Through the love of God our Saviour

Through the love of God our Saviour. Mary Peters* (1813-1856). From Peters’s Hymns intended to help the Communion of Saints (1847), a book of hymns almost certainly written for the Plymouth Brethren (Peters had contributed hymns to an earlier PB book, Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1842). It has appeared in many collections, set to SOUTHGATE by Thomas Bishop Southgate (1814-1888) or to NUTFIELD by William Henry Monk*, contributed to A&M (1861) for ‘God, that madest earth and heaven’*. It is written in the same metre as that hymn, which Peters may have known. In some other books, such as MHB, it is set to AR HYD Y NOS, and more recently to EAST ACKLAM by Francis Jackson*. It was used...