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Round the Lord in glory seated
Author: Richard Mant, 1776-1848 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 198 hymnals Topics: God: His Being, Word and Works God the Father Almighty: The Divine Perfections Used With Tune: DEERHURST
Round the Lord in glory seated
All creatures of our God and King
Author: William H. Draper, 1855-1933 Meter: 8.8.4.4.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 265 hymnals Topics: God: His Being, Word and Works God the Father Almighty: The Divine Perfections Used With Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN Text Sources: St. Francis of Assisi's 'Canticle of the Sun' 1225 (based on)
All creatures of our God and King
O worship the King
Author: Robert Grant, 1785-1839; William Kethe, de. 1594 Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 1,142 hymnals Topics: God: His Being, Word and Works God the Father Almighty: The Divine Perfections First Line: O worship the King, all glorious above Used With Tune: HANOVER
O worship the King
THE OLD HUNDREDTH
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,892 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Louis Bourgeois Topics: God Divine Perfections of Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11765 12333 32143 Used With Text: All people that on earth do dwell
THE OLD HUNDREDTH
LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Meter: 8.8.4.4.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 482 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. Vaughan Williams, 1872 - 1958 Topics: God: His Being, Word and Works God the Father Almighty: The Divine Perfections Tune Sources: Melody from Church Song 1623 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 11231 34511 23134 Used With Text: All creatures of our God and King
LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Hope encouraged by a view of the divine perfections
Hymnal: The Hartford Selection of Hymns from the Most Approved Authors #CXXXII (1799) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Hope From the divine perfections; Hope From the divine perfections First Line: Why sinks my weak desponding mind? Lyrics: 1 Why sinks my weak desponding mind?
Why heaves my heart the anxious sigh?
Can sov'reign goodness be unkind?
Am I not safe when God is nigh?
2 He holds all nature in his hand:
That gracious hand on which I live,
Does life, and time, and death command,
And has immortal joys to give.
3 'Tis he supports this fainting frame,
On him alone my hopes recline;
the wond'rous glories of his name,
How side they spread, how bright they shine1
4 Infinite wisdom! boundless pow'r!
Unchanging faithfulness and love!
Here let me trust, while I adore,
And from my refuge ne'er remove.
5 My God, if thou art mine indeed,
Then I have all my heart can crave;
A present help in times of need,
Still kind to hear and strong to save.
6 Forgive my doubts, o gracious Lord,
And ease the sorrows of my breast;
Speak to my heart the healing word,
That thou art mine--and I am blest.
Scripture: 1 Samuel 30:6 Languages: English
Hope encouraged by a view of the divine perfections
Hope encouraged by a view of the divine perfections
Hymnal: The Hartford Selection of Hymns #CXXXII (1802) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Hope From the divine perfections; Hope From the divine perfections First Line: Why sinks my weak desponding mind? Lyrics: 1 Why sinks my weak desponding mind?
Why heaves my heart the anxious sigh?
Can sov'reign goodness be unkind?
Am I not safe when God is nigh?
2 He holds all nature in his hand:
That gracious hand on which I live,
Does life, and time, and death command,
And has immortal joys to give.
3 'Tis he supports this fainting frame,
On him alone my hopes recline;
the wond'rous glories of his name,
How side they spread, how bright they shine1
4 Infinite wisdom! boundless pow'r!
Unchanging faithfulness and love!
Here let me trust, while I adore,
And from my refuge ne'er remove.
5 My God, if thou art mine indeed,
Then I have all my heart can crave;
A present help in times of need,
Still kind to hear and strong to save.
6 Forgive my doubts, o gracious Lord,
And ease the sorrows of my breast;
Speak to my heart the healing word,
That thou art mine--and I am blest.
Scripture: 1 Samuel 30:6 Languages: English
Hope encouraged by a view of the divine perfections
Mercy and Truth met together; or, the Harmony of the divine Perfections
Author: Dr. S. Stennett Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns #XXI (1792) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Harmony of the divine perfections First Line: When first the God of boundless grace Lyrics: 1 When first the God of boundless grace
Disclos'd his kind design,
To rescue our apostate race
From misery, shame and sin;
2 Quick, through the realms of light and bliss,
The joyful tidings ran,
Each heart exulted at the news,
That God would dwell with man.
3 Yet 'midst their joys they paus'd a while,
And ask'd with strange surprise,
"But how can injur'd justice smile,
"Or look with pitying eyes?
4 ["Will the almighty deign again,
"To visit yonder world;
"And hither bring rebellious men,
"Whence rebels once were hurl'd?
5 "Their tears, and groans, and deep distress,
"Aloud for mercy call;
"But ah! must truth and righteousness
To mercy victims fall?"
6 So spake the friends of God and man,
Delighted, yet surpris'd;
Eager to know the wond'rous plan,
That wisdom had devis'd.]
7 The son of God attentive heard,
And quickly thus reply'd,
"In me let mercy be rever'd,
"And justice satisfy'd.
8 "Behold! my vital blood I pour,
"A sacrifice to God;
"Let angry justice now no more
"Demand the sinner's blood."
9 He spake, and heaven's high arches rung,
With shouts and loud applause;
"He dy'd," the friendly angels sung,
Nor cease their rapturous joys. Scripture: Psalm 65:10 Languages: English
Mercy and Truth met together; or, the Harmony of the divine Perfections
William Kethe
? - 1594 Person Name: William Kethe, de. 1594 Topics: God: His Being, Word and Works God the Father Almighty: The Divine Perfections Author of "O worship the King" in The Book of Praise William Kethe (b. Scotland [?], d. Dorset England, c. 1594). Although both the time and place of Kethe's birth and death are unknown, scholars think he was a Scotsman. A Protestant, he fled to the continent during Queen Mary's persecution in the late 1550s. He lived in Geneva for some time but traveled to Basel and Strasbourg to maintain contact with other English refugees. Kethe is thought to be one of the scholars who translated and published the English-language Geneva Bible (1560), a version favored over the King James Bible by the Pilgrim fathers. The twenty-five psalm versifications Kethe prepared for the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561 were also adopted into the Scottish Psalter of 1565. His versification of Psalm 100 (All People that on Earth do Dwell) is the only one that found its way into modern psalmody.
Bert Polman
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Kethe, William, is said by Thomas Warton in his History of English Poetry, and by John Strype in his Annals of the Reformation, to have been a Scotsman. Where he was born, or whether he held any preferment in England in the time of Edward VI., we have been unable to discover. In the Brieff discours off the troubles begonne at Franckford, 1575, he is mentioned as in exile at Frankfurt in 1555, at Geneva in 1557; as being sent on a mission to the exiles in Basel, Strassburg, &c, in 1558; and as returning with their answers to Geneva in 1559. Whether he was one of those left behind in 1559 to "finishe the bible, and the psalmes bothe in meeter and prose," does not appear. The Discours further mentions him as being with the Earl of Warwick and the Queen's forces at Newhaven [Havre] in 1563, and in the north in 1569. John Hutchins in his County history of Dorset, 1774, vol. ii. p. 316, says that he was instituted in 1561 as Rector of Childe Okeford, near Blandford. But as there were two Rectors and only one church, leave of absence might easily be extended. His connection with Okeford seems to have ceased by death or otherwise about 1593.
The Rev. Sir Talbot H. B. Baker, Bart., of Ranston, Blandford, who very kindly made researches on the spot, has informed me that the Registers at Childe Okeford begin with 1652-53, that the copies kept in Blandford date only from 1732 (the earlier having probably perished in the great fire there in 1731), that no will can be found in the district Probate Court, and that no monument or tablet is now to be found at Childe Okeford.
By a communication to me from the Diocesan Registrar of Bristol, it appears that in a book professing to contain a list of Presentations deposited in the Consistory Court, Kethe is said to have been presented in 1565 by Henry Capel, the Patron of Childe Okeford Inferior. In the 1813 edition of Hutchins, vol. iii. pp. 355-6, William Watkinson is said to have been presented to this moiety by Arthur Capel in 1593.
Twenty-five Psalm versions by Kethe are included in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561, viz. Ps. 27, 36, 47, 54, 58, 62, 70, 85, 88, 90, 91, 94, 100, 101, 104, 107, 111, 112, 113, 122, 125, 126, 134, 138, 142,—the whole of which were adopted in the Scottish Psalter of 1564-65. Only nine, viz. Ps. 104, 107, 111, 112, 113, 122, 125, 126, 134, were included in the English Psalter of 1562; Ps. 100 being however added in 1565. Being mostly in peculiar metres, only one, Ps. 100, was transferred to the Scottish Psalter of 1650. The version of Ps. 104, "My soul, praise the Lord," is found, in a greatly altered form, in some modern hymnals.
Warton calls him ”a Scotch divine, no unready rhymer," says he had seen a moralisation of some of Ovid by him, and also mentions verses by him prefixed to a pamphlet by Christopher Goodman, printed at Geneva in 1558; a version of Ps. 93 added to Knox's Appellation to the Scottish Bishops, also printed at Geneva in 1558; and an anti-papal ballad, "Tye the mare Tom-boy." A sermon he preached before the Sessions at Blandford on Jan. 17, 1571, was printed by John Daye in 1571 (preface dated Childe Okeford, Jan. 29,157?), and dedicated to Ambrose Earl of Warwick. [Rev James Mearns, M.A].
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Kethe, William, p. 624, i., line 30. The version which Warton describes as of Psalm 93 is really of Psalm 94, and is that noted under Scottish Hymnody, p. 1022, ii., as the version of Psalms 94 by W. Kethe.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
William Kethe
Walter C. Smith
1824 - 1908 Person Name: Walter Chalmers Smith, 1824-1809 Topics: God: His Being, Word and Works God the Father Almighty: The Divine Perfections Author of "Immortal, invisible, God only wiseq" in The Book of Praise Smith, Walter Chalmer, D.D., was born at Aberdeen Dec. 5, 1824, and educated at the Grammar School and University of that City. He pursued his Theological studies at Edinburgh, and was ordained Pastor of the Scottish Church in Chad well Street, Islington, London, Dec. 25, 1850. After holding several pastorates he became, in 1876, Minister of the Free High Church, Edinburgh. His contributions to poetical literature have been many and of great merit. His principal works are:—
(1) The Bishop's Walk, 1860; (2) Olrig Grange, 1872; (3) Borland Hall, 1874; (4) Hilda among the Broken Gods, 1878; (5) North Country Folk, 1883; (6) Kildrostan, 1884; (7) Hymns of Christ and Christian Life, 1876.
From his Hymns of Christ, &c, 1876, the following, after revision, were included in Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884 :—
1. Immortal, Invisible, God only wise. God, All in All.
2. Lord, God, Omnipotent. Omnipotence.
3. Our portion is not here. Treasure in Heaven.
4. There is no wrath to be appeased. God is Love. In Horder's Congregational Hymns a new opening stanza was added to this hymn by Dr. Smith at the request of the editor, and in that collection the hymn begins "I vexed me with a troubled thought."
Dr. Smith's hymns are rich in thought and vigorous in expression. They deserve and probably will receive greater notice than hitherto at the hands of hymnal compilers. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Smith, W. C., p. 1064, i. The following additional hymns by Dr. Smith have come into common use, mainly through The Baptist Church Hymnal, 1900:—
1. Earth was waiting, spent and restless. Christmas.
2. Faint and weary Jesus stood. Our Lord's Temptation.
3. If any to the feast have come. Holy Communion.
4. The Lord hath hid His face from us. Providence.
5. To me to live is Christ. Union with Christ.
These hymns appeared in his Hymns of Christ and the Christian Life, 1867, pp. Ill, 122, 241, 10, and 36, respectively. A collected ed. of his Poetical Works (not including his hymns) appeared in 1902. Other hymns that have come into use are:—
1. Gird your loins about with truth. Manliness.
2. Jesus, unto Whom we pray. Christ the Way.
3. One thing I of the Lord desire. Consecration.
Nos. 1, 3 are from his Thoughts and Fancies for Sunday Evenings, 1887, pp. 3, 84. No. 2 is from his Hymns of Christ, 1867, p. 31.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Walter C. Smith
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872 - 1958 Person Name: R. Vaughan Williams, 1872 - 1958 Topics: God: His Being, Word and Works God the Father Almighty: The Divine Perfections Harmonizer of "LASST UNS ERFREUEN" in The Book of Praise Through his composing, conducting, collecting, editing, and teaching, Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, October 12, 1872; d. Westminster, London, England, August 26, 1958) became the chief figure in the realm of English music and church music in the first half of the twentieth century. His education included instruction at the Royal College of Music in London and Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as additional studies in Berlin and Paris. During World War I he served in the army medical corps in France. Vaughan Williams taught music at the Royal College of Music (1920-1940), conducted the Bach Choir in London (1920-1927), and directed the Leith Hill Music Festival in Dorking (1905-1953). A major influence in his life was the English folk song. A knowledgeable collector of folk songs, he was also a member of the Folksong Society and a supporter of the English Folk Dance Society. Vaughan Williams wrote various articles and books, including National Music (1935), and composed numerous arrangements of folk songs; many of his compositions show the impact of folk rhythms and melodic modes. His original compositions cover nearly all musical genres, from orchestral symphonies and concertos to choral works, from songs to operas, and from chamber music to music for films. Vaughan Williams's church music includes anthems; choral-orchestral works, such as Magnificat (1932), Dona Nobis Pacem (1936), and Hodie (1953); and hymn tune settings for organ. But most important to the history of hymnody, he was music editor of the most influential British hymnal at the beginning of the twentieth century, The English Hymnal (1906), and coeditor (with Martin Shaw) of Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928).
Bert Polman
Ralph Vaughan Williams
