Clare Taylor

Clare Taylor. b. probably early 18th century, date unknown; d. February 1778. Her hymns were published by Daniel Sedgwick* in a small volume containing the hymns of John Ryland*, Clare Taylor, and Samuel Crossman*. The title of the Taylor section was Hymns composed chiefly on The Atonement of Christ, and Redemption Through His Blood (1765). This was followed by two quotations: ‘The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John 1. 7’, and another from the first stanza of Hymn I:  Victorious Lamb, of Thee I’ll sing, Of thy meek, lowly suffering,How Thou a servant’s love didst take,Whose Voice the heaven and earth shall shake.  According to Sedgwick, Taylor wrote 169 hymns,...

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