Salvation doth to God belong

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Salvation doth to God belong

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 28 hymnals

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1 Salvation doth to God belong,
His power and grace shall be our song;
From Him alone all mercies flow,
His arm alone subdues the foe.

2 Then praise this God, who bows His ear
Propitious to His people's prayer;
And though deliverance He may stay,
Yet answers still in His own day.

3 O may this goodness lead our land,
Still saved by thine Almighty hand,
The tribute of its love to bring
To Thee, our Saviour and our King.

Source: Hymnal: according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America #304

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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:	Salvation doth to God belong
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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FEDERAL STREET

Henry Kemble Oliver (b. Beverly, MA, 1800; d. Salem, MA, 1885) composed FEDERAL STREET in 1832, possibly as an imitation of earlier psalm tunes in long meter. He took it to a music class taught by Lowell Mason (who may have contributed to the harmony); Mason (PHH 96) published it in his Boston Acade…

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ATLANTIC (Oates)

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