Short Name: | James Hutton |
Full Name: | Hutton, James, 1715-1795 |
Birth Year: | 1715 |
Death Year: | 1795 |
James Hutton, son of a clergyman and cousin to Sir Isaac Newton, was born in London, Sept. 3, 1715, and followed for some years the trade of a bookseller. In 1739 he visited the Moravian settlement at Herrnbut, where he became acquainted with Count Zinzendorf. He retired from business in 1745, and was ordained a diaconus of the Moravian Church in 1749. He died May 3, 1795. He contributed several hymns to the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. All his hymns were included in an Appendix to his Memoirs, published by Daniel Benham in 1856.
--Dictionary of Hymnology, John Julian, 1907
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Hutton, James, p. 545, ii. Concerning his hymns we have to note: (1) that No. 3 [p. 546, i.] appeared in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1743, Pt. ii.. No. 242, as "Ah Love! come, sweetly bind me"; and that in some modern collections it begins "0 gracious Saviour [Shepherd], bind us;" (2) and that No. 4 also appeared in 1743, No. 284, as, "How shall the young men cleanse their ways.”
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Texts by James Hutton (12)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Besprinkle with thy blood my heart | James Hutton (Author) | 7 | |
Brethren what do you desire | James Hutton (Author) | 2 | |
Come faithful Shepherd bind me | James Hutton (Author) | English | 9 |
How shall a young man cleanse his way | James Hutton (Author) | 5 | |
My opening eyes with rapture see | James Hutton (Author) | English | 20 |
O gracious Shepherd, bind us | James Hutton (Author) | English | 3 |
O teach me more of Thy blest ways | James Hutton (Author) | English | 3 |
O teach us more of Thy blest ways | James Hutton (Author) | English | 1 |
Teach me yet more of Thy blest ways | James Hutton (Author) | English | 12 |
The Lord Jehovah, slow to wrath | Hutton (Author) | 4 | |
This is the day the Lord hath made, He calls the hours His own | James Hutton (Alterer) | English | 1 |
Where shall the weary rest | James Hutton (Author) | 1 |