Repairing to Christ, the Fountain of Life

Hail, everlasting Spring

Author: Philip Doddridge
Tune: MILLINGTON (Holyoke)
Published in 26 hymnals

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Hail! everlasting spring,
Celestial fountain, hail!
Thy streams salvation bring,
The waters never fail.
Still they endure,
And still they flow,
For all our woe
And sovreign cure.

Source: Harmonia Americana: containing a concise introduction to the grounds of music; with a variety of airs, suitable fore divine worship and the use of musical societies; consisting of three and four parts #27

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 >

Text Information

First Line: Hail, everlasting Spring
Title: Repairing to Christ, the Fountain of Life
Author: Philip Doddridge
Meter: 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Hail, everlasting Spring. P. Doddridge. The Living Fountain.] This hymn, based on Zech. xiii. 1, is dated in the Doddridge Manuscript " Nov. 7, 1736." It was first published in J. Orton's edition of Doddridge's (posthumous) Hymns, &c, 1755, No. 170, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines, and again in J. p. Humphrey's edition of the same, 1839, No. 191, and in each case without alteration. In Hymns & Songs of Praise, N. Y., 1874, No. 515, it is given unaltered and in full. Elliott, in his Psalms & Hymns, 1835, No. 83, attributes the hymn to "Dodd," and this has been quoted as the author's name. It is simply a contraction of "Doddridge."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Harmonia Americana: containing a concise introduction to the grounds of music; with a variety of airs, suitable fore divine worship and the use of musical societies; consisting of three and four parts #27
  • PDF (PDF)
  • MusicXML (made with MuseScore) (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 26 of 26)

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Additional Hymns, Designed as a Supplement to Dwight's Psalms & Hymns #d68

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Harmonia Americana #27

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Hymns and Songs of Praise for Public and Social Worship #515

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Hymns of the Church Militant #406

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Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, as authorized by the General Convention #372

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Hymns of Worship #376

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Ocean Melodies, and Seamen's Companion #70b

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Select Hymns, The Third Part of Christian Psalmody. 3rd ed. #aa175

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Select Hymns #175

The American Tune Book (Carmina Sacra, enlarged) #d130

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #571

The National Psalmist #d58

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The New Hymn Book, Designed for Universalist Societies #230

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The New Hymn Book, Designed for Universalist Societies #230

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The New York Choralist #169

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The Psalmist #544

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The Psalmist #544

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The Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D. D. #D175

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