All glorious God, what hymns of praise

All glorious God, what hymns of praise

Author: Philip Doddridge (1755)
Published in 49 hymnals

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1 All glorious God, what hymns of praise
Shall our transported voices raise!
What ardent love and zeal are due,
While heaven stands open to our view!

2 Once we were fallen, and O how low!
Just on the brink of endless woe:
When Jesus, from the realms above,
Borne on the wings of boundless love,

3 Scattered the shades of death and night,
And spread around His heavenly light:
By Him what wondrous grace is shown
To souls impoverish'd and undone!

4 He shows, beyond these mortal shores,
A bright inheritance as ours;
Where saints in light our coming wait
To share their holy, happy state.


Source: Hymnal: according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America #371

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: All glorious God, what hymns of praise
Author: Philip Doddridge (1755)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

All glorious God, what hymns of praise. P. Doddridge. [Praise!] In the "D. MSS." this hymn is headed, "Of being prepared for the inheritance of the Saints in light. A song of praise for Col. i. 12," and is dated "Dec. 13, 1736," No. xxix. The same text was given in J. Orton's ed. of Doddridge's (posthumous) Hymns, &c, 1755, No. 298, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, and, with slight changes, in J. D. Humphreys's edition of the same, 1839, No. 324. Although a hymn of praise of more than usual merit in many ways, it is rarely given in the English collections, and found in but a few of the American hymnals.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Harmonia Americana: containing a concise introduction to the grounds of music; with a variety of airs, suitable fore divine worship and the use of musical societies; consisting of three and four parts #53
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A Collection of Hymns and a Liturgy #118

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A Collection of Hymns and A Liturgy #118

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A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #499

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A Collection of Sacred Song #49(H15)

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A Collection of Sacred Song #49(H15)

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A Selection of Psalms with occasional hymns (Charleston hymnal) #H.XXXIII

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Christian Hymns #182

Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #d13

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Church Psalmody #H57

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Church Psalmody #57

Compilation of Hymns for the Use of the Churches of the Christian Union #d11

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Harmonia Americana #53

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church #494

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church. (11th ed.) #494

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Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church with Music (Gilbert & Goodrich) #371

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Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book #334a

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Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book #334b

Hymnal of the Reformed Episcopal Church #d4

Hymnal of the Reformed Episcopal Church, adopted in General Council, Chicago, May 1879 #d7

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Hymnal #371

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Hymnal #371

Hymns for the Use of the New Jerusalem Church #d6

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Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, as authorized by the General Convention #15

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Manual of Christian Psalmody #57

Melodies of the Church #d13

Old School Sonnets, or a Selection of Choice Hymns #d16

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Psalms and Hymns #64

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #182

Seamen's Devotional Assistant and Mariners' Hymns (American Seamen's Friend Society) #d10

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Selections from the Psalms of David in Metre #H15

Templi Carmina #d4

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The Baptist Praise Book #437

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The Book of Worship #101

The Christian Harmony #d7

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The Church Hymnal with Canticles #371

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The Church Hymnal #172

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The Hymnal #371

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The Lecture-Room Hymn-Book #H15

The Missionary Tune Book #d3

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The Whole Book of Psalms #H.XVII

Union Prayer Meeting Hymns #d6

Union Prayer Meeting Hymns #d7

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #CCLX

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