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For thee, O God, our constant praise
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 79 hymnals Matching Instances: 79 Used With Tune: PARK STREET Text Sources: Tate and Brady
For thee, O God, our constant praise
[For thee, O God, our constant praise]
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 101 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: Stanley Burder Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 55654 32111 76543 Used With Text: For thee, O God, our constant praise
[For thee, O God, our constant praise]
STONEFIELD
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 52 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13321 55711 11175 Used With Text: For thee, O God, our constant praise
STONEFIELD
PARK STREET
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 312 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: F. M. A. Venua Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11112 32171 33334 Used With Text: For thee, O God, our constant praise
PARK STREET
For Thee, O God, Our Constant Praise
Author: Nahum Tate; Nicholas Brady Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #1651 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1. For Thee, O God, our constant praise
In Zion waits, Thy chosen seat;
Our promised altars we will raise,
And there our zealous vows complete.
2. O Thou, who to my humble prayer
Didst always bend Thy listening ear,
To Thee shall all mankind repair,
And at Thy gracious throne appear.
3. Our sins, though numberless, in vain,
To stop Thy flowing mercy try;
Whilst Thou o’erlook’st the guilty stain,
And washest out the crimson dye.
4. Blest is the man, who, near Thee placed,
Within Thy sacred dwelling lies!
While we, at humbler distance, taste
The vast delights Thy temple gives. Languages: English Tune Title: DUKE STREET
For Thee, O God, Our Constant Praise
For thee, O God, our constant praise
Hymnal: Church Choral-Book #502 (1860) Languages: English Tune Title: GASTORIUS
For thee, O God, our constant praise
For thee, O God, our constant praise
Author: N. Tate; N. Brady Hymnal: The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #480 (1894) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 For Thee, O God, our constant praise
In Sion waits, Thy chosen seat;
Our promised altars there we'll raise,
And all our zealous vows complete.
2 Thou, Who to every humble prayer
Dost always bend Thy listening ear,
To Thee shall all mankind repair,
An at Thy gracious throne appear.
3 Our sins, though numberless, in vain
To stop Thy flowing mercy try;
Whilst Thou o'erlook'st the guilty stain,
And washest out the crimson dye.
4 Blest is the man who, near Thee placed,
Within Thy sacred dwelling lives!
'Tis there abundantly we taste
The vast delights Thy temple gives.
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: [For thee, O God, our constant praise]
For thee, O God, our constant praise
Nahum Tate
1652 - 1715 Author of "For Thee, O God, Our Constant Praise" in The Cyber Hymnal Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors, on August 12, 1715.
--The Hymnal 1940 Companion
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Nicholas Brady
1659 - 1726 Author of "For Thee, O God, Our Constant Praise" in The Cyber Hymnal Nicholas Brady, the son of an officer in the Royalist army, was born in Brandon, Ireland, 1659. He studied at Westminster School, and at Christ Church College, oxford, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. He held several positions in the ministry, but later in life retired to Richmond Surrey, where he established a school. Here he translated some of the Psalms. Several volumes of his sermons and smaller works were published, but his chief work, like that of his co-colabourer Tate, was the "Metrical Version of Psalms."
This version was authorized by King William in 1696, and has, since that time, taken the place of the earlier translation by Sternhold and Hopkins, which was published in 1562. The whole of the Psalms, with tunes, appeared in 1698, and a Supplement of Church Hymns in 1703. Of this version, which has little poetic merit, Montgomery says "It is nearly as inanimate as the former, though a little more refined." None of the "Metrical Psalms" are to be compared with the Psalms of the Prayer Book Psalter, and very few of them are worthy a place in a collection of hymns.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, 1872.
Nicholas Brady
I. Gregory Smith
1826 - 1920 Person Name: Isaac Smith Author of "For thee, O God, our constant praise" in The Christian Minstrel Smith, Isaac Gregory, M.A., son of Rev. Jeremiah Smith, B.D., was born at Manchester, Nov. 21, 1826, and educated at Rugby and Trinity, Oxford, where he held both the Hertford (1846), and Ireland (1847) scholarships, B.A. 2nd cl. Lit. Sum. 1849. Taking holy orders, he was preferred to the rectory of Tedstone-de-la-Mere, Hertfordshire, 1854; and the Vicarage of Great Malvern, 1872. From 1852 to 1855 he held a fellowship at Brasenose, Oxford, and was also Bampton Lecturer in 1873, his subject being The Characteristics of Christian Morality. In 1870 he became Prebendary of Pratum Minus in Hereford Cathedral, in 1882 Bural Dean of Powick, and examining Chaplain to the Bishop of St. David's, and in 1887 Hon. Canon of Worcester. Prebendary Smith has published, in addition to his Bampton Lectures, an Epitome of the Life of Our Blessed Saviour, &c, Fra Angelica and other Poems, and other works. He has also contributed hymns to the collection of which he was co-editor, and to the Rev. O. Shipley's Lyras. In preparing A Hymn Book for the Services of the Church, and for Private Heading, London, Parker, 1855, 2nd ed., 1857, he was assisted by his brother John George Smith, Barrister-at-Law, and the Rev. W. S. Raymond. To this collection Canon Smith contributed:
1. By Jesu's grave on either hand. Easter Eve.
2. The tide of years [time] is rolling on. The Circumcision and the New Year.
and a translation of "Adeste Fideles." In addition to these the following are in the Westminster Abbey Hymn Book, 1884:—
3. Adown the river, year by year. Second Advent Desired.
4. Comes at times a stillness as of even. Death Anticipated. Written for the unveiling of the Albert Memorial in Edinburgh, and set to music by Sir H. S. Oakeley.
5. The day-beam dies Behind yon cloud. Winter Evening.
There is also in Pt. ii. "For Reading," in the Hymn Book of 1855, a sweet hymn on Heaven beginning "Come away, where are no shadows in a glass."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Smith, I. G., p. 1062, ii. Dr. Smith corrects the note on "Comes at times a stillness as of even," and says respecting it:—
"In 1857, so far as I can tell, I wrote 'Comes at times,' and the interval was very short between the last part and the first. It was not written for the Prince Consort's memorial.nor for any occasion— July26, 1905."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
I. Gregory Smith
