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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 167

The following April the complete hymn, On the Resurrection, the Lord is King, appeared in the same magazine. The second verse is

Let high-born seraphs tune the lyre,

And as they tune it, fall Before His face who tunes their choir,

And crown Him Lord of all.

It appeared in his Occasional Verses, 1785. In Selection of Hymns, 1787 (by Dr. Rippon (1751-1836), Minister of New Park Street Baptist Chapel, London), it is headed The Spiritual Coronation, Cant. iii. II. Perronet s line

Sinners whose love can ne er forget The wormwood and the gall,

is changed into Ye Gentile sinners, ne er forget.

Let every tribe and every tongue

That bound creation s call, Now shout in universal song,

The crowned Lord of all, is changed to

Let every kindred, every tribe

On this terrestrial ball, To Him all majesty ascribe,

And crown Him Lord of all.

Each verse has a heading, Angels,&quot; Martyrs, Converted Jews, Believing Gentiles, Sinners of every Age,&quot; Sinners of every Nation. A new verse is added, headed Ourselves

Oh that, with yonder sacred throng,

We at His feet may fall ; We ll join the everlasting song,

And crown Him Lord of all.

The Perronets were a French family who settled in England in 1680. The son of David Perronet became Vicar of Shoreham, Kent, in 1728, and was for thirty-nine years the trusted adviser of the Wesleys. Charles Wesley used to call him the Arch bishop of the Methodists. Edward Perronet was with Wesley at Bolton on October 18, 1749, when the mob packed the street in front of the house where Wesley was staying. After some time he ventured out. They immediately closed in, threw him down and rolled him in the mire ; so that when he scrambled from them, and got into the house again, one could scarce tell what or who he was. The mob soon burst into the house.

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