Come, our indulgent Savior, come

Come, our indulgent Savior, come

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: Philip Doddridge

Doddridge, Philip, D.D., was born in London, June 26, 1702. His grandfather was one of the ministers under the Commonwealth, who were ejected in 1662. His father was a London oilman. He was offered by the Duchess of Bedford an University training for ordination in the Church of England, but declined it. He entered Mr. Jennings's non-conformist seminary at Kibworth instead; preached his first sermon at Hinckley, to which Mr. Jennings had removed his academy. In 1723 he was chosen pastor at Kibworth. In 1725 he changed his residence to Market Harborough, still ministering at Kibworth. The settled work of his life as a preceptor and divine began in 1729, with his appointment to the Castle Hill Meeting at Northampton, and continued till in the… Go to person page >

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First Line: Come, our indulgent Savior, come
Author: Philip Doddridge
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Come, our indulgent Saviour, come. P. Doddridge. [Easter.] First published in J. Orton's ed. of Doddridge's Hymns, &c, 1755, No. 245, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled “The Disciples' Joy at Christ's appearance to them after the Resurrection." It was also given in J. D. Humphreys's edition of the same, 1839. The form in which it is usually known is, "Come, condescending Saviour, come." This was given in the Bristol Collection of Ash & Evans, 1769, No. 211. It was repeated in Bickersteth's Christian Psalmody, 1833, and other collections, and was thus handed down to the modern hymnals. In Dr. Alexander's Augustine Hymn Book, 1849-65, stanzas i., ii., and iv. are given as, "Come, great and gracious Saviour, come"; and in the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, stanzas iv. and v. as, "Enter our hearts, Redeemer blest."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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