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Joseph Hoskins
1745 - 1788 Author of "Lord, we adore thy matchless ways" Hoskins, Joseph, was born in 1745, but at what place is unknown. He was a Congregational Minister, who for ten years laboured with great success at Castle Green Chapel, Bristol, and died Sept. 28, 1788, aged 43. During the three years previous to his death ho had written 384 hymns, which in the year following, after correction and revision, were published by Messrs. Moody & Bottomley, Congregational Ministers. The book is entitled, Hymns on Select Texts of Scripture and Occasional Subjects (Bristol, 1789). From this work the following hymns are in common use:—
1. Alas! my [the] Lord my Life is gone. Spiritual darkness and death.
2. Great Light of life, Thou nature's Lord. God, the True Light.
3. In Thy great Name, 0 Lord, we come. Divine Worship.
4. 0 how the hearts of those revive. Joy in Salvation.
5. Prisoners of sin and Satan too. Hope.
6. Saviour of sinners, deign to shine. Christ's light desired.
7. The time is short, ere all that live. Shortness of Time.
Hoskins's hymns are said to have been greatly esteemed by his friends and hearers, but they have little poetic merit. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
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Hoskins, J., p. 535, ii. Additional pieces from his Hymns, &c, 1789, in common use, in America include:— (1) "Let thoughtless thousands choose the road" (Life in Christ), p. 312; (2) "To-day the Saviour rose" (Easter), p. 364; (3) "Behold, behold the Lamb of God" (Invitation!), p. 242.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II
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Hoskins, Joseph, pp. 535, ii., 1571, ii. The following additional hymns by Hoskins are in The New Psalms and Hymns (Presbyterian), Richmond, Va., 1901:—
1. It shall be well, let sinners know. The Promises of God.
2. Sinners, behold the Lamb of God. The Atonement; and in the Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes ... of the Evang. Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, 1899:—
3. On Christ, by faith, my soul would live, from "Let thoughtless thousands," &c. p. 1571, ii. These hymns are from his Hymns, &c, 1789. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Joseph Hoskins
Job Hupton
1762 - 1849 Person Name: Upton Author of "Lord, we adore thy matchless ways" in Social Hymns, and Spiritual Songs Hupton, Job, was born in 1762, at a small village near Burton-on-Trent. He was brought up to work at a forge, but after his conversion through the preaching of the Rev. John Bradford, one of Lady Huntingdon's ministers, whom he heard at Walsal, he began to preach; and after a few months at Trevecca College, was himself employed by Lady Huntingdon for some years as one of her itinerating ministers. Having changed his views on the subject of Baptism, he became, in 1794, pastor of the Baptist church at Claxton, in Norfolk, where he laboured with much success for many years. He died Oct. 19, 1849.
Hupton wrote much both in prose and verse, his compositions appearing in the Gospel Magazine under the signatures of “Ebenezer," "Eliakini, and "J. H—n." His prose writings were collected and published in 1843, under the title The Truth as it is in Jesus. In 1861, D. Sedgwick reprinted his Hymns & Spiritual Poems, with a brief memoir.
Of his 22 hymns three only are in common use:—
1. Come ye saints and raise an anthem. Praise.
2. Glorious, high, and lofty One. The Dominion of God. In Gospel Magazine, June, 1806.
3. Jesus, Omnipotent to save. Lent.
The first of these, "Come ye," &c. (q.v.), in its altered form by Dr. Neale, is in extensive use, the rest ore in a few hymn-books only. Hupton had a bold and vigorous imagination and great command of language. If in early life he had enjoyed better educational advantages, he would probably have attained to eminence as a poet. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M. A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
Job Hupton
