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| Short Name: | J. Brewer |
| Full Name: | Brewer, J. (Jehoiada), 1752?-1817 |
| Birth Year (est.): | 1752 |
| Death Year: | 1817 |
Brewer, Jehoiada, the "Sylvestris" of the Gospel Magazine, 1776, &c, was born at Newport, Monmouthshire, in 1752. He was educated for commercial pursuits, but subsequently became a Congregational Minister, and as such was pastor at Rodborough, Gloucestershire; at Sheffield, to which he went in 1783; at Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham (1798); and at the Livery Street Chapel, in the same town. He died Aug. 24, 1817. A Memoir of him appeared in the Evangelical Register, 1835, p. 396. His best-known hymn is—"Hail, Sovereign Love, that first began" (q. v.).
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Texts by J. Brewer (4) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against the God that rules the sky | Jehoida Brewer (Author) | 4 | |
| Hail sovereign love! that first began | J. Brewer (Author) | English | 154 |
| Little drops of water, Little grains of sand | Dr. Brewer (Author) | English | 3 |
| Megmentő, nagy-nagy Irgalom | J. Brewer (Author) | Hungarian | 2 |
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