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Go, suffering habitant of earth

Author: William Roscoe Appears in 3 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

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Author: Roscoe Hymnal: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #321 (1866) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) First Line: Go, suffering pilgrim of the earth Lyrics: Go, suffering pilgrim of the earth, Go, conscious of thy heavenly birth, And, ’midst the storms that round thee rise, Retrace thy journey to the skies. What though the wild winds rage around? Thou wilt not tremble at the sound; What though the waters o’er thee roll? They touch not thine immortal soul. See where, arrayed on either hand, The direful train of passions stand; See hatred, envy, bar thy way, And foes more subtle still than they. But, robed in innocence and truth, From all temptation guard thy youth; And from thy vestment’s sacred bound Shake the dread fiends that cling around. Go with pure heart and steadfast eyes, Strive on till that bright morn shall rise That gives thee to thy blest abode, To rest forever with thy God. Languages: English

Go, suffering pilgrim of earth

Author: Roscoe Hymnal: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. (10th ed.) #321 (1848) Hymnal Title: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. (10th ed.) Languages: English

Go, suffering habitant of earth!

Author: Roscoe Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns, for the Christian Church and Home #258 (1843) Hymnal Title: A Collection of Hymns, for the Christian Church and Home Languages: English

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Roscoe

Hymnal Title: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) Author of "The Pilgrim" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)

William Roscoe

1753 - 1831 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "Go, suffering habitant of earth" Roscoe, William, the father, was born March 8, 1753, in Liverpool, of humble origin. After very meagre schooling, and three years of work in his father's market garden, he was articled to an attorney, and subsequently practised in Liverpool till 1796, when he withdrew from the profession. From the first literature was his chief delight, and throughout a long career of public usefulness he united its pursuit with the efforts of enlightened patriotism and the advocacy of higher education and reform. Liverpool was a centre of the old slave-trade, and Roscoe was one of the first to raise his voice against the iniquity. At the age of 20 he had already uttered a protest in his descriptive poem Mount Pleasant, and in 1787 he published a longer poem, The Wrongs of Africa (Pt. ii. 1788), devoted to the subject. During his brief parliamentary experience as member for Liverpool, in 1807, he had further opportunity of advocating the cause of liberty and humanity. His first great historical work, the Life of Lorenzo dé Medici, was published in 1796, and the Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, in 1805. After withdrawing from his legal practice, Roscoe had hoped to be able to devote himself entirely to letters, but the claims of friendship induced him in 1800 to enter into a banking business, which involved him in commercial troubles, ending in 1820 in his bankruptcy. His library had to be sold, but part of it was bought by friends, and presented to the Liverpool Athenæum, which in 1789 Roscoe had been instrumental in founding. In 1822 he published Illustrations of the Life of Lorenzo dé Medici, defending the views adopted in his former history, and two years later edited a new edition of Pope's works, with a life of the poet. He died June 30, 1831. (Cf. The Life of William Roscoe, by his son, Henry Roscoe, in 2 vols., London, T. Cadell, 1833.) As a member of the congregation of Unitarians meeting in Renshaw Street Chapel, Liverpool, Roscoe took part in preparing A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship, printed for their use in 1818. He contributed eight hymns and the concluding anthem. Of these hymns the following are in common use at the present time:— 1. Let our loud song of praise arise. Praise. 2. Go, suffering habitant of earth. Life, a Warfare. 3. Great God, beneath Whose piercing eye. Divine Providence. 4. Thus said Jesus, Go and do. Love to our Neighbour. 5. What is the first and great command ? The Commandments. These hymns are in several Unitarian collections, including Martineau's Hymns, 1840. No. 3 was written in 1788, as a "secular hymn" of ten stanzas, to be sung at the Benn's Garden Chapel on the Centenary of the Revolution. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)