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Ambrose Serle (1742–1812) was an English official, diarist and writer of Christian prose and hymns.
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Ambrose Serle
| Short Name: | Ambrose Serle |
| Full Name: | Serle, Ambrose, 1742-1812 |
| Birth Year: | 1742 |
| Death Year: | 1812 |
Serle, Ambrose, a Commissioner in the Government Transport Office, was b. Aug. 30, 1742, and d. Aug. 1, 1812. He published Horae Solitariae: or Essays upon some remarkable Names and Titles of Jesus Christ, &c, 1786. In this work short hymns are appended to some of the articles, and of these, "Jesus commissioned from above" (Redemption), and "Thy ways, O Lord, with wise design" (Providence), have passed into several collections. Serle was also the author of other works. The Rev. E. Bickersteth published Selections from the Works of Ambrose Serle, in 1833.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Texts by Ambrose Serle (9) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes, there is One above who knows | Ambrose Searle (Author) | 3 | |
| Why, when storms around you gather | Ambrose Searle (Author) | 8 | |
| Thy ways, O Lord, with wise design | Ambrose Searle (Author) | English | 52 |
| O strange infirmity, to think | Ambrose Searle (Author) | 5 | |
| Kindly the Lord appeared | Ambrose Searle (Author) | 9 | |
| Jesus, commissioned from above | Ambrose Searle (Author) | English | 11 |
| How sweet on thy bosom to rest | Ambrose Searle (Author) | 20 | |
| Disdain not, O eternal King | Ambrose Searle (Author) | 3 | |
| Dicsérlek Uram tégedet | Ambrose Searle (Author) | Hungarian | 2 |
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