44 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED
It is in twenty-six verses. In 1601 it was published in nineteen stanzas. Mr. Daniel Sedgwick said that the initials stood for Francis Baker Porter, a secular priest imprisoned in the Tower. In the Arundel Hymns it is ascribed to Father Laurence Anderton (John Beverley, S.J.). This version is found in Williams and Boden s Collection (1801), designed as a supplement to Dr. Watts s Psalms and Hymns. Its ver, 3 is
O when, thou city of my God,
Shall I thy courts ascend ; Where congregations ne er break up,
And Sabbaths have no end.
This is signed Eckington C. That collection was formed by the Rev. Joseph Bromehead, who took his degree at Oxford about 1772, and became Curate of Eckington, where he probably died after 1797.
James Montgomery printed a collection of hymns for the Eckington Church choir, and as a Moravian had requested him to rewrite the Dickson version of F. B. P. s hymn, this hymn is somewhat confidently ascribed to Montgomery, though a hymn-book of 1795 nas recently been discovered in which it is initialled B.
��Hymn 854. Sweet place ; sweet place alone !
SAMUEL GROSSMAN, B.D. (1624 ?-83).
The son of S. Grossman, of Bradfield Monachorum, in Suffolk. He was ejected from his living in Essex in 1662, but soon conformed ; became Prebendary of Bristol Cathedral, and was appointed Dean a few weeks before his death. He was buried in the south aisle of the cathedral. He printed two sermons preached in Bristol Cathedral on January 30, 1679 and 1680, the day of public humiliation for the execution of Charles the First.
In 1664 he issued a small pamphlet, The Young Man s Meditation; or, Some few Sacred Poems upon Select Subjects, and Scriptures. London : Printed by J. H. It contains nine poems, among which is My life s a shade, my days (see Wesleyan Methodist hymn-book, 1875) an d Sweet place, a poem on Heaven in two parts.
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