Since thou, the everlasting God

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Since thou, the everlasting God

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 Since Thou, the everlasting God,
Our Father art become;
Jesus, our Guardian and our Friend,
And heaven, our final home:

2 We welcome all Thy sov'reign will,
For all that will is love;
And when we know not what Thou dost,
We wait the light above.

3 Thy gracious love, in all our need,
Shall heavenly light impart,
And be our theme of endless praise
When all things else depart.

Source: A Few Hymns and Some Spiritual Songs. Selected 1856, for the Little Flock. Revised, 1881 #338

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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:	Since thou, the everlasting God
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Source:	From "My God, the covenant of thy love"
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain