Despierta, hermoano, sin demorar

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Despierta, hermano, sin demorar

Author: Philip Doddridge; Translator: Martha B. Claverie
Tune: RICHMOND (Haweis)
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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 >

Translator: Martha B. Claverie

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First Line:	Despierta, hermano, sin demorar
Title:	Despierta, hermoano, sin demorar
English Title:	Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Translator:	Martha B. Claverie
Language:	Spanish
Copyright:	Translation property of Martha B. Claverie

Hebrews 12:1-2
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Tune

RICHMOND (Haweis)

RICHMOND (also known as CHESTERFIELD) is a florid tune originally written by Thomas Haweis (PHH 270) and published in his collection Carmina Christo (1792). Samuel Webbe, Jr., adapted and shortened the tune and published it in his Collection of Psalm Tunes (1808). It was reprinted in 1853 in Webbe's…

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