Jesus, my Lord, how rich thy grace

Jesus, my Lord, how rich thy grace. Philip Doddridge* (1702-1751). This was no. 188 in Doddridge’s Hymns founded on Various texts in the Holy Scriptures (1755), entitled ‘Relieving Christ in his poor Saints. Matt.xxv.40.’ This hymn was rewritten in the 19th century by Edward Osler*, an assistant editor to William John Hall* of Psalms and Hymns adapted to the Services of the Church of England (1836), also known as ‘The Mitre Hymn Book’*. Osler’s text began, ‘Fount of all good, to own Thy love’, the first line based on the opening of Doddridge’s hymn no 271, ‘Fountain of Comfort and of Love’. In turn this version was altered in a number of books (see JJ, p. 600), including a text beginning...