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Rh This was written (1737) to be sung after a sermon on "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."

This is inserted as a Communion Hymn in the "Prayer Book of the Church of England." It was introduced by a University printer about half a century ago. He was a Dissenter, and filled up the blank leaves at the end of the Prayer Book with hymns he thought would be acceptable. The authorities did not interfere, and the hymns thus took their place. In some books there are two hymns by Doddridge, one probably by Wesley, one by Sternhold or J. Mardley, and Bishop Ken's Morning and Evening Hymns, altered and abridged. The other hymn by Doddridge in the Prayer Book is:

It is not in the "New Congregational Hymn Book."

This was composed "at a Meeting of Ministers at Bedworth during their long vacancy, April 10, 1735."

is headed, "On the Opening of a new Meeting-place at Oakham," from Psalm lxxxvii. 4.

This was written when the poet was from home—the name of the place cannot be deciphered—on the occasion of an ordination, October 21, 1736.

This hymn consists of twenty lines, taken from a piece of seventy lines, and entitled, "An Evening Hymn, to be used when composing one's self to sleep."