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When with my mind devoutly press'd

Appears in 41 hymnals Used With Tune: KINGWOOD

GANGES

Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 47 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. Chandler Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 13332 55551 56563 Used With Text: When With A Mind Devoutly Pressed

KINGWOOD

Appears in 9 hymnals Incipit: 51117 12221 23321 Used With Text: When with my mind devoutly press'd

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When with [my] mind divinely pressed

Author: Moses Browne Hymnal: The Young Christian's Companion. 2nd ed. #a22 (1829)

When with [my] mind divinely pressed

Author: Moses Browne Hymnal: The Young Christian's Companion #22 (1826)

When with [my] mind divinely pressed

Author: Moses Browne Hymnal: Hymns on Various Subjects #d32 (1824) Languages: English

S. Chandler

b. 1760 Composer of "GANGES" in The Cyber Hymnal

1703 - 1787 Author of "When With A Mind Devoutly Pressed" in The Cyber Hymnal Browne, Moses, was born in humble circumstances in 1703, and was distinguished as a poet and miscellaneous writer. He was Vicar of Olney, Bucks, and for some time Chaplain of Morden College, Blackheath, Kent, where he died Sept. 13, 1787. His poetical works were:— (1) Poems, 1739; (2) The Works, and Rest of the Creation,in two parts. Pt. i. An Essay on the Universe; Pt. ii. Sunday Thoughts, &c, 1752 (6th edition, 1805). His hymns are contained in Pt. iv. of the Sunday Thoughts, together with versions of Ps. 130 and 139. He is known chiefly through his hymn "When with a mind devoutly pressed" (Penitence), which is "Night Song, No. viii.," in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, of the Sunday Thoughts, having originally appeared in his Poems, 1739, p. 457. He complains in a note of editors of hymn-books printing this hymn "from an imperfect copy." It has been ascribed from time to time to various authors. (3) He also published in 1772, a translation of J. L. Zimmerman's Excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ, 1732, from which the hymn, "Tis not too hard, too high an aim," is taken. It is annotated under "Es ist nicht schwert." -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)