: The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church #322

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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Church Hymnal, Mennonite #350

The Baptist Hymnal #556

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