Come, my soul, thy suit prepare

Come, my soul, thy suit prepare. John Newton* (1725-1807). In Olney Hymns (1779) this text is headed ‘Ask what I shall give thee’ and is the first of three on the same biblical text, 1 Kings 3: 5 (it is from Book I , ‘On select Passages of Scripture’, where the printer misplaced the heading of 1 Kings, so that it appears to be under 2 Samuel). In the early 19th century it appeared in Gadsby's hymns* (1814, and later editions), Edward Bickersteth*’s Christian Psalmody (1833), and in the Congregationalist Psalms, Hymns, and Passages of Scripture for Divine Worship (the ‘Leeds Hymn Book’, 1853). It was taken into the A&M repertoire in the Supplement (1889) to the Second Edition of 1875, in...