I know that my Redeemer lives

I know that my Redeemer lives. Samuel Medley* (1738-1799). This inspiring Easter hymn exists in a number of different forms. It is a celebration of the risen Christ, and a meditation on the verse from Job 19: 25, ‘For I know that my redeemer liveth’. It was first published anonymously in two anthologies, George Whitefield*’s Hymns for Social Worship (21st Edition, 1775) and Richard De Courcy*’s Collection of Psalms and Hymns (Fourth Edition, 1793) (JJ, p. 556). It was published in Medley’s own posthumous collection, Hymns (1800), with five small alterations, including the substitution of ‘sweet passage’ for ‘sweet sentence’ in the first stanza. It had nine 4-line stanzas. The complete text...