And Enoch Walked With God

Cheered with thy converse, Lord, I trace

Author: Philip Doddridge
Tune: PETERBOROUGH (Harrison)
Published in 8 hymnals

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: Cheered with thy converse, Lord, I trace
Title: And Enoch Walked With God
Author: Philip Doddridge
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d111

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d111

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #d111

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #565

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #467

Hymn Book of the Colored M.E. Church in America #d74

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South #467

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #653

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