Great God of wonders! all thy ways
Great God of wonders! all thy ways. Samuel Davies* (1723-1761).
Davies entitled this hymn ‘The Glories of God in pardoning Sinners’. It was first published in Hymns adapted to Divine Worship (1769), edited by Thomas Gibbons (1720-1785), the biographer of Isaac Watts*, entitled ‘The Pardoning God’.
It is based on Micah 7: 18: ‘Who is a god like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity…’. It is a fine example of the hymnody of the USA after the ‘Great Awakening’, the revivalist movement started in Northampton, Massachusetts as a result of the preaching of George Whitefield* and the ministry of Jonathan Edwards (whom Davies succeeded as President of the Presbyterian College of New Jersey).
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