Our Ransom Paid

Author: John Fawcett

An orphan at the age of twelve, John Fawcett (b. Lidget Green, Yorkshire, England, 1740; d. Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, 1817) became apprenticed to a tailor and was largely self-educated. He was converted by the preaching of George Whitefield at the age of sixteen and began preaching soon thereafter. In 1765 Fawcett was called to a small, poor, Baptist country church in Wainsgate, Yorkshire. Seven years later he received a call from the large and influential Carter's Lane Church in London, England. Fawcett accepted the call and preached his farewell sermon. The day of departure came, and his family's belongings were loaded on carts, but the distraught congregation begged him to stay. In Singers and Songs of the Church (1869), Josiah Miller te… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Our sins on Christ were laid
Title: Our Ransom Paid
Author: John Fawcett
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

[Our sins on Christ were laid]


ST. THOMAS (Williams)

ST. THOMAS is actually lines 5 through 8 of the sixteen-line tune HOLBORN, composed by Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) and published in his Collection (1763, 1765) as a setting for Charles Wesley's text "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (570). The harmonization is by Lowell Maso…

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GORTON (Beethoven)

The tune GORTON derives from the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23, Opus 57 (1807); however, the arranger and any significance to the tune title are unknown. GORTON was published with this versification of Psalm 79 in the 1912 Psalter. Sing this tune in parts, beginning v…

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #132

The Chorister, and School Harmonist, 1st ed. #d90

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Manual of Devotion #31

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The Heart and Voice #238b

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New Hymn and Tune book #245c

The Association Hymn Book #d96

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #132

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Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship #296

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The Tribute of Praise #769

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The Christian Hymnal #S13

The Lesser Hymnal #d267

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The New Song #13a

The Imperial Harmony #d212

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Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church #312

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Gems of Gospel Song #42

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Precious Gems No. 1 #250

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Songs of Pilgrimage #718

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South #92

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New Hymn and Tune Book #245c

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Quartette #305

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The Otterbein Hymnal #126

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The Evangelical Hymnal #111

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