398 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED
This hymn was printed as early as 1743, as A prayer for those who are convinced of sin, at the end of The Nature, Design, and General Rules of the United Societies, and is found in most, if not all, the editions of that tract published during Wesley s life. It begins
O most compassionate High-Priest, Full of all grace we know Thou art ;
Faith puts its hands upon Thy breast, And feels beneath Thy panting heart.
Hymn 778. Thou whose almighty word.
JOHN MARRIOTT, M.A. (1780-1825).
His son says this hymn for Missions was written about 1813. It was printed in the Friendly Visitor, 1825, and in Lyra Britannica, 1867.
In the third verse the original reads, Bearing the lamp of grace, and in the fourth, Wisdom, love, might.
The Rev. John Marriott was son of the Rector of Cottesbach, near Lutterworth. He became tutor in the family of the Duke of Buccleuch, who presented him to the rectory of Church Lawford, Warwickshire. Whilst living in the duke s household he formed the friendship with Sir Walter Scott, which is com memorated in the dedication to him of the second canto of Marmion
For we had fair resource in store In classic and in Gothic lore : We mark d each memorable scene, And held poetic talk between ; Nor hill, nor brook, we pass d along But had its legend or its song.
His wife s health compelled him to live in Devonshire, and he died at Broadclyst, near Exeter. He was the father of Charles Marriott, whom Burgon describes as The Man of Saintly Life, in his Twelve Good Men.
Hymn 779. O that the Lord s salvation.
HENRY F. LYTE (7). Psalm xiv., The Spirit of the Psalms, 1834,
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