Majestic sweetness sits enthroned

Majestic sweetness sits enthroned.  Samuel Stennett* (1727-1795). Samuel Stennett was a friend of John Rippon*. This was one of the hymns that was first published in Rippon’s Collection of Hymns for the Use of Christians of All Denominations (1782). See JJ, p. 1092. In Rippon's Selection of Hymns* (1787) it was attributed to ‘Dr. S. Stennett’. It was entitled ‘Chief among Ten Thousand; or, the Excellence of Christ. Cant v. 10-16’ [The Song of Solomon, 5: 10-16]. Although ‘the chiefest among ten thousand’ occurs in verse 10, the hymn itself is a remarkably free rendering of the scriptural passage. It had nine stanzas, beginning: To Christ the Lord, let every tongue:  Its noblest Tribute...