Disposer supreme, and Judge of the earth

Disposer supreme, and Judge of the earth. Jean-Baptiste de Santeuil* (1630-1697), translated by Isaac Williams* (1802-1865). De Santeuil’s Latin original began: Supreme quales, Arbiter Tibi ministros eligis, Tues opes qui vilibus Vasis amas committere. It appeared in the Cluniac Breviary of 1686, in de Santeuil’s Hymni Sacri et Novi (1689), and in later French Breviaries, including the Paris Breviary of 1736. Isaac Williams’s translation was published in the British Magazine (June 1836), and in his Hymns translated from the Paris Breviary (1839) with the heading ‘Commemoration of Apostles’. It was printed in six 8-line stanzas in the First Edition of A&M (1861) with alterations,...