Giver of True Liberty

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Hark! for 'tis God's own Son that calls

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 19 hymnals

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1 Hark! for 'tis God's own Son that calls
To life and liberty;
Transported, fall before his feet,
Who makes the prisoners free.

2 The cruel bonds of sin he breaks,
He sunders Satan's chain:
And, smiling, deals those pardons round
Which free from endless pain.

3 Into the captive heart he pours
His Spirit from on high;
We lose the terrors of the slave,
And "Abba, Father," cry.

4 Shake off your bonds and sing his grace,
The sinner's Friend proclaim,
And call on all around to seek
True freedom by his name.

Source: The Voice of Praise: a collection of hymns for the use of the Methodist Church #455

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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:	Hark! for 'tis God's own Son that calls
Title:	Giver of True Liberty
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain