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O Lord! how excellent thy name!

Author: Grove Appears in 14 hymnals
O Lord! how excellent thy name!

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O Lord, how excellent is thy name

Author: Grove Hymnal: A Selection of Sacred Poetry #68 (1812) Topics: The Works of God Celebrated Languages: English
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O Lord, how excellent is thy name

Author: Henry Grove Hymnal: Ethic Hymns and Scriptural Lessons for Children #d78 (1868) Languages: English
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Author: Henry Grove Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship (2nd ed. Enl. and Imp.) #97 (1824) Languages: English
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Henry Grove

1683 - 1738 Author of "O Lord, how excellent is thy name" Grove, Henry, 1683-1738. Presbyterian minister at Taunton, his birthplace, and conductor of a Dissenting Academy there, a contributor to Addison's Spectator (Nos. 588, 601, 626, and 635), and author of An Essay towards a Demonstration of the Soul's Immateriality, 1718; A Discourse of Secret Prayer, 1723; Some Thoughts concerning the Proofs of a Future State from Season, 1730; Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 1739, including his Spectator papers; A System of Moral Philosophy, 1749, published by Dr. Amory, after his death, and various other works. There are two hymns of his in Pope's Collection, 1760:— 1. 0 Lord, how excellent thy name. God the Creator. 2. Before the Lord our Maker we. God the Preserver. (1) is in Kippis and Martineau’s Hymns for the Christian Church and Home; a selection from (2) in Aspland, and another selection beginning with st. 3, "The starry hosts in order move," in the Supplement to Kippis and in Wallace. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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