Lord, we adore thy wondrous name

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Lord, we adore thy wondrous name

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 29 hymnals

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1 Lord! we adore thy wondrous name;
And make that name our trust,
Which rais'd at first this curious frame
From mean and lifeless dust.

2 Awhile these frail machines endure,
The fabric of a day;
Then, know their vital pow'rs no more,
But moulder back to clay.

3 Yet, Lord! whate'er is felt or fear'd,
This thought is our repose,
That he, by whom our frame was rear'd,
Its various frailties knows.

4 Thou view'st us with a pitying eye,
While struggling with our load;
In pains and dangers thou art nigh,
Our Father, and our God.

5 Gently supported by thy love,
We tend to realms of peace;
Where ev'ry pain shall far remove,
And ev'ry weakness cease.

Source: A Collection of Hymns and A Liturgy: for the use of Evangelical Lutheran Churches; to which are added prayers for families and individuals #483

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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:	Lord, we adore thy wondrous name
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 103
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Lord, we adore Thy wondrous Name. P. Doddridge. Divine Compassion.] Written Oct. 29,1735 (D. MSS. No. v.), and published in Job Orton's edition of Doddridge's (posthumous) Hymns, &c, 1755, No. 55, iu 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and again in J. D. Humphreys's edition of the same, 1839, No. 68. The original heading is "The frailties of human nature, and God's gracious regard to it. Psalms ciii. 14." In modern hymn-books it is usually abbreviated.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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