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How Firm a Foundation
Author: John Rippon, 1751-1836 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2,169 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 First Line: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord Topics: Pilgrimage; Scripture; Trust Used With Tune: FOUNDATION Text Sources: Called "K" in A Selection of Hymns,, 1787
How Firm a Foundation
The God of Abraham Praise
Author: Thomas Olivers (1725-1799); Daniel ben Judah Meter: 6.6.8.4 D Appears in 456 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 Lyrics: 1 The God of Abraham praise,
who reigns enthroned above;
Ancient of everlasting days,
and God of love;
Jehovah, great I AM!
by earth and heaven confessed:
I bow and bless the sacred Name
forever blest.
2 The great I AM has sworn;
I on this oath depend.
I shall, on eagles' wings upborne,
to heaven ascend.
I shall behold God's face;
I shall God's power adore,
and sing the wonders of God's grace
forevermore.
3 The goodly land I see
with peace and plenty blest;
a land of sacred liberty,
and endless rest.
There milk and honey flow,
and oil and wine abound,
and trees of life forever grow
with mercy crowned.
4 Triumphant hosts on high give thanks
eternally
and "Holy, holy, holy” cry,
"great Trinity!"
Hail Abraham’s God and ours!
One mighty hymn we raise:
all power and majesty be yours
and endless praise! Topics: Abraham and Sarah; Exodus; Gathering of the Community; Moses; Praise of God; Trinity Used With Tune: LEONI Text Sources: The Yigdal; st. 4, rev. Hymns for Today's Church
The God of Abraham Praise
Be Thou My Vision
Author: Mary Elizabeth Byrne, 1800-1931; Eleanor H. Hull, 1860-1935 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 164 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 First Line: Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart Topics: Discipleship; Prayer; Trust; Images of God Used With Tune: SLANE Text Sources: Irish hymn (8th cent.)
Be Thou My Vision
LEONI
Meter: 6.6.8.4 D Appears in 338 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Meier Leon (1751-1797); Thomas Olivers (1725-1799) Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 Tune Sources: Yigdal trad.; harm. Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1875, alt. Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 51234 53456 75234 Used With Text: The God of Abraham Praise
LEONI
FOUNDATION
Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 450 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 Tune Sources: Genuine Church Music, 1832; Harm. Tabor, 1867 Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 56161 51131 35561 Used With Text: How Firm a Foundation
FOUNDATION
How Firm a Foundation
Author: John Rippon, 1751-1836 Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #527 (1998) Meter: 11.11.11.11 Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 First Line: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord Topics: Pilgrimage; Scripture; Trust Languages: English Tune Title: FOUNDATION
How Firm a Foundation
The God of Abraham Praise
Author: Thomas Olivers (1725-1799); Daniel ben Judah Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #347 (1998) Meter: 6.6.8.4 D Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 Lyrics: 1 The God of Abraham praise,
who reigns enthroned above;
Ancient of everlasting days,
and God of love;
Jehovah, great I AM!
by earth and heaven confessed:
I bow and bless the sacred Name
forever blest.
2 The great I AM has sworn;
I on this oath depend.
I shall, on eagles' wings upborne,
to heaven ascend.
I shall behold God's face;
I shall God's power adore,
and sing the wonders of God's grace
forevermore.
3 The goodly land I see
with peace and plenty blest;
a land of sacred liberty,
and endless rest.
There milk and honey flow,
and oil and wine abound,
and trees of life forever grow
with mercy crowned.
4 Triumphant hosts on high give thanks
eternally
and "Holy, holy, holy” cry,
"great Trinity!"
Hail Abraham’s God and ours!
One mighty hymn we raise:
all power and majesty be yours
and endless praise! Topics: Abraham and Sarah; Exodus; Gathering of the Community; Moses; Praise of God; Trinity Languages: English Tune Title: LEONI
The God of Abraham Praise
Be Thou My Vision
Author: Mary Elizabeth Byrne, 1800-1931; Eleanor H. Hull, 1860-1935 Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #505 (1998) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 First Line: Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart Topics: Discipleship; Prayer; Trust; Images of God Languages: English Tune Title: SLANE
Be Thou My Vision
Meyer Lyon
1751 - 1797 Person Name: Meier Leon (1751-1797) Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 Transcriber of "LEONI" in Common Praise (1998) Died: 1797, Kingston, Jamaica.
Pseudonym: Leoni.
Lyon was a chorister at the Great Synagogue, Duke’s Place, London, and a public singer either at Drury Lane or Covent Garden. Subsequently he became the first qualified chazan of the English and German Synagogue in Jamaica.
Sources:
Julian, p. 1151
McCutchan, pp. 27-28
Music: LEONI
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/y/o/lyon_m.htm
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Meyer Lyon
John Rippon
1751 - 1836 Person Name: John Rippon, 1751-1836 Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 Author of "How Firm a Foundation" in Common Praise (1998) Rippon, John, D.D., was born at Tiverton, Devon, April 29, 1751, and was educated for the ministry at the Baptist College, Bristol. In 1773 he became Pastor of the Baptist church in Carter Lane, Tooley Street (afterwards removed to New Park Street), London, and over this church he continued to preside until his death, on Dec. 17, 1836. The degree of D.D. was conferred on him in 1792 by the Baptist College, Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Rippon was one of the most popular and influential Dissenting ministers of his time. From 1790 to 1802 he issued the Baptist Annual Register, a periodical containing an account of the most important events in the history of the Baptist Denomination in Great Britain and America during that period, and very valuable now as a book of reference. But his most famous work is his Selection of hymns for public worship, which appeared in 1787. The full title of the first edition is A selection of Hymns from the best authors, intended as an Appendix to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns. In 1791 he published a Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes from the Best Authors, adapted to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns, and to his own Selection, and from that time the names of tunes were prefixed to the hymns in the successive editions of his hymn-book. In 1800 he published the 10th ed. of his Selections, containing more than sixty additional hymns.
In 1827 it was still further enlarged, and in 1844, after his death, appeared The Comprehensive Edition, commonly known as The Comprehensive Rippon, containing most of the additional hymns, with about 400 then first added, making in all upwards of 1170, in 100 metres. A rival to the Comprehensive was also afterwards published under the old title, somewhat enlarged. In the preparation of the original book, and its subsequent improvement, Dr. Rippon performed an important service to Baptist Hymnody, and also, it is said, gained for himself "an estate" through its immense sale. In the preface to the tenth edition lie claims for himself the authorship of some of the hymns, but as he refrained from affixing his name to any of the hymns it is impossible now to say with certainty which ought to be ascribed to him. There can, however, be no reasonable doubt that hymn 535, 3rd part, "The day has dawned, Jehovah comes" (q.v.), is one of his compositions. Other hymns, probably by him, are, "Amid the splendours of Thy state" (Love of God), 1800; and "There is joy in heaven, and joy on earth" (Joy over the Repenting Sinner), 1787. He also altered the texts of and made additions to several of the older hymns. Some of these altered texts are still in common use. In 1830 the additions given in the 27th ed., 1827, of Rippon's Selections were reprinted, with notes by Dr. Slater, as:—
Hymns Original and Selected; interspersed in the Twenty-seventh edition of the Selection, with Numerous Doxologies, in the Usual, the Peculiar, and in the less Common metres. By John Rippon, D.D.
A second edition of this pamphlet of 82 hymns and doxologies appeared in 1832. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Rippon
Thomas Olivers
1725 - 1799 Person Name: Thomas Olivers (1725-1799) Scripture: Genesis 15:1-18 Paraphraser (sts. 1-3) of "The God of Abraham Praise" in Common Praise (1998) Thomas Olivers was born in Tregonan, Montgomeryshire, in 1725. His youth was one of profligacy, but under the ministry of Whitefield, he was led to a change of life. He was for a time apprenticed to a shoemaker, and followed his trade in several places. In 1763, John Wesley engaged him as an assistant; and for twenty-five years he performed the duties of an itinerant ministry. During the latter portion of his life he was dependent on a pension granted him by the Wesleyan Conference. He died in 1799.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872.
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Olivers, Thomas, was born at Tregynon, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, in 1725. His father's death, when the son was only four years of age, followed by that of the mother shortly afterwards, caused him to be passed on to the care of one relative after another, by whom he was brought up in a somewhat careless manner, and with little education. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker. His youth was one of great ungodliness, through which at the age of 18 he was compelled to leave his native place. He journeyed to Shrewsbury, Wrexham, and Bristol, miserably poor and very wretched. At Bristol he heard G. Whitefield preach from the text "Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?" That sermon turned the whole current of his life, and he became a decided Christian. His intention at the first was to join the followers of Whitefield, but being discouraged from doing so by one of Whitefield's preachers, he subsequently joined the Methodist Society at Bradford-on-Avon. At that town, where he purposed carrying on his business of shoemaking, he met John Wesley, who, recognising in him both ability and zeal, engaged him as one of his preachers. Olivers joined Wesley at once, and proceeded as an evangelist to Cornwall. This was on Oct. 1, 1753. He continued his work till his death, which took place suddenly in London, in March 1799. He was buried in Wesley's tomb in the City Road Chapel burying ground, London. Olivers was for some time co-editor with J. Wesley of the Arminian Magazine, but his lack of education unfitted him for the work. As the author of the tune Helmsley, and of the hymn “The God of Abraham praise," he is widely known. He also wrote “Come Immortal King of glory;" and "O Thou God of my salvation," whilst residing at Chester; and an Elegy on the death of John Wesley. His hymns and the Elegy were reprinted (with a Memoir by the Rev. J. Kirk) by D. Sedgwick, in 1868.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Thomas Olivers
