Browne, Simon, an English Independent minister
and contemporary of
Dr. Isaac Watts,
was born at Shepton Mallet, in Somersetshire,
about 1680; and died in 1732. He
was the pastor of a Church in Portsmouth
and later in London. While living in London
he published his original Hymns and
Spiritual Songs, 1720. He was also the
author of a number of prose volumes,
among them a Defence of Christianity.
Near the close of life he suffered from a
peculiar mental disease. He imagined that
God in his displeasure had gradually annihilated
in him the thinking substance--that
he had no reasoning soul. At the
same time he was so acute a disputant
that his friends said he could reason as if
he had two souls. In the old hymn books
a number of his hymns were in common use.
| And now, my soul, another year |
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