Sedgwick's manuscript correspondence before us) Sedgwick carried on a long controversy in the Notes and Queries and other periodicals, in 1858-9, contending throughout that "Diana Bindon" was a personal friend of Lady Huntingdon's, and that she had made her manuscript copy direct from another ms. Upon this evidence alone (we write with the Diana Bindon manuscript and D. Wesley's hymn "Jesu, help Thy fallen creatures," from his Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1749, vol. beginning, "If Thou ever didst discover," from C. being the same, with slight differences in the text, as that noted above as being in the Collection of Hymns used by the Church of Christ in Angel Alley, Bishopsgate, 1759 and stanza v. Amongst the manuscript hymns is "Come, Thou Fount of every blessing." It is headed, “Hymn by the Countess of Huntingdon." It is in 5 stanzas, i.-iv. The Wesley publications named on the first leaf reach down to 1756.Ģ. 6, Diana Vandeleur," but the year is not given. On the title page of this book is written in the same hand¬writing "Diana Bindon, 1759." On the inside of the cover of the book is pasted a Wesleyan Methodist quarterly ticket containing a small engraving of Christ washing one of the disciples' feet. These fill 10 leaves of the 21, and the rest are blank. Following it are hymns copied from Cennick, Watts, &c. On the first leaf is written a list of several of the poetical publications of the Wesleys. Wesley's Hymns & Sacred Poems, Dublin, 1747, are 21 leaves of writing paper. Robert Robinson, 1861, claims it for him.ġ. of Robinson's Miscellaneous Works, Harlow, 1807, vol. 509, and for the "New Year." It is in 3 stanzas, and signed Robinson.Ĥ. Rippon, the compiler of the well-known Baptist Selection of Hymns, 1787, in which he acknowledges that one or two hymns in that Selection were by Robinson, and names "Come, Thou Fount of every blessing" as one. Robinson, 1796, states that amongst Robinson's papers there was a letter from Dr. Dyer, in his Memoirs of the Life & Writings of S. of A Collection of Hymns adapted to Public Worship, 1778 and has since been repeated in almost every collection in which authors' names are given from that date to the present.ģ. The entry in his own handwriting in the Cambridge Church Book, in which he enumerates it with his various productions as noted above.Ģ. This has been claimed for Robert Robinson, on the one part, and for the Countess of Huntingdon on the other. The text, as in Madan's Psalms & Hymns, 1760, which is the 1759 text with the omission of stanza iv., is that usually adopted by modern compilers, and is given in Lyra Britannica, 1867, p. Whitefield's Psalms & Hymns, 14th ed., 1767 the Countess of Huntingdon's Collection, 1764 and most of the hymn-books published during the latter part of the last century. The second and well-known form of the hymn in the first three stanzas as given above is found in M. Shortly afterwards, however, it seems to have fallen out of use.ĥ. This text was repeated in the Hearers of the Apostles Collection of Hymns, Nottingham, 1777 and in a Dublin Collection, 1785. “O, that day when free from sinning."Ĥ. i., and in 4 stanzas, beginning respectively:— The earliest known text in print is in A Collection of Hymns used by the Church of Christ in Angel-Alley, Bishopsgate, 1759, now in the library of the Drew Theological College, Madison, New Jersey, U.S.A. Wheatley of Norwich" in which this hymn can be found.ģ. Nothing has yet been found which can be identified as being issued by "Mr. This entry forms part of a manuscript list of the works which R. Wheatley of Norwich published a hymn beginning "Come, Thou Fount of every blessing" (1758). William Robinson, of Cambridge, his biographer, there is an entry in Robert Robinson's handwriting which reads:— “Mr. In a Church Book, kept by Robert Robinson (q.v.), of Cambridge, and in the possession of the Rev. As various and conflicting statements concerning this hymn abound, it will be necessary to trace, first its History, so far as known and 2nd, to discuss the question of its Authorship.ġ.
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