THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGIN. 147
more for its learning than for its poetic merit. For some of these particulars we are indebted to Walter Wilson s valuable MS. record, deposited at Dr. Williams s Library.
��JAMES FANCH,
1764. Vide under the following name.
DANIEL TURNER, M.A.
17101798.
DANIEL TURNER was born March 1st, 1710. He was originally a schoolmaster, but in 1748 he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Abingdon, Berkshire. He was the author of a work on the subject of full Christian communion among the churches of his own denomination, and of a work entitled " A Compendium of Social Religion. " His "Divine Songs, Hymns, and other Poems " bears date 1747. And his work "Poems Devotional and Moral " was privately printed in 1794.
" Jesus, full of all compassion," No. 551,
is an ardent, impassionate Bernard-like hymn. It is altered from the original. And there is another hymn by Turner in the " New Congregational Hymn Book," sufficient by itself to establish a reputation
" Beyond the glittering starry skies. Mo. 389.
It is somewhat altered, and erroneously attributed to Grigg. The authorship is proved in a note dated February 22nd, 1791, and inserted in the "Baptist Register." It is from Mr. Turner to Dr. Rippon, the editor, and is as follows : " As to your inquiry concerning the hymn, Jesus seen of Angels," it is true, as you were told by our good brother Medley, that one part of it
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