"All hail, mysterious King" is an eighteenth-century hymn written by English Nonconformist minister Philip Doddridge, based on Revelation 22:16. Composed in four four-line stanzas, the text does not appear in Doddridge's surviving manuscript collection.
The hymn was first published posthumously in Job Orton's 1755 edition of Doddridge's Hymns and Spiritual Songs (No. 359), under the title "Christ the Root and Offspring of David, and the Morning Star." It was retained in subsequent editions of the work, including John Doddridge Humphreys's revised and enlarged edition of 1839. While its adoption in British collections remained limited and largely confined to older hymnals, it gained wider acceptance in nineteenth-century American worship books.
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