9076 | The Cyber Hymnal#9077 | 9078 |
Text: | Sovereign Of Heaven, Thine Empire Spreads |
Author: | Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 |
Tune: | ALIDA |
Composer: | D. B. Thompson |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Sov’reign of Heaven, Thine empire spreads,
O’er all the worlds on high:
And at Thy frowns th’infernal powers
In wild confusion fly.
2 Like lightning from his glittering throne
The great arch-traitor fell,
Driv’n with enormous ruin down
To infamy and hell.
3 Permitted now to range at large,
And traverse earth and air,
O’er captive human souls he reigns,
And boasts his kingdom there.
4 Yet thence Thy grace can drive him out,
With one almighty word;
O send Thy potent scepter forth,
And reign victorious, Lord.
5 Let wretched prisoners be released,
The smiling light to view;
Nor let the vanquished foe return
Their bondage to renew.
6 May grace complete that wondrous work,
Which Thine own power begun;
And fill, from Satan’s gloomy realms,
The kingdom of Thy son.
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First Line: | Sov’reign of Heaven, Thine empire spreads |
Title: | Sovereign Of Heaven, Thine Empire Spreads |
Author: | Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 |
Meter: | CMD |
Language: | English |
Source: | Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scripture. By the Late Reverend Philip Doddridge, D. D., by Job Orton (J. Eddowes & J. Cotton: 1755) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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Name: | ALIDA |
Composer: | D. B. Thompson (1889) |
Meter: | CMD |
Key: | C Major |
Source: | Joyful Wing by John R. Sweney and William J. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: John J. Hood, 1889) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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