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The Wisdom of Redeeming Time

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God of eternity, from thee

Author: Philip Doddridge
Tune: WELLS (Holdroyd)
Published in 121 hymnals

Representative Text

1 God of eternity! from thee
Did infant time its being draw;
Moments and days, and months and years,
Revolve by thine unvaried law.

2 Silent and swift they glide away;
Steady and strong the current flows,
Lost in eternity's wide sea,
The boundless gulf from whence it rose.

3 With it the thoughtless sons of men
Before the rapid stream are borne
On to their everlasting home,
Whence not one soul can e'er return.

4 Great Source of wisdom! teach our hearts
To know the price of every hour,
That time may bear us on to joys
Beyond its measure and its power.

Source: The Voice of Praise: a collection of hymns for the use of the Methodist Church #912

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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 >

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First Line:	God of eternity, from thee
Title:	The Wisdom of Redeeming Time
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Ephesians 5:15-16
(hymns)

Tune

WELLS (Holdroyd)

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Timeline

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The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book: adapted to the doctrines and usages of the church (6th ed.) (1902), p.360

Instances

Instances (101 - 121 of 121)

The Halifax Selection of Hymns #d145

The Harp #949

The Harp. 2nd ed. #a949

The Lord's Songs #CLVIII

The New Hymn Book, Designed for Universalist Societies #398

The New Hymn Book, Designed for Universalist Societies #398

The Philadelphia Hymn Book; or, a selection of sacred poetry, consisting of psalms and hymns from Watts...and others, adapted to public and private devotion #453

The Pocket Selection of Hymns for the Use of Evangelical Churches and Religious Assemblies in the U. S. lst ed. #d79

The Providence Selection of Hymns, Supplementary to Dr. Watts. #d90

The Psalmist #1044

The Psalmist #1044

The Psalmody #1049

The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts #1262

The School Hymn-Book #252

The Service of Song for Baptist Churches #d258

The Social Psalmist #302

The South Western Psalmist #d111

The Southern Psalmist #d241

The Southern Psalmist. New ed. #d250

The Springfield Collection of Hymns for Sacred Worship #182

The Voice of Praise #912

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