Philip
Doddridge
Born:
June 26, 1702, London, England.
Died:
October 26, 1751, Lisbon, Portugal.
Doddridge had gone there to recuperate from exhaustion. He died of tuberculosis.
Buried:
English Protestant Cemetery (attached to the British Factory), Lisbon, Portugal.
Youngest of 20 children, Doddridge attended Kingston Grammar School at St.
Albans, and a nonconformist academy in Kibworth, Leicestershire, England. He
went on to become one of the “dissenting” clergy. He was pastor of an
independent congregation and tutor of a seminary for dissenting ministers at
Northampton from 1739 until his death. His works include:
- The Rise and
Progress of Religion in the Soul, 1745
- The Family
Expositor, 1739-56
- Hymns Founded on
Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures. By the Late Reverend Philip Doddridge,
D. D., published posthumously by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton,
1755)
- Scriptural Hymns
by the Rev Philip Doddridge, compiled by his great-grandson John
Doddridge Humphreys, 1839
Hymns
- And Will the Great
Eternal God
- And Will the Judge
Descend?
- Arise, My Tend'rest
Thoughts, Arise
- Awake, My Soul,
Stretch Every Nerve
- Blest Jesus While in
Mortal Flesh
- Do I Not Love Thee,
O My Lord?
- Father of Peace, and
God of Love
- Fountain of Good, to
Own Thy Love
- God of My Life,
Through All My Days
- Grace,
'Tis a Charming Sound
- Great Former of This
Various Frame
- Great God, We Sing
Your Mighty Hand
- Hark, the Glad
Sound!
- How Gentle God's
Commands
- How Rich Thy Bounty,
King of Kings!
- Jesus, I Love Thy
Charming Name
- King of Heav'n His
Table Spreads, The
- Let the High
Heav’ns Your Songs Invite
- Let Zion's Watchmen
All Awake
- Lord of the Sabbath,
Hear Us Pray
- My God, and is Thy
Table Spread
- My Gracious Lord, I
Own Thy Right
- Not Many Years Their
Rounds Shall Roll
- O God of Bethel, by
Whose Hand
- O Happy Day, That
Fixed My Choice
- O Lord! And Is Thy
Table Spread?
- O Ye Immortal Throng
- See Israel's Gentle
Shepherd Stand
- Shine on Our Souls,
Eternal God
- Sing, Oh Ye Ransomed
of the Lord
- Tomorrow, Lord, is
Thine
- Triumphant Zion,
Lift Thy Head
- While on the Verge
of Life I Stand
- Ye Golden Lamps of
Heav’n Farewell
- Ye Humble Souls that
Seek the Lord
- Ye Servants of the
Lord
- Ye Sons of Men, with
Joy Record
- Yes, the Redeemer
Rose