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Besprinkle with thy blood my heart

Author: James Hutton Appears in 8 hymnals

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Besprinkle with Thy blood my heart

Author: James Hutton, 1715-95 Hymnal: Offices of Worship and Hymns #100 (1891)

Besprinkle with thy blood my heart

Author: James Hutton Hymnal: A Collection of Evangelical Hymns; made from Different Authors and Collections for the English Lutheran Church in New York #d22 (1797) Languages: English

Besprinkle with thy blood my heart

Author: James Hutton Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren. Rev. ed. #d70 (1813) Languages: English

1715 - 1795 Author of "Besprinkle with thy blood my heart" 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 ================= 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)