O Savior, whose mercy, severe in its kindness

O Savior, whose mercy, severe in its kindness

Author: Robert Grant
Published in 14 hymnals

Author: Robert Grant

Robert Grant (b. Bengal, India, 1779; d. Dalpoorie, India, 1838) was influenced in writing this text by William Kethe’s paraphrase of Psalm 104 in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter (1561). Grant’s text was first published in Edward Bickersteth’s Christian Psalmody (1833) with several unauthorized alterations. In 1835 his original six-stanza text was published in Henry Elliott’s Psalm and Hymns (The original stanza 3 was omitted in Lift Up Your Hearts). Of Scottish ancestry, Grant was born in India, where his father was a director of the East India Company. He attended Magdalen College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1807. He had a distinguished public career a Governor of Bombay and as a member of the British Parliament, where… Go to person page >

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First Line: O Savior, whose mercy, severe in its kindness
Author: Robert Grant
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

O Saviour, Whose mercy severe in its kindness. Sir R. Grant. [Benefits of Affliction.] This poem is found in Sacred Poetry, 2nd Series, Edinburgh, W. Oliphant & Son, circa 1824, No. 149, in 8 stanzas of 4 lines, headed "Benefit of Affliction," and signed "Sir Robert Grant.” In Grant's posthumous Sacred Poems, 1839, it was given unaltered as No. v., with the text "Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest. Psalm xliv. 12." It is given in full in H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, and other American hymnbooks. In the Boston Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, No. 586, "I thought that the course of the pilgrim to heaven," is composed of stanzas v.-vii.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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A Selection of Hymns #461

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Hymns for the Sick-Room #81

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Plymouth Collection #a1184

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Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations #1184

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Songs for Social and Public Worship #1034

Songs in the Night; or Hymns for the Sick and Suffering. 2nd ed. #d125

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #1184

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The Christian Hymn Book #893

The Christian Hymnal #d505

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The Christian Hymnal #253

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The Clifton Chapel Collection of "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs" #535

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The Congregational Hymn Book #572

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The New Congregational Hymn and Tune Book, for Public, Social and Private Worship #683

The Vestry Hymn Book #d393

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