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![]() | Salvation doth to God belongAuthor: Philip DoddridgeTune: ATLANTIC Published in 26 hymnals |
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.
Hymnal: according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1871
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 >| First Line: | Salvation doth to God belong |
| Author: | Philip Doddridge |
| Language: | English |
