Joseph Hart

HART, Joseph. b. 1711 or 1712 (see below); d. London, 24 May 1768. Little is known of his early life, but he is believed to have rebelled against religion in his youth, and was an opponent of Christianity for part of his life, publishing a tract entitled The Unreasonableness of Religion (1741) in response to a sermon by John Wesley*. From being in opposition to Christianity, he underwent a ‘born again’ conversion after hearing a sermon on Revelation 3: 10 at the Fetter Lane Moravian Chapel, London, in 1757. Most of his hymns were written in the following two years and were published in his Hymns composed on Various Subjects. With a Preface, containing a Brief and Summary Account of the...

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