My God, and is thy table spread
My God, and is thy table spread. Philip Doddridge* (1702-1751).
Published posthumously as no. 171 in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures (1755) under the heading ‘God’s Name profaned, when his Table is treated with Contempt. Malachi i: 12’, and a sub-title ‘Applied to the Lord’s Supper’. It is no. 192 in Scriptural Hymns (1839), edited by John Doddridge Humphreys.
The sub-title reveals a typological interpretation of Scripture that was not uncommon in Doddridge’s day. The hymn, which has been used regularly for Communion services, encouraged better attendance of the Lord’s supper in an age when many believers were frightened by the admonitions against ‘unworthy’ communion...
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