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Joseph Boyse

1660 - 1728 Person Name: Boyse Hymnal Number: 10 Author of "Come, pay the worship God requires" in A Selection of Sacred Poetry Boyse, Joseph, was born at Leeds in 1660, received a good education, and in 1683 became a Presbyterian minister in Dublin, a position he maintained with honour and usefulness until his death in 1728. His prose works, chiefly sermons and controversial treatises, were collected and published by himself in two large folios, London, 1728. He was the author of two collections of hymns. The first, printed in Dublin, in 1693 (small 8vo) with another title-page (London, 1693, Thomas Parkhurst, Cheapside), is entitled as follows:— "Sacramental Hymns collected chiefly out of such passages of the New Testament as contain the most suitable matter of Divine Praises in the celebration of the Lord's Supper. To which is added one hymn relating to Baptism and another to the Ministry. By J. Boyse, with some by other hands." Those by "other hands" are 3 in number, viz. one by G. Herbert, and two by Patrick. Of the remaining 21 by Boyse himself, 18 are for use at the Lord's Supper. From the fact that in the hymn on Baptism immersion is the only mode recognized, it is pretty certain that the author was Baptist in sentiment, though Presbyterian in ecclesiastical position. The other collection by Boyse was printed at Dublin in 1691. It contains 76 hymns, in three parts, with music, and is entitled: — Family Hymn for Morning and Evening Worship, with some for the Lord's days . . . All taken out of the Psalms of David. A copy is in the Antrim Presbytery Library at Queen's College, Belfast. Boyse's hymns are interesting from their early date, but have no merit as poetry. The hymn "Come pay the worship God requires" (Divine Worship), in Martineau's Hymns, 1840, No. 42, is by this author. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Roger Flexman

1708 - 1795 Person Name: Flexman Hymnal Number: 170 Author of "Great God, to Thee my grateful tongue" in A Selection of Sacred Poetry Flexman, Roger, D.D., 1708-1795, b. at Great Torrington, Devon. Educated for the ministry at Tiverton by Rev. John Moore, ordained at Modbury, 1730, and from 1747 to 1783 was minister at Rotherhithe. In 1770 appointed one of the compilers of the Index of the Commons Journals. He contributed 4 hymns to Pope's Collection, 1760:— 1. Great God, to thee my grateful tongue. God the Benefactor. 2. In realms of everlasting light. Saint's Conflict and Reward. 3. Jesus, adorned with grace divine. Second Advent. 4. To God my grateful soul ascend. Ps. cxxi. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Walker

Hymnal Number: 369 Author of "Parent of all, omnipotent In heaven and earth" in A Selection of Sacred Poetry

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Person Name: A. H. Hymnal Number: 19 Author of "Sweet are the praises of the Lord" in A Selection of Sacred Poetry

Mrs. Carter

Person Name: Carter Hymnal Number: 278 Author of "O thou, the wretched's sure retreat" in A Selection of Sacred Poetry

Elizabeth Daye

1733 - 1829 Person Name: Miss Day Hymnal Number: 33 Author of "I'll bless Jehovah's glorious name" in A Selection of Sacred Poetry Daye, Elizabeth, 1733-1829. Daughter of Rev. James Daye, Presbyterian minister at Lancaster (d. 1770). Published a volume of poems at Liverpool, 1798, and contributed to the Monthly Repository. Her hymn Of Worship is in Kippis & Belfast Collection, “I'll bless Jehovah's glorious name." Wallace gives another hymn for Sunday Evening, "0 may the truths this day has taught." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

George Walker

1734 - 1807 Person Name: Walker Hymnal Number: 287 Author of "Enough of life's vain scene I've trod" in A Selection of Sacred Poetry Walker, George, F.R.S., born 1735, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, educated by his uncle, Thomas Walker, dissenting minister at Durham, whom, after further study at Dr. Rotherhain's academy at Kendal, and at Edinburgh and Glasgow, he succeeded in the pulpit there. From Durham Walker removed to Great Yarmouth, and thence in 1772 to the Warrington Academy. While there he published The Doctrine of the Sphere. This and his Treatise on Conic Sections are the chief of his mathematical works. From 1774 to 1798 he was minister at the High Pavement Chapel, Nottingham, and took a prominent part in the public life of the town. His sermons on political events of the time attracted widespread attention, as did his tract The Dissenters’ Plea; or, an appeal of the Dissenters to the Justice, Honour, and Religion of the Kingdom against the Test Laws. This and other essays on religious and philosophical questions were republished after his death in two volumes of Essays on Various Subjects, with a Memoir, 1809. Four volumes of Sermons on Various Subjects were also published (1808), the first two volumes having first appeared in 1790, during his Nottingham ministry. In 1798 he removed to Manchester, as Professor of Theology in the recently founded Manchester Academy and also became president of the Philosophical and Literary Society. His health giving way he spent the last months of his life in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, and died in 1807, while on a visit to London. He was buried in Bunhill-fields. For his Nottingham congregation Walker published A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship, unmixed with the disputed doctrines of any sect. Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for the Editor. 1738. This is one of the chief of the collections made for congregations of Presbyterians in the period of their transition towards Unitarianism. Of the 387 psalms and hymns 141 are taken from Watts, and of the rest the names of 24 authors are given, including T. Scott, Barbauld and Kippis. Walker himself, holding a "tempered Arianism," freely altered the hymns adopted, both for doctrinal reasons, and "to improve the style" of the compositions. He also contributed hymns of his own. Of these the best known are:— 1. Enough of life's vain scene I've trod. 2. Though many faults do me reprove. Part of "How foolish to oppose to God." 3. The earth proclaims its Lord. [Rev.Valentine D. Davis, B.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)