Great Lord of all angels, we adore

Great Lord of all angels, we adore

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 31 hymnals

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1 Great Lord of Angels! we adore
The grace that builds thy courts below;
And, 'midst ten thousand sons of light
Stoops to regard what mortals do!

2 Amidst the wastes of time and death,
Successive pastors thou dost raise,
Thy kingdom and thy truth to spread,
And form a people for thy praise.

3 At length, dismiss'd from feeble clay,
Thy servants join th'angelic band,
With them through distant worlds they fly,
With them before thy presence stand.

4 O blest employment! glorious hope!
Sweet lenitive of grief and care!
hen shall we reach those radiant courts,
And all their joys and honours share?

5 Yet while these labours we pursue,
Tho' distant from thy heav'nly throne,
Give us a zeal and love like theirs,
And half their heav'n shall here be known.

Source: Hymns, Selected and Original: for public and private worship (1st ed.) #568

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: Great Lord of all angels, we adore
Author: Philip Doddridge
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of Hymns and a Liturgy for the Use of Evangelical Lutheran Churches #431

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A Collection of Hymns and a Liturgy #431

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A Collection of Hymns and A Liturgy #431

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship #436

A Selection of Hymns #d94

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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship (2nd ed. Enl. and Imp.) #345

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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship (6th ed.) #358

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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms, for Social and Private Worship. (11th ed.) #358

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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms #345

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Baptist Hymn Book #a576

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Church Pastorals, hymns and tunes for public and social worship #732

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church. (2nd ed.) #274

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Hymn book of the Methodist Protestant Church. (4th ed.) #274

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Hymns for Christian Melody #640

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Hymns, Selected and Original, for Public and Private Worship #568

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Hymns, Selected and Original #568

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Hymns #568

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Select Hymns, The Third Part of Christian Psalmody. 3rd ed. #aa143

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Select Hymns #143

Supplement to Watts #d158

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The Baptist Hymn Book #576

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The Congregational Hymn Book #734

The Halifax Selection of Hymns #d161

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The New Hymn Book, Designed for Universalist Societies #485

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The New Hymn Book, Designed for Universalist Societies #485

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The Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D. D. #D143

The Service of Song for Baptist Churches #d279

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