Jehovah 'tis a glorious name

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 >

Jehovah! 'tis a glorious Name. P. Doddridge. [Trust in Jehovah.] In the D. MSS. this hymn is headed, "The Saint encouraging himself in the Lord his God," and is dated "Oct. 9, 1737.” It was included in J. Orton's edition of Doddridge's (posthumous) Hymns, &c, 1755, No. 20, in 3 stanzas of 4 lines, and again in J. D. Humphreys's edition of the same, 1839, No. 24, In the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, it is slightly altered.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)