Behold, where breathing love divine

Behold, where breathing love divine. Anna Letitia Barbauld* (1743-1825).  According to JJ, p. 132, this hymn was first found in her friend William Enfield*’s Hymns for Public Worship: selected from various authors, and intended as a supplement to Dr Watts’s Psalms (Warrington, 1772), and in Barbauld’s (then Lucy Aikin’s) Poems (1773). This is the hymn from which stanzas were taken to form the much better known ‘Blest is the man whose softening heart*. The full text of eight stanzas will be found in the entry on that hymn. In Britain it was included in various Unitarian books in Barbauld’s lifetime, notably Joseph Priestley’s Psalms and Hymns: for the Use of the New Meeting in Birmingham...