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Plymouth Collection #a665
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Author: Newton Date: 1863
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Christ, a True Friend
One there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend
Author: John Newton (1779)Published in 682 hymnals
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Author: John Newton
John Newton (b. London, England, 1725; d. London, 1807) was born into a Christian home, but his godly mother died when he was seven, and he joined his father at sea when he was eleven. His licentious and tumultuous sailing life included a flogging for attempted desertion from the Royal Navy and captivity by a slave trader in West Africa. After his escape he himself became the captain of a slave ship. Several factors contributed to Newton's conversion: a near-drowning in 1748, the piety of his friend Mary Catlett, (whom he married in 1750), and his reading of Thomas à Kempis' Imitation of Christ. In 1754 he gave up the slave trade and, in association with William Wilberforce, eventually became an ardent abolitionist. After becoming a tide… Go to person page >Arrangements
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Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations #665
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Author: Newton Date: 1855
Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations #665
Poems and Hymns of Dawn #212
Display Title: The Sinner's Friend First Line: One there is above all others Date: 1890
Poems and Hymns of Dawn #212
Praise Songs #166
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Tune Title: LUX PRIMA Author: John Newton Date: 1897
Praise Songs #166
Praises of Jesus #d72
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1865
Praises of Jesus #d72
Prayer Meeting, Revival, and Union Hymns #d47
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1841
Prayer Meeting, Revival, and Union Hymns #d47
Prayers and Hymns for the Church and the Home #d526
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1866
Prayers and Hymns for the Church and the Home #d526
Precious Hymns #106
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Date: 1885
Precious Hymns #106
Precious Hymns #122b
Display Title: The Best Friend First Line: One there is, above all others Date: 1900
Precious Hymns #122b
Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune book #d300
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1907
Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune book #d300
Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune Book. Rev. #d129
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1935
Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune Book. Rev. #d129
Prison Hymn Book #d273
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1867
Prison Hymn Book #d273
Prison Hymn Book #d350
Display Title: There's a Friend above all others, well deserves First Line: There's a Friend above all others, well deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1867
Prison Hymn Book #d350
Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Public Worship, and Approved by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America #H509
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1830
Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Public Worship, and Approved by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America #H509
Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Social, Private and Public Worship #d649
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1848
Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Social, Private and Public Worship #d649
Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Social, Private and Public Worship in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. #d659
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1843
Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Social, Private and Public Worship in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. #d659
Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #823
Display Title: Closer than a brother First Line: One there is above all others Tune Title: WILMOT Author: Newton Date: 1875 Subject: Christ | Friend; Christians | Love for the Savior; Friend | Christ our; Love | For the Savior
Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #823
Psalms and Hymns for the Worship of God #d642
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1866
Psalms and Hymns for the Worship of God #d642
Psalms and Hymns to the Living God #319
Display Title: One There Is Above All Others First Line: One there is above all others Tune Title: GODESBERG Author: John Newton Meter: 87 87 77 Date: 2023 Subject: Salvation |
Psalms and Hymns to the Living God #319
Psalms and Hymns, Adapted to Public Worship #28
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Date: 1835
Psalms and Hymns, Adapted to Public Worship #28
Psalms and Hymns #212
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1872
Psalms and Hymns #212
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #d223
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1899
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #d223
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (14th stereotype ed.) #166
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1843
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (14th stereotype ed.) #166
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (7th ed.) #S163
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1865
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (7th ed.) #S163
Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #B166
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Date: 1847
Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #B166
Revival and Camp Minstrel, containing the Best Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected #d255
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1867
Revival and Camp Minstrel, containing the Best Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected #d255
Revival Gems #25
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Date: 1858
Revival Gems #25
Revival Hymns #d68
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1842
Revival Hymns #d68
Revival Hymns #d95
Display Title: There's a Friend above all others, well deserves First Line: There's a Friend above all others, well deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1876
Revival Hymns #d95
Revival Hymns #124
Display Title: O how He loves! First Line: There's a Friend above all others Date: 1858
Revival Hymns #124
Revival Hymns #128
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Date: 1858
Revival Hymns #128
Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. #d223
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1852
Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. #d223
Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. #d289
Display Title: There's a Friend above all others, well deserves First Line: There's a Friend above all others, well deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1852
Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. #d289
Revival Songs. 4th ed. #d249
Display Title: There's a Friend above all others, well deserves First Line: There's a Friend above all others, well deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1879
Revival Songs. 4th ed. #d249
Reviving Hymns for the New Life. 3rd ed. #d46
Display Title: Precious name, O how sweet First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1875
Reviving Hymns for the New Life. 3rd ed. #d46
Sabbath School and Social Hymns of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the U.S.A. #d202
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1843
Sabbath School and Social Hymns of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the U.S.A. #d202
Sabbath School Choir #d65
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1857
Sabbath School Choir #d65
Sabbath School Gems #d97
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1850
Sabbath School Gems #d97
Sabbath School Gems of Music and Poetry #99
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Date: 1858
Sabbath School Gems of Music and Poetry #99
Sabbath School Psalmody #d36
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1833
Sabbath School Psalmody #d36
Sabbath School Vocalist #d80
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1848
Sabbath School Vocalist #d80
Sabbath Songs and Spiritual Hymns #14
Display Title: Above All Others First Line: One there is above all others Date: 1881
Sabbath Songs and Spiritual Hymns #14
Sabbath Songs for Children's Worship #d125
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1869
Sabbath Songs for Children's Worship #d125
Sacred Melodies #d203
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1843
Sacred Melodies #d203
Sacred Melodies (Revised) #d239
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1889
Sacred Melodies (Revised) #d239
Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #44
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Author: Newton Date: 1842
Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #44
Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #54
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Author: Newton Date: 1855
Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #54
Sacred Songs for Social Worship #47
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1876
Sacred Songs for Social Worship #47
Sacred Songs No. 2 #163
Display Title: One Above all Others First Line: One there is above all others Tune Title: [One there is above all others] Author: J. Newton Scripture: Proverbs 18:24 Date: 1899 Subject: Grace | ; Love |
Sacred Songs No. 2 #163
Sacred Songs No. 2 (words ed.) #d131
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1900
Sacred Songs No. 2 (words ed.) #d131
Salvation Soldier's Song Book #d177
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1880
Salvation Soldier's Song Book #d177
School and Parish Hymnal #145
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Tune Title: THEOPHILUS Author: John Newton (1725-1807) Date: 1903
School and Parish Hymnal #145
Schools Lyrics #d172
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1875
Schools Lyrics #d172
Seamen's Devotional Assistant and Mariners' Hymns (American Seamen's Friend Society) #d378
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1830
Seamen's Devotional Assistant and Mariners' Hymns (American Seamen's Friend Society) #d378
Seamen's Devotional Assistant, and Mariners' Hymns; prepared under direction of the American Seamen's Friend Society #62
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Date: 1838
Seamen's Devotional Assistant, and Mariners' Hymns; prepared under direction of the American Seamen's Friend Society #62
Select Gems #75
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Tune Title: TALMAR Author: Rev. John Newton Date: 1889
Select Gems #75
Select Hymns #d141
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1850
Select Hymns #d141
Select Hymns #d350
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1854
Select Hymns #d350
Select Hymns from Other Authors, Selected Harmony Together with Directions for Musical Expression. 2nd ed. #a64
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1817
Select Hymns from Other Authors, Selected Harmony Together with Directions for Musical Expression. 2nd ed. #a64
Select Hymns, The Third Part of Christian Psalmody. 3rd ed. #aa64
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1819
Select Hymns, The Third Part of Christian Psalmody. 3rd ed. #aa64
Select Hymns #59
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Author: Newton Date: 1837
Select Hymns #59
Select Hymns #64
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1823
Select Hymns #64
Select Melodies, comprising the Best of Those Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Common Use #d174
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1846
Select Melodies, comprising the Best of Those Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Common Use #d174
Select Melodies, Comprising the Best of Those Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Common Use not Found in the Standard Methodist Episcopal Hymnal #d177
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1843
Select Melodies, Comprising the Best of Those Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Common Use not Found in the Standard Methodist Episcopal Hymnal #d177
Select Melodies; Comprising the Best Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Common Use, and not generally found in standard church hymn-books #91
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Date: 1856
Select Melodies; Comprising the Best Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Common Use, and not generally found in standard church hymn-books #91
Selected Songs #d76
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1882
Selected Songs #d76
Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #456a
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Tune Title: ALL SAINTS Author: John Newton, 1725 - 1807 Date: 1958 Subject: The Life In Christ | Comfort and Rest; The Life in Christ | Petition and Intercession
Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #456a
Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #456b
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Tune Title: DANA Author: John Newton, 1725 - 1807 Date: 1958 Subject: The Life In Christ | Comfort and Rest; The Life in Christ | Petition and Intercession
Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #456b
Singing for Joy #d178
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1902
Singing for Joy #d178
Singing on the Way #41b
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Tune Title: [One there is above all others] Author: J. Newton Date: 1882
Singing on the Way #41b
Social and Camp-meeting Songs, for the Pious (9th ed. enl.) #115
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Meter: 7. 8. Date: 1827
Social and Camp-meeting Songs, for the Pious (9th ed. enl.) #115
Social Hymn and Tune Book #d325
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1865
Social Hymn and Tune Book #d325
Social Hymn Book #118
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Date: 1866
Social Hymn Book #118
Soldier's Friend #d83
Display Title: There's a Friend above all others, well deserves First Line: There's a Friend above all others, well deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1865
Soldier's Friend #d83
Soldier's Prayer Book. Hospitals ed. #d71
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1862
Soldier's Prayer Book. Hospitals ed. #d71
Song Evangel #d119
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1906
Song Evangel #d119
Song Worship for Sunday Schools #27f
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Date: 1884
Song Worship for Sunday Schools #27f
Song-Flowers #d99
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1868
Song-Flowers #d99
Songs for Social and Public Worship #886
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Date: 1863
Songs for Social and Public Worship #886
Songs for Social and Public Worship #1006
Display Title: There's a Friend above all others First Line: There's a Friend above all others Date: 1863
Songs for Social and Public Worship #1006
Songs for Social and Public Worship. Rev. ed. #d332
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1864
Songs for Social and Public Worship. Rev. ed. #d332
Songs for Sunday Schools and Gospel Meetings #151b
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1876
Songs for Sunday Schools and Gospel Meetings #151b
Songs for the New Life #d518
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1869
Songs for the New Life #d518
Songs for the Sabbath School #d19
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1867
Songs for the Sabbath School #d19
Songs for the Sabbath School and Vestry #S10
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Date: 1860
Songs for the Sabbath School and Vestry #S10
Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #763
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1872
Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #763
Songs for the Sanctuary; or Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Baptist Ed.) #763
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1869
Songs for the Sanctuary; or Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Baptist Ed.) #763
Songs for the Sanctuary; or, Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Words only) #763
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Meter: 8s & 7s. Scripture: Proverbs 18:24 Date: 1868 Subject: Christ | Friend; Christ | Love; The Christian | Love for the Saviour
Songs for the Sanctuary; or, Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Words only) #763
Songs for the Sanctuary #763
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Tune Title: WILMOT Scripture: Proverbs 18:24 Date: 1868 Subject: Christ | Friend; Christ | Love; The Christian | Love for the Saviour
Songs for the Sanctuary #763
Songs for the Sanctuary #763
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1871
Songs for the Sanctuary #763
Songs for the Sanctuary #763
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1875
Songs for the Sanctuary #763
Songs for Young and Old #d118
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1927
Songs for Young and Old #d118
Songs of Christian Praise with Music #d433
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1880
Songs of Christian Praise with Music #d433
Songs of Devotion for Christian Assocations #20
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1870
Songs of Devotion for Christian Assocations #20
Songs of Gladness for the Sabbath School #57b
Display Title: One there is above all others First Line: One there is above all others Tune Title: MOZART Date: 1869
Songs of Gladness for the Sabbath School #57b
Songs of Joy #d85
Display Title: We sing the Friend of sinners First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1870
Songs of Joy #d85
Songs of Pilgrimage #1321
Display Title: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves First Line: One there is above all others, well [who] deserves Author: John Newton Date: 1888
Songs of Pilgrimage #1321
Songs of Praise and Prayer #184
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Tune Title: ONE THERE IS ABOVE ALL OTHERS Author: John Newton Date: 1883
Songs of Praise and Prayer #184
Songs of Praise and Prayer #184
Display Title: One there is, above all others First Line: One there is, above all others Tune Title: ONE THERE IS ABOVE ALL OTHERS Author: John Newton Date: 1889
Songs of Praise and Prayer #184
Songs of Praise with Tunes #414
Display Title: Closer than a Brother First Line: One there is, above all others Tune Title: DORRNANCE Author: Rev. John Newton (1725-1807) Scripture: Proverbs 18:24; Song of Solomon 5:16; John 15:13; Romans 5:7-8 Date: 1889 Subject: Christ | Friend; Christ | Love of; Love | For Christ
Songs of Praise with Tunes #414
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