Saviour, who exalted high

Saviour, who exalted high. Richard Mant* (1776-1848). According to JJ, p. 997, this hymn was printed in ‘the 1864 Suppl. to the Ps. & Hys., &c., Bedford’, a reference to Psalms and Hymns selected for Public Worship in the Church of England [with a supplement] (Bedford, 1864). It consisted of stanzas from an irregular poem by Mant in four stanzas, found in Holydays of the Church; or Scripture Narratives of Our Blessed Lord’s Life and Ministry (1828). Another selection of stanzas began ‘Son of Man, to Thee I cry’*; this was described in JJ as ‘the popular form of this hymn’. The text beginning ‘Saviour, Who exalted high’ was used as the opening stanza of the version in the Revised...