How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord.  Rippon's Selection of Hymns* (1787), author uncertain. This hymn appeared in the important Baptist collection by John Rippon*, A Selection of Hymns from the best authors, intended as an appendix to Dr Watts’s Psalms and Hymns (1787), in seven stanzas, headed ‘Exceeding great and precious Promises. 2 Pet. 3: 4.’ In the 1790 edition this is amended to ‘2 Pet. i. 4’, which is the correct reference. It was initialled ‘K.’ (‘K------’ in 1790). This has given rise to much speculation. The most common attribution is to Richard Keen, of whom nothing seems to be known; but he is favoured by JJ and others, on the grounds that the Presbyterian Alexander...