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Thomas Sternhold
1449 - 1549 Hymnal Number: 22c Author (stanza 1) of "All ye that fear Him, praise the Lord" in Spurgeon's Own Hymn Book Thomas Sternhold was Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII and Edward VI. With Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one; Hopkins and others composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late Groome of the King's Majestye's Robes, did in his Lyfetime drawe into Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Montgomery says: "The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his "Athenae Oxonlenses" (1691, vol. I, p. 62), has the following account of the origin of Sternhold's psalms: "Being a most zealous reformer, and a very strict liver, he became so scandalized at the amorous and obscene songs used in the Court, that he, forsooth, turned into English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets; but they did not, some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in these times, they were thought fit to be sung in all parochial churches." Of Sternhold and Hopkins, old Fuller says: "They were men whose piety was better than their poetry, and they had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon." Sternhold and Hopkins may be taken as the representatives of the strong tendency to versify Scripture that came with the Reformation into England--a work men eagerly entered on without the talent requisite for its successful accomplishment. The tendency went so far, that even the "Acts of the Apostles" was put into rhyme, and set to music by Dr. Christopher Tye.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.
Thomas Sternhold
Robert Allen Scott
1804 - 1870 Person Name: Robert Allan Scott Hymnal Number: 115 Author of "All glory be to Thee" in Spurgeon's Own Hymn Book Scott, Robert Allen, M.A., was b. 1804, and educated at Balliol, Oxford (B.A., 1828). Taking Holy Orders, he was successively Curate of Sheriffhales and Woodcote, Shropshire, and of Church Eaton, Staffordshire, and Vicar of Cranwell, Lincolnshire. He died 1870. In addition to his Paraphrases, he published Parish Rhymes for Schools and Cottages, in 1841. Two of his paraphrases are in common use:—“All glory be to Thee," Ps. 115, and "Lord, Thou hast formed my every part," Ps. 139.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Robert Allen Scott
John Beaumont
1800 - 1900 Hymnal Number: 144 Author of "I'll bless my Saviour God" in Spurgeon's Own Hymn Book Beaumont, John. From his Original Psalms, 1834, the following have been transferred to Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, l1866:— (1) "I'll bless my Saviour, God." Ps. cxliv. (2) “Lord, I daily call on Thee." Ps. cxli. (3) "Many times since days of youth." Ps. cxxix.(4) "Praise ye Jehovah, shout and sing." Ps. cxlviii. [No. 243.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Beaumont
William J. Hall
Hymnal Number: 22c Author (stanza 4) of "All ye that fear Him, praise the Lord" in Spurgeon's Own Hymn Book
William J. Hall
William Goode
1762 - 1816 Hymnal Number: 20 Author of "Jesus, with Thy salvation blest" in Spurgeon's Own Hymn Book Goode, William, M.A., born in Buckingham, April 2, 1762, and received his early education, first in that town, and then under the care of the Rev. T. Bull, a Dissenting minister, at Newport Pagnel. Having a strong inclination for Holy Orders, he left the business in which he was engaged with his father, and, in 1780, entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1784, and M.A., 1787. On taking Holy Orders in 1786, he became curate of Abbots Langley, Herts; then of St. Ann's, Blackfriars, and subsequently rector of the latter parish, adding thereto one or two lectureships. He died April 15, 1816. Mr. Goode's interest in foreign mission work was very earnest, and took a practical turn in assisting to found the Church Missionary Society. His prose works include Sermons, 1812 ; and Essays on all the Scriptural Names and Titles of Christ, &c, which were reprinted from the Christian Guardian, 1813-1816. His Works, together with a Memoir, were published in 1822 (6 vols.), and edited by his son. His version of the Psalms was published as:—
An Entire New Version of the Book of Psalms in which an attempt is made to accommodate them to the worship of the Christian Church, in a variety of measures now in general use, with original Preface and Notes, critical and explanatory, By the Rev. William Goode, M.A., Rector of St. Andrew, Wardrobe, and St. Ann, Blackfriars; Lecturer of St. John of Wapping; and Lady Camden's Tuesday Evening Lecturer at the Church of St. Lawrance, Jewry. In two volumes. London: Printed for the Author by W. Wilson . . . and sold by Rivingtons, &c, 1811. 2nd ed., 1813; 3rd ed., 1816.
Pratt, in 1829; Bickersteth, in 1833; and Kemble in 1853, made extensive use of this version of the Psalms, the latter including nearly fifty pieces in his Collection. Most of these have fallen out of Use, one only being retained in Kemble's New Church Hymn Book, 1873. In modern hymnals in Great Britain and America about twenty of Goode's versions are still in common use. These include,"Jesus, with Thy salvation blest"; "Lord, I delight to find my place"; "Thou gracious God and kind"; "With songs of grateful praise," &c. The following are still in common use:—
1. Crown His head with endless blessing. Ps. cxviii.
2. Far as the isles extend. Ps. lxxii.
3. How blest are they whose hearts sincere. Ps. cxix.
4. How blest the man with mercy crowned. Ps. xxxii.
5. If the Lord bad not heard, may Israel now say. Ps. cxxiv.
6. Jesus, with Thy salvation blest. Ps. xx.
7. Let Thy grace, Lord, make me [us] lowly. Ps. cxxxi.
8. Lo in Gethsemane's dark shade. Ps. lxxxviii.
9. Lo, the mighty God appearing. Ps. l.
10. Lord, I delight to find my place. Ps. xxvi.
11. Lord of mercy, just and kind. Ps. xiii.
12. Lord, Thy Church hath seen Thee rise. Ps. Ixviii.
13. Now let Our songs arise. Ps. xcvi.
14. 0 my God, by Thee forsaken. Ps. xlii.
15. Prepare a new song Jehovah to praise. Ps. cxlix.
16. Songs anew of honour framing. Ps. xcviii.
17. Thou gracious God and kind. Ps. Ixxix.
18. Though sinners boldly join. Ps. ii.
19. With songs of grateful praise. Ps. cvii.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
William Goode
Chris Fenner
Editor of "" in Spurgeon's Own Hymn Book B.A., Western Michigan University (2003); M.A., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (2011); M.L.I.S, University of Kentucky (2017). Digital Archivist at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Editor of The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of Isaac Watts (2016), Spurgeon's Own Hymn Book (2019), and Amazing Love! How Can It Be: Studies on Hymns by Charles Wesley (2020). Volunteer editor for Hymnary.org; founder and editor of Hymnology Archive (hymnologyarchive.com).
Chris Fenner
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